Tag: Leroy Merlin

Owner of Leroy Merlin will hand over its Russian business to the management team

ADEO (France), owner of the DIY franchise Leroy Merlin, intends to hand over the governance of the Russian company to the local management team, as reported by RBC referencing a company representative. The RBC’s source emphasizes that this...

Russian Timber Journal 03-2023: interview with Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran; Russia exports almost no unprocessed timber; list of assignments given by the President of the Russian Federation as a follow-up to a meeting on the development of the Russian timber industry; China plans to increase plywood production capacity in 2023; Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests increasing the import duty on European furniture to 50%; owner of Leroy Merlin will hand over its Russian business to the management team; Governmental commission approved the sale of a share in Ilim by International Paper; large timber enterprises of the Tomsk Region are suspending production; Russian plywood output rose in February; Segezha Group sold its European assets that produce paper packaging; in 2022, the Russian export of wood and articles of wood dropped by almost one-fourth

Russian Timber Journal 03-2023: Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran: “From the financial and time perspective, a wood pellet line is the most lucrative kind of investment associated with recycling sawmilling waste”; in 2022, the volume of roundwood export...

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, on the implications of the roundwood export ban being introduced from 2022 onwards; Luzales plans to build an MDF plant worth 5 billion rubles; the Ministry of Industry and Trade may introduce a temporary ban on the export of particleboards from Russia; analysis of the current situation in the particleboard, laminated particleboard, MDF market

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: WhatWood interviewed Mr. Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, about the ban on the export of unprocessed timber to be introduced from 2022; Luzales agreed on the conditions for the construction of an MDF...

Sveza and Leroy Merlin agreed on direct supplies of plywood

Sveza Group signed a plywood supply agreement with Leroy Merlin, the largest DIY chain in Russia. For the company, this is the first direct contract with a retail client of such format. The volume of deliveries can amount...