"Red & White"

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Red & White is a Russian alcohol retailer and self-service chain of stores of the same name. The network positions itself as “shops at home”. The headquarters is located in Chelyabinsk. The chain stores operate in 74 constituent entities of the Russian Federation from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin.

The average retail area of the store is 70 m2. The range of each store includes more than 1500 items of goods. All stores are connected to the Unified State Automated Information System (UGAIS).

The retailer operates in the ultra-convenience format and is the largest player in this segment with a market share of 43%. This share is approximately six times larger than that of the second largest member of the segment.

Financial performance and development of the company
In the early 1990s, the owner of the network S. P. Studennikov founded SPS-holding, engaged in the distribution of alcohol and tobacco. The first Red & White store was opened in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region on August 11, 2006. The name of the store, according to Studennikov, appeared as follows: For the older generation, red is wine, white is vodka. It is red and white wine, of course. In the same year, the chain expanded to 8 stores, in 2007 - to 38 stores.

The founding of the company coincided with a shortage of alcohol on the shelves due to the introduction of the electronic accounting system USAIS and a ban on imports from Moldova, and the new format of small specialty discount stores with a wide range of alcohol was in a winning position.

In 2014, the network included 1700 stores in 27 regions, and revenue amounted to 47 billion rubles. (2011 – 10 billion rubles, 2012 – 18 billion rubles, 2013 – 29 billion rubles).

In July 2015, there were more than 2.5 thousand stores in the Krasnoe & White chain in 39 regions. In the same 2015, the network “Red & White” took the seventh place in the ranking of the fastest growing companies in Russia, based on financial results for 2011-2014.

In 2016, the Red & White chain became the winner of the annual Russian Retail Awards in the nomination “Fast-Growing Company of the Year. Food”.

As of February 1, 2017, the company's network included 3,957 stores, opening more than 850 stores in 40 regions of Russia in 2016. More than 1,000 of them are in the Ural Federal District. In September 2017 – more than 4.7 thousand stores. The turnover of the company for 2017 amounted to 210 billion rubles.

In September 2018, the chain numbered 6,683 stores in 56 regions of the Russian Federation and took the 2nd place in the ranking of the top 10 FMCG networks in Russia in terms of the growth rate of the number of stores in the first half of 2018. In September 2019, the chain had 8141 stores.

At the end of 2018, the company's revenue grew by 40% and amounted to 301 billion rubles, the network entered the top 5 retailers by revenue. As of January 1, 2019, the chain had 7,347 stores.

As of September 1, 2020, the chain had 8712 stores.

As of September 1, 2021, the chain had 9,793 stores in