Growth in sales of Christmas decorations and sex toys, MTS news, Wildberries, Tez Tour: the main thing for business December 17

Deal

• Wildberries market analysts noted an increase in demand for protective masks by 50% over the last week.

• MTS transferred the tower business to a separate legal entity with the former head of the MegaFon subsidiary, Alexander Teremetsky, as CEO.
• Tez Tour will refund canceled flights to Egypt from December 15-19 due to Jordan closing the sky to iFly planes, which had problems with insurance documents.
• The turnover of products for people over 18 years of age in the Russian markets has grown hundreds of times since the beginning of the year in the most popular categories: in Wildberries by 550-760%, in Ozon by up to 3328% (Moneyplace analysis).
• The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation will verify the activities of Wildberries in the statement on the groundlessness and lack of transparency of the company’s fines against sellers (the supplier does not know all the terms of the contract, the fines are not reflected in the documents on tariffs and the offer, and its amount is not formed in a transparent way).

• The Zen.News platform was included in the news aggregator registry along with Novosti@MailRu, Rambler/news and SMI2.

Russia

• The Russian government has extended until the end of 2023 the measures to support the labor market and prevent unemployment in the face of sanctions.

• The Cabinet of Ministers will also allocate 6 billion rubles to support the air traffic management system. Russian businessmen demanded that the EU court lift the blocking sanctions.

• The Government of the Russian Federation will also allocate another 10 billion rubles to support preferential leasing for farmers.
• In 2022, 23% of potential clients postponed or postponed the purchase of real estate, this is higher even than the 20% in the pandemic year of 2020 (Oro Analytics).
• Before the New Year 2023, Russians spend 11% more than a year ago, an average of 1,732 rubles each (see index analysis).

• At the same time, Russians buy 2.2 times more tickets for children’s Christmas trees (despite a 17% increase in their cost) due to the reduction in concerts for adults.

• In addition, in the pre-New Year bustle, bank clients in December (compared to November) increased the number of money transfers by 24%, the average amount was 11.8 rubles (Russian standard).
• The tax revenue of companies in the food industry in Moscow in January-October increased by 40% compared to the same period last year.

• India’s tea exports increased by 16% in the first nine months of 2022.

foreign business

• Virgin Atlantic said it will make the first green (zero emissions) transatlantic flight from London to New York next year.
• The US banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to lay off several thousand employees (Reuters).
• Elon Max promised to remove the blocking of the accounts of journalists who tracked his location.
• Alex Stamos, the former head of the Facebook security service (owned by Meta, recognized as an extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), is sure that Elon Musk could lose control of Tesla if the shares do not rise again: “activist investors ” you can buy them cheaply.

• At the same time, Musk’s team is busy with Twitter: They’re looking for new investors amid declining ad revenue.

• And Tesla, by the way, plans to announce the construction of a plant in Mexico next week (Bloomberg).

• Dropbox acquires FormSwift for $95 million to expand the capabilities of its service. This is not the largest of the company’s 28 small start-up acquisitions in recent years.