CEO: Wildberries to invest 9 bln rbl in firm’s major hub in Siberia

NOVOSIBIRSK, Aug 29 (PRIME) -- Marketplace Wildberries will build its largest, 9 billion ruble logistics center in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, which will create 7,500 jobs, the retailer’s founder and General Director Tatyana Bakalchuk and the region’s Economic Development Minister Lev Reshetnikov said on Tuesday.

“It will be the largest facility in Siberia…This year we should build the first 50,000 square meters and the rest next year….It is the first warehouse where we apply a new technology, it will be 24 meters high. This is our first construction of such a scale,” Bakalchuk said.

With opening of logistics centers, local businessmen more than triple their sales, she added.

Reshetnikov said the center may be launched at the end of 2024. According to the project’s plan, the construction of a distribution complex will finish at the end of 2025.

(95.4717 rubles – U.S. $1)

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