- Alfa Group
Infobox Company
name = Alfa Group
Альфа-Групп
type = Privateconglomerate
genre =
foundation = 1989
founder =Mikhail Fridman Pyotr Aven
location_city = flagicon|RUSMoscow
location_country =Russia
location =
locations =
area_served =Russia ,Ukraine ,Turkey ,CIS
key_people =Mikhail Fridman German Khan Alexei Kuzmichov Pyotr Aven
industry = Diversified investments
products =
services =
revenue = increaseUS$ 2,803,351,000 (2006)cite web
coauthors = PricewaterhouseCoopers Moscow
title = Alfa Group Annual Report 2006
publisher =Alfa Group
date =24 September 2007
url = http://www.alfagroup.org/298/reports.aspx
format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-03-23 ]
operating_income = increaseUS$ 1,790,920,000 (2006)
net_income = increaseUS$ 1,664,493,000 (2006)
assets = increaseUS$ 32,194,759,000 (2006)
equity = increaseUS$ 9,391,639,000 (2006)
owner =
num_employees =
parent =
divisions =
subsid =Alfa-Bank TNK-BP Altimo VimpelCom MegaFon
slogan =
homepage = http://www.alfagroup.org
footnotes =
intl = yesAlfa Group Consortium ( _ru. Консорциум «Альфа-Групп») is one of
Russia 's largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commodities trading, commercial and investment banking (Alfa Bank ), insurance, retail trade and telecommunications. The group was founded byMikhail Fridman (one of the most influential business leaders inRussia and one of theRussian oligarch s) andPeter Aven . The Consortium was built on Alfa-Eco, a trading company established in 1988 by Mr. Fridman. Its headquarters are inMoscow .Joint ventures
Alfa Group owns a share of Смирновъ (or "Smirnov Trading House"), the popular Russian
vodka .Diageo , the owner ofSmirnoff and Captain Morgan, is the other co-owner in the venture.Through its telecom arm
Altimo , it controls 32.9% of voting shares inVimpelCom , Russia's leading mobile operator, in par withTelenor .In April 2006 giant discount retailer
Pyaterochka ( listed on London's AIM market), announced a merger with the supermarket chain Perekryostok. Alfa Group, being Perekryostok's largest shareholder, is going to hold the controlling stake in this combined business.There are a number of current disputes regarding Alfa's claimed ownership of various stakes in telecoms companies.
References
External links
* [http://www.alfagroup.org/ Alfa Group official website]
* [http://www.alfagroup.ru/ Alfa Group official website]
* [http://www.teliasonera.com/externalarticlenm/?hier=12815&mainUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sonera.fi%2FpressProviderWeb%2Fresources%2Fjsp%2FProvider%2FgetArticle.do%3Flocale%3DEN%26articleId%3D17546 TeliaSonera initiates legal action against Russian Alfa Group] November 28, 2005
* [http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/news/news_story.ehtml?o=1694 Western Operators Warned to Beware Altimo's Business Record] December 14, 2005
* [http://www.kyivpost.com/business/general/26465/ Shareholder dispute could drive Kyivstar into technical default] April 11, 2007
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2405149.ece Telenor steps up fight on Altimo 'propaganda'] March 30, 2007
* [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_09/b4023070.htm Spies, lies and KPMG] February 26, 2007
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