Ruslan Semenyuk, Chairman of the Board of Luzales, in an interview with the RBC online broadcast judicial Date of agreement for the purchase of IKEA factories in Russia.
According to Semenyuk, the asset purchase agreement took about six months. His close friends forced him to apply for the acquisition, after which a working group was formed in Luzales, which began to contact representatives of the Swedish Ingka Group, which owns the IKEA retail chain.
As the head of the Luzales company said, when controlling the buyer of the Swedish furniture giant, they were interested in the origin and legality of the organization’s money, its belonging to the industry and the intention to retain its team of employees. “They were actually concerned that a company from the timber industry didn’t buy[an asset]for resale tomorrow,” he said.
Semenyuk in the second half of February declaration About Luzales’ plans to retain all jobs for employees of two factories of the Swedish company IKEA after the acquisition is complete.
Last week, Izvestia newspaper referred to a report by the Furniture and Woodworking Industrialists’ Association. Wrote on the proposal to increase the tax on wood and upholstered furniture from 8.5-12% to 50% as a retaliatory sanction against hostile countries.