“OBI Russia” will place its products on Ozon

At first, only a part of the store’s assortment will be displayed at Ozon; Then, up to 90% of the product line sold in the hypermarket will be displayed in the market, taking into account seasonal and large-sized items.

The delivery of all products from the chain’s supermarkets will be carried out through OBI’s own courier service, a market representative informed the publication. In the future, the partners plan to launch express delivery and the possibility of picking up orders at Ozon pick-up points.

The product will be sold under the OBI brand, despite the fact that in 2023 the German OBI GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG demanded that its Russian subsidiary be prohibited from using the international brand of the same name.

In January of this year, the German company filed a new lawsuit with the Moscow Region Arbitration Court against the former Russian divisions in the amount of 25 million rubles.
“Ask [об использовании бренда] with former German colleagues [находится] in the process of liquidation. We continue to work as “OBI Russia,” said a representative of the RBC network.

The Russian subsidiary of the OBI network, which began operating in 2003, came under the management of Boris Lubosic in April 2022 and three months later was sold to the GISK Max group of companies and businessman Josef Liokumovich for a symbolic fee of 1 euro. . Subsequently, the construction supermarkets became the property of businessman Valid Korchagin and companies associated with Senator Arsen Kanokov’s Sindika holding company. The chain currently has 25 hypermarkets, two stores less than at the beginning of 2022.