Review of market tendencies

During the recent years the retail sales have been booming both in Russia, and in the majority of the CIS countries. On the background of positive tendencies in macroeconomic structural changes are being proceed in the retail branch - the share of unorganized trade is reduced, large network operators become stronger. Preconditions of the concentration processes are clear - the large companies possess greater opportunities due to a scale effect: they receive the best conditions of the credit resources attraction, the best operating conditions with wholesalers and manufacturers, concentrate the finance on the priorities directions, they have more opportunities to develop the long-term mutual relations with the consumer. As consequence, in branches there are active processes of merge and absorption, the new shopping centers are under construction, many networks actively develop system franchising. Annual growth of branch for the last few years has been staying on a mark of 20-25 percent owing to the growth of business of the largest companies - leaders of the branch: leaders have been showing the growth up to 40-50 percent annually. In the nearest years expansion of the large operators will proceed, both  the amounts of investments of the most successful companies in the new areas and the proceeding process of the international players output on the market can be the evidence of this process.