Rustam Minnikhanov meets Director General of the Wildberries Company Tatyana Bakalchuk

On 25 March at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Director General of the Wildberries Company Tatyana Bakalchuk discussed issues of further development of cooperation including a possibility of establishing a center where all most in-demand goods will be localized.

At the meeting Tatyana Bakalchuk stated: ”We have analyzed the results and can see that sales of Tatarstan manufacturers are escalating at the marketplace. We can see how some brands reach nearly 300 per cent a year. So an idea leaped into our minds to establish a huge cluster so that both local manufactures as well as those from other regions can “land” there.”

It was said that today there is a task of localization of the most in-demand goods in Russia. And Tatarstan as a region with its advantageous location, well-developed transport and logistics infrastructure and good conditions for doing business is considered as a site for such localization.

The regional Minister of Economy Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, the Entrepreneurs Ombudsmen Farid Abdulganiev, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin and other regional officials also took part in the meeting.

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The Russian marketplace Wildberries opened its distribution center in Ttarstan in 2019, which was the first center to be opened outside Moscow and St Petersburg.

On top of that Tatarstan was one of the first regions to place a bet of development of the Internet-trade market with more than 60 thousand personal accounts of traders of the republic having been registered at various marketplaces according to the results of 2023.