Trade and services

Recently, there has been a shortage of cork oak corks in Russia, which are used in champagne bottles. This is reported by Baza with reference to several wine producers at once.

The growth of parallel imports to Russia has led to a shortage of warehouses in the CIS countries, the volume of requests from Russian companies

In 2022, Israel became the world leader in vodka imports from Russia. The largest importer of Russian alcoholic beverage was named by RIA Novosti based on data from the UN Comtrade platform.

Bonduelle has officially announced its withdrawal from the Rusbrand business Association. It was assumed that the company would stop paying contributions as early as 2024. 

In 2022, the share of imports in the wholesale turnover of food products (including alcohol and tobacco) increased by 4.1 percentage points to 18.7 percent

Uralkali has announced the signing of a contract with the Indian importer of mineral fertilizers Indian Potash Limited (IPL) for the supply of potassium chloride.

PickPoint logistics service has decided to stop working in Russia.

The demand for instant printing cameras in Russia in 2022 decreased by 33% compared to the indicator for 2021, a total of 93.7 thousand such cameras were purchased last year.

The government commission has approved two documents allowing testing the online sale of Russian wine. 

Russian electronics importers, whose business has been seriously complicated by the consequences of the military actions in Ukraine, are developing a new market

Warehouses with electronics turned out to be overflowing in Russia, while sales of smartphones, tablets, wearable electronics and other

Shoe sales in Russia in 2022 decreased by more than 10%, the average price for it increased by 9.6%. This is stated in the annual review of the shoe industry prepared by the CRPT

The demand for household and household services (dry cleaning, repair and tailoring, cleaning) on the Avito Services platform in Russia in February 2023 increased by 79%

Sales of headphones and other wearable devices in Russia may fall both in the first quarter and in 2023 as a whole, according to electronics distributors.

In January and February 2023, the supply of semi-finished steel products of Russian production to China decreased three times compared to the same period last year in absolute terms