X5 Retail Group N.V., a leading Russian food retailer, added 1,312 new Russian suppliers from 67 regions across seven Federal Districts and 114 new foreign suppliers under its direct import programme during 2018. The number of new partners grew nearly 1.5 times year-on-year, with X5 retail chains now offering products sourced from over 5,600 suppliers, corporate web page reported.
The largest number of new suppliers in 2018 came from the Central Federal District, with 576 suppliers (including 400+ partners registered in Moscow and the Moscow region). A substantial increase in the number of producers came from the Volga Federal District, with the Samara and Nizhny Novgorod regions accounting for the greatest shares of its 183 new partners. In the Northwestern Federal District, X5’s offering was boosted by 176 suppliers, including 89 from St Petersburg. Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Karusel stores welcomed 128 new partners from the Southern Federal District, with 69 suppliers coming from the Krasnodar Territory. The Siberian, Ural and North Caucasian Federal Districts contributed 121, 92 and 36 partners, respectively. In Siberia, the Novosibirsk region and Altai Territory led the pack.
By the end of 2018, in some regions the share of locally produced items in the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and Karusel stores exceeded 30%, with domestic produce making up over 90% of the current product mix in X5 Retail Group’s stores.