MERLION was included in the Top-50 of RAEX-600 rating "Russia's largest companies by sales volume"

RAEX Agency (RAEX-Analytics) has published its annual rating "Russia's largest companies by sales volume" (RAEX-600). MERLION has been in the rating for 16 years (since 2005), and this time, showing a growth rate of 34.2%, it moved up 15 positions to position number 42. In the industry ranking "10 largest companies in the wholesale trade of the Russian Federation," MERLION has moved up one position and become number 2.

The main criterion for compiling the rating of the 600 largest companies of Russia (RAEX-600) based on the results of 2020 is the indicator characterizing the volume of sales of products (works, services) in 2020. The rating has almost no restrictions in terms of industry; the list includes companies from almost all major sectors of the economy (non-state pension funds (NPFs) and leasing companies have been included in the rating starting from 2017). Positions of companies in the rating were determined by ranking them by the volume of sales of products (works, services) in 2020.

The authors of the rating report that Russian big business lost almost 5.5 trillion rubles in 2020: that is how much the total revenue of the participants in the twenty-seventh annual rating of RAEX-600 decreased (to 90.2 trillion rubles, or 5.9% for the year). "This is only the second time in the history of the rating that we have seen a drop in revenues in rubles. The first time it happened as a result of the crisis year of 2009," notes Dmitry Grishankov, General Director of the RAEX-Analytics agency. "But then the losses of the business leaders in percentage terms were smaller than now: the decline in the total turnover of the participants of the rating in was 2.1% in 2009, and 5.9% in 2020." There is another notable difference between these two rankings (to be more precise, the crises that have affected the rating participants): in the current list, we clearly see not the usual division into more and less affected by the past economic turmoil, but a division into those who have suffered losses and those who have grown markedly during the crisis." Thus, it is noted that "Food import substitution (although among other things) has become the basis of success for a trade, which has shown a marked increase in turnover in the current rating: by 13% for retail and 11.2% for wholesale."

It is noteworthy that recently the results of the annual Forbes ranking "200 Largest Private Companies in Russia" were published, where MERLION was at number 28.