Svyaznoy named Davydovich’s successor as president of the company

Svyaznoy has appointed Maxim Onishchenko, a former top manager at Procter & Gamble and the Magnit retail chain, as its new president. Svyaznoy CEO Evgeny Davydovich announced his resignation from the company the night before.

The fact that Maxim Onishchenko became the new head of Svyaznoy is reported by Forbes. The publication recalls that since 2003 Onishchenko worked at Procter & Gamble and reached the regional manager. In 2011-2018, he held various positions at Magnit, including managing the Magnit Cosmetic chain of cosmetics, household chemicals and household goods stores.

The manager also worked in the Krasnodar supermarket chain Tabris (also represented in Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik and Sochi).

• At the end of 2020, Svyaznoy took 97th place in the ranking of the largest private companies according to Forbes. According to the SPARK system, the revenue of Set Svyaznoy LLC last year amounted to 102.15 billion rubles, of which almost 2.16 billion rubles was a net loss.

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On Monday, August 30, the ex-general director of Svyaznoy Evgeny Davydovich announced that he was leaving the company. After a short pause, he will take up new projects. Davydovich headed the company in 2015-2017 and returned to Svyaznoy in November 2019 after a two-year break. About how he had to manage a team of 23,000 people in the last crisis of 2020, Davydovich told the publisher The Bell and Russian Norms! Anfisa Voronina on Bell.Club Live.