IKEA sold its last assets in Russia

The assets became the property of the former top manager of the United Breweries group, created in the fall of 2023 on the basis of the Russian business of the Dutch brewer Heineken, Marta Seliverstova.

The legal entity JSC Mars, owned by Seliverstova, has now become the new founder of several legal entities that previously belonged to the Ingka Group: Ingka Centers Rus Property E, Ingka Centers Rus Property S and Ingka Rus II. Previously, among its founders was the Dutch Ingka Holding Europe BV.

According to the publication, Seliverstova acts in the interests of businessman Robert Uzilov, who previously purchased one of the last assets of the group in Russia – an IKEA distribution center with an area of ​​180 thousand square meters. m in Yesipovo, near Moscow. According to RBC, the businessman owns several warehouse complexes and logistics companies.

The newspaper’s interlocutors estimated the market value of all the land acquired by Uzilov from IKEA at between 630 and 750 million rubles, although their cadastral value is more than 1.6 billion rubles. The most expensive is the Ingka Centers Rus Property E site in the Leningrad region: in 2016, the company acquired 40 hectares there for the unsuccessful construction of the Mega Novoselye shopping center.

IKEA reduced its operations in Russia in March 2022. In 2023, the company sold most of its properties (megafactories and shopping centers) to Russian companies.