Maxim owner. Businessman Yevnevich will donate his "United Capital"? "Time of theatrical legends"
A mathematician by education, he also acts with mathematical calculations in business: his tea company Orimi Trade and the Maksidom chain of stores with household goods are the largest in the country. This winter, Alexander will once again take part in the Christmas ABC charity auction, where he bought the painting Snowstorm by Valentina Matvienko last year.
Tell about your parents.
Both mom and dad were born in rural families, graduated from institutes and took place as major leaders. My father headed various enterprises of the region, his last position was the director of the motor depot. Mom was the head of the trade union organization, now she is a pensioner - she digs beds and raises great-grandchildren. Their lives were, of course, affected by the war. Mom lived near Minsk, it was relatively calm there: the partisans acted inactively, respectively, there were no punishers. True, for several weeks a year she also hid in the forest - during periods when the Germans recruited teenagers to be sent to Germany to work. And my father was near Vitebsk, in places with a strong partisan movement and, as a result, with fascist cleansing and arson of villages.
What do you think you learned from them?
My parents instilled in my sister and me a reverent attitude towards both our own and other people's work. From childhood, we worked in the garden, looked after rabbits and piglets, and cleaned the apartment. By the end of school, I already had a license and knew how to drive cars, trucks, and even a tractor.
How and what did you study?
I came from Belarus to Leningrad and graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Leningrad State University. But my education did not end there. Back in university days, I worked part-time at a construction site and had to master construction specialties. Then, when I got a job at the Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, I had to teach soil mechanics and other applied sciences. Before going into business, I mastered accounting and the basics of jurisprudence. And finally, humanitarian self-education. You know, I reread classical literature with great pleasure: Dostoevsky, Leskov, Gogol, Turgenev. The perception of the same works in school years and today is diametrically opposed. Now I am in awe of them.
How did you earn the first big money?
In 1992, I had four thousand dollars. And for the first time in my life we went with my son to Austria to ski on them. They returned with a debt of one hundred dollars. So I started not even from scratch, but from a minus. I started an international payments consulting company. We helped develop schemes that minimize taxation within the framework of the law. And by the beginning of 1994, I had earned my first hundred thousand dollars.
And they founded Orimi Trade.
Yes. We bought simple food products and delivered them to Siberia and the Urals. One such product was Kandy Princess tea. Gradually sales of tea increased, and by 1997 we had become a specialized tea company with about ten percent of the market. We did not have outstanding tea, it was the same as everyone else, but we sold it for five to ten percent cheaper. Our costs were much lower, and this allowed us to keep prices lower. This is an important component of success, but not the only one, of course. The most important thing is a team of like-minded people. In 1999, we started building our own production. And today our tea-packing factory in the Leningrad region is the largest in Eastern Europe.
And how did "Maxidom" appear?
The first "Maxidom" is located on Grazhdansky Prospekt. Previously, there was a laboratory where there was a model of the complex for protecting Leningrad from floods. There, in the basins, they studied how, depending on the wind and current, the dam affects the waters of the Gulf of Finland. And so in November 1996, my partners and I came up with the idea to create in this house a huge supermarket for home and renovation goods, like B&Q in England. And soon the first check was broken at the checkout of the new store. This experience turned out to be so successful that on New Year's Eve people stood in queues at the Maksidom cash desk for an hour and a half. We were terribly uncomfortable - in the shortest possible time, instead of eight cash registers, we made twelve, then sixteen. The beginning inspired us so much that in August 1998, when the peak of the crisis came, we started building another supermarket - on Moskovsky Prospekt, in an unfinished building where there was not even a roof or windows. In the summer of 1999, the second Maksidom opened. I think this was the beginning of the history of the trading network. Because one store is a “test of the pen”, it could also turn out to be unsuccessful. The second meant that we were satisfied with the first and moved on.
How do you build relationships with the authorities?
In all the companies I'm talking about, there is an immutable rule: we cooperate with the current government. Of course, the one who finances the elections then wins many times in business, but we have chosen a different path. We made ourselves from scratch and do not participate in any election campaigns.
Wouldn't you like to become a politician yourself?
Everything is good on time. I'm almost fifty years old. A political career should start at twenty or thirty. At fifty, having a certain status in business, obviously above average, starting with the basics in politics is already ... boring.
You have awards from the church. Are you a religious person?
When it was necessary to restore the temple in the village where I graduated from school, I helped and was noted for this by the Belarusian Orthodox Church. My parents are baptized people. But when I was little, my mother worked as a secretary of the district party committee, and I was not baptized. And to do this now for the sake of tradition is not particularly desirable. The Orthodox hierarchs I respect are happy to baptize me, but I must mature for this. Today I am a sympathizer. However, not only Orthodoxy: I treat absolutely all religions of the world with understanding. If a billion people in India or China profess some kind of doctrine, I cannot say that, unlike us, they deviate from the truth. The core values are the same for everyone.
The future entrepreneur spent his childhood in Belarus. There he graduated from the correspondence mathematical school, and in 1976 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanov.After graduation, a long period of work followed at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. B.E. Vedeneev, where he worked from 1981 to 1994 and held the positions of engineer, researcher, head of the sector, and was also the Deputy General Director for Economics.
In 1994, together with Sergey Kasyanenko and Dmitry Varvarin, he founded Orimi Trade. The business started with the supply of products, but soon the partners focused on the main direction - the tea trade. In 2000, they acquired their own production.
In 1996, together with his colleagues, he decided to create a supermarket on Grazhdansky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, where household goods would be sold. This was the beginning of the construction of a network of hypermarkets "Maksidom".
Since 1997 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maksidom LLC.
In 2011, he became the main owner of the small St. Petersburg bank United Capital. The priority direction of the bank's business is lending and servicing corporate clients.
The entrepreneur also pays great attention to social activities. He sponsors the Leonhard Euler Mathematical Foundation, established at St. Petersburg State University.
He took 23rd place in the "Ranking of billionaires DP - 2015". The state was estimated at 38.43 billion rubles. Main assets: Maksidom, Orimi Trade, United Capital Bank.
He took 19th place in the "Ranking of billionaires DP - 2016". The state was estimated at 46.1 billion rubles. Main assets: Maksidom (75%), Orimi Trade (45.7%), United Capital Bank (65%).
He took 21st place in the "Ranking of billionaires DP - 2017". The state was estimated at 51.98 billion rubles. Main assets: Maksidom, Orimi Trade, United Capital Bank.
The Maksidom chain intends to build a new hypermarket and redesign the buildings of the plant named after. Kalinin in St. Petersburg under the business center. This will cost the company at least 5 billion rubles. source.
According to company representatives, 1.4 billion rubles will be spent only on the construction and launch of the hypermarket. The rest of the amount will be needed to buy out the property of the plant for the purpose of its subsequent use, since in 2016 the retailer purchased only the land plot of the enterprise on Vasilyevsky Island.
In general, the costs are not small. Meanwhile, the turnover of Maksidom LLC is only 17 billion rubles, and the profit in 2016 was only 1.1 billion rubles. So where does the money for such chic come from?
The unfortunate banker and the tea factory.
Of course, Maksidom is not Evnevich's only business. Maybe he draws money for this project from others? But it is worth looking at the most popular of them, and you can immediately understand that this is not so.
The structure of Alexander Evnevich's assets.
Orimi Trade LLC is known as the owner of the Princess Nuri brand and the Nevskiye Porogi factory, which produces this tea. And things are not going too smoothly for the company - revenue is growing, profits are falling. So, with revenue of 45 billion rubles in 2016, net profit amounted to only 4 billion rubles. And this trend has continued for more than a year, which usually indicates mistakes in the company.
But the fact remains that it is unlikely that all the profits from the tea business were combined with the profits from the trade in household goods and allowed into the new hypermarket. So the money came from somewhere else. What is Evnevich hiding in his bosom? Ah, the bank!
Legs seem to really grow from here. Bank "United Capital", apparently, is not very good at all. Assets show a sharp drop: the bank lost almost 8 billion of highly liquid assets over the past year (19.67 billion against 11.99 billion rubles as of December 1, 2017). At the same time, current liabilities are actively increasing – by 3.3 billion rubles. High liquidity does not cover them (11.99 billion rubles against 20.48 billion rubles), so the bank's stability is a big question mark.
The bank's expert reliability has almost halved over the year, and although the figure is now within the normal range, the trend seems to be beginning to terrify the owners. Well, what did they want? The ratio of "other securities" to sources of equity is 316.7%! This means that the bank probably has problem assets. And they are likely not few. How does Mr. Yevnevich plan to extinguish them? Unknown.
But the most interesting trend is the reduction of capital adequacy ratios. For the year they fell by almost a third. What are we developing for? It looks like the "United Capital" is simply "vacuuming" the market, collecting money in anticipation of imminent death.
By the way, in March and August 2017, there was a significant amount of funds held at the cash desk - experts do not exclude that this may be due to with questionable transactions. For example, on the withdrawal of funds.
And what? There is a bank that has about a year left to live, and even less if the Central Bank becomes interested in it in time. Why not take everything you can out of it and invest in a promising business? And depositors will probably be killed when there is nothing to pay their deposits. It looks like the Central Bank should take an interest in United Capital before Yevnevich actually merges bank capital with the new hypermarket. Because it will most likely be built with the money of the bank - and, of course, depositors.
"Princess Nouri" for the lord!
However, if Yevnevich “throws” someone, it seems that no one will be surprised. Because he built his tea business not at all on Buddhist traditions, but on real blood itself.
In glossy magazines and biographies, the businessman does not tell how he got the assets of Orimi-Trade. The company was owned by Dmitry Varvarin in the 90s, he was also its founder. Sergey Krizhan was his partner and good friend. The first was shot in the head. The second was killed along with his entire family - the jeep was riddled with automatic bursts. The enterprise was divided when the corpses had not yet had time to cool down, and the killers, as usual, were not found.
Is Evnevich not shy about looking people in the eye?
The list of assets, by the way, included a myriad of wealth: Petrolesport, the White Sea-Onega Shipping Company, the Salombalsky Machine-Building Plant, several large regional timber complexes in Karelia and the Arkhangelsk region, including the Onega Timber Holding, the tea business ... Evnevich took over woodworking and furniture production . The tea business went to another top manager of Orimi, Sergey Kasyanenko.
It was with the assets of Orimi that the Maxidom, born in 1997, grew. Later, the company lost both Petrolesport and the shipping company. Then a quarrel with the authorities of the Leningrad region and Karelia left the enterprise without a forest. And then Evnevich found a "roof" in the so-called shadow government of St. Petersburg. In particular, he was caught in extremely warm relations with the authority of the Tambov organized crime group Vladimir Kumarin-Barsukov.
Most of all, Petersburgers were perplexed when on Malaya Konyushennaya, directly opposite the Kazan Cathedral, a monument to Gogol appeared ... with the face of authority! Needless to say, it was Evnevich who made and installed the work of art with own money?
Then Kumarin was arrested and people who sincerely did not like, or even were afraid of Evnevich, waited with hope until they would come for him. But it didn't work out. As a result, all that was left for him was the Orimi assets withdrawn into Maksidom, as well as the tea-packing factory and Princess Nouri ...
You probably won't earn much on tea. And killing someone with impunity is no longer as easy as before. And now Yevnevich is letting his small bank, and with it the depositors, use rags to close the "leak" in Maksidom.
The future entrepreneur spent his childhood in the village of Beshenkovichi in Belarus. There he graduated from the correspondence mathematical school, and in 1976 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanov.After graduation, a long period of work followed at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. B.E. Vedeneev, where Alexander Anatolyevich worked from 1981 to 1994 and held the positions of engineer, researcher, head of the sector, and was also deputy general director for economics.
In 1994, Alexander Evnevich decided to leave the research institute and start his own business. So, he became one of the founders and CEO of the Orimi Trade tea company, which by 1997 managed to win 10% of the market, and by 1999 had established its own production. Today "Orimi Trade" is one of the largest tea companies in Russia.
In 1996, Alexander Anatolyevich, together with his colleagues, decided to create a supermarket on Grazhdansky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, where household goods would be sold. This was the beginning of the construction of a network of hypermarkets "Maksidom".
In 1997 he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maksidom LLC. He holds this post at the present time.
The entrepreneur also pays great attention to social activities. He sponsors the Leonhard Euler Mathematical Foundation, established at St. Petersburg State University.
(10) Petersburg billionaire. The main owner of the Maksidom DIY network and Orimi Trade Group of Companies
"Biography"
The future entrepreneur spent his childhood in the village of Beshenkovichi in Belarus. There he graduated from the correspondence mathematical school, and in 1976 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanov.
"News"
Coca-Cola has found a buyer for its plant in the Moscow region
The St. Petersburg network of construction hypermarkets Maksidom is preparing to buy a plant owned by Coca-Cola in Kotelniki near Moscow. An American company has been trying to get rid of a non-core asset that has become a non-core asset for three years
"Maksidom" is a Russian network of hypermarkets of goods for home improvement, summer cottages and construction, headquartered in St. Petersburg. Member of the board of directors and co-owner of Maksidom, Maria Evnevich, confirmed to RBC the fact of negotiations on the purchase of the Nidan Juice plant, owned by the American Coca-Cola Co. If the deal goes through, a Maksidom hypermarket will be opened on the territory of the plant, Yevnevich specified. She did not name the possible amount of the transaction and its terms.
Alexander Evnevich: "We believed in success"
The first "Maksidom" could become a clothing market or a factory for the production of blinds. And it became the first hypermarket not only in St. Petersburg, but in Russia in general, offering customers a huge selection of 40 thousand items of goods for home and repair. In 2017, the chain, which already has eight stores in St. Petersburg and five in other regions, celebrates its 20th anniversary. About how it all began, how the DIY market in the country has changed over the past 20 years, and about the prospects for the development of the company, Alexander Evnevich, the founder and co-owner of Maksidom, tells.
The United Capital bank of Alexander Evnevich filed a claim for 163 million rubles against Arena JSC
United Capital Bank is owned by the Orimi Trade group of Alexander Evnevich (No. 19 in the Rating of Billionaires "DP" - 2016) and Sergey Kasyanenko (No. 39). The chairman of the board of the bank, Vera Marikhina, noted that Arena's debt, the total amount of which is now about 424 million rubles excluding interest, looked unproblematic at the time of the cession. “But after the transaction, it suddenly turned out that 51% of the borrower's shares were under arrest at the suit of VTB,” she said. According to her, the bank not only reduced the rate on redeemed loans from 24 to 19% per annum, but also issued new loans - for 55 million in 2015 and 70 million - in 2016 at even lower rates. The company gave away the first of them, and the second, provided with already built real estate in the first or third phases of the residential complex, carefully serves. But on two old loans secured by apartments in houses under construction, payments stopped in the fall of 2016.
Who will pay for the road to the hypermarket
The retailers themselves differed in their assessments of the bill. Thus, Maria Evnevich, a member of the board of directors of the Maksidom chain, considers the government's initiative a "tax on IKEA." Roads made at the expense of the state are only available to large, often foreign, retailers who have concluded investment agreements with the regions, she says. But the majority of domestic networks either build parking lots and access roads themselves, or buy sites with existing infrastructure. “We never had to hope that someone will do something for us,” emphasizes Maria Evnevich.
"Time of theatrical legends"
Favorite songs from films and performances performed by the legendary theater and film actor Dmitry Pevtsov and his orchestra were enjoyed by business owners and top managers of leading companies in St. President of the Russian Football Union Boris Vakhrushev, General Director of the pharmaceutical company Cytomed Alexander Khromov, Member of the Board of Directors of Maksidom Maria Evnevich, Director of the branch of OGK-2 Kirishskaya GRES Yury Andreev, Head of the IBM branch in St. Petersburg Andrey Ivashchenko, General Director construction company Legenda Intelligent Development Vasily Selivanov and many others.
"Maksidom" refused the director
link: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/ 1353646
General Director Sergey Golikov, who headed the company for more than 12 years, left the Maksidom chain of stores for household goods
General Director Sergey Golikov, who headed the company for more than 12 years, left the Maxidom chain of stores for household goods. According to the main owner of Maksidom, Alexander Evnevich, the decision to leave Sergei Golikov was discussed for about a year and the candidacy of a new leader has not yet been approved. Sergey Golikov says that his departure will negatively affect the work of the company. Sergei Golikov has not yet decided how to dispose of his five percent stake in the company. Experts believe that the cost of the package in market conditions can be up to $9.5 million.
As the main owner of the network, Alexander Evnevich, told Kommersant, on March 26, the general meeting of the founders of Maksidom LLC dismissed Sergey Golikov, general director, from his post. Sergei Golikov confirmed the termination of duties of the CEO of Maksidom through the press service of Maksidom.
link: http://www.spbgid.ru/index. php?news=198731
Maksidom loses its head
Maksidom opens its first hypermarket in Kazan
The St. Petersburg network Maksidom entered the market of building and finishing materials in Kazan. On July 3, she opened her first hypermarket in the region worth 870 million rubles. Market participants note that only OBI can compete with Maksidom here. Experts believe that the St. Petersburg network will be able to occupy about 5-10% of the Kazan market and recoup its investments earlier than the 10 years envisaged by the plan.
Alexander Evnevich, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maksidom LLC, told Kommersant that the total area of the Kazan hypermarket is 18.4 thousand square meters. m, trade - 12 thousand square meters. m. The land plot on which the building is located occupies 74.5 thousand square meters. The hypermarket is equipped with free parking for 570 cars. The volume of investments in the project amounted to 870 million rubles. Mr. Evnevich expects to recoup them in 10 years. "Maksidom", according to him, intends to compete with the main DIY-players (do it yourself - do it yourself. - "Kommersant") of the Kazan market and "sees its advantages in the assortment and pricing policy." The range of the hypermarket will amount to 60,000 goods, which is more than the market average. He kept silent about the share that the new player wants to occupy in the Kazan market. “The country is recovering from the crisis, the market is growing, and we expect that in the conditions of the growing market in the DIY sector of Kazan there will be enough space for everyone. Our entry into this market will not affect the revenue of competitors,” Alexander Evnevich believes.
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