Russia initiated aggression against Ukraine in 2014. On February 24, 2022, it started a full-scale military invasion to the Ukrainian territory. This brutal war and military crimes of Russian troops caused a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine with thousands civilians killed and millions becoming refuges. As a reaction to this act of aggression, many international companies decided to leave the Russian market, while some others continue doing business there as usual. We track such decisions of companies and urge them to stop funding the war.
Hold off investments: company postponing future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing substantive business
Pausing InvestmentsReducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Scaling BackPause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
SuspensionClean Break: the company completely halting Russian engagements or exiting Russia
WithdrawalExit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exit CompletedTemporarily closed stores and paused all commercial activities in Russia and Belarus, promised to suspend operations in Russia. Tommy Hilfiger had running shops in the main shopping malls in Moscow and St Petersburg. 08.2023: The full name was changed from LLC "PEVIACH STORES RUS" to LLC "RETAIL EXCELENCE". Istomina Irina Vladimirovna is no longer the general director of the organization. Schukin Denis Alekseevich becomes the new CEO and founder of the organization. The record about the founders was deleted PRIVATE COMPANY WITH LIMITED LIABILITY "PVH B.V." and PRIVATE COMPANY WITH LIMITED LIABILITY "PVH EUROPE B.V.".
Promised to suspend retail business operation, e-commerce and close the stores. Made a donation to Red Cross but later there were proofs found that the company is continuing to sell its goods in Russia and "HUGO BOSS RUS" LLC is still active and received revenues in 2021-2022. Company HUGO BOSS RUS receives plenty of direct shipments from Hugo Boss AG as of March 31, 2023, based on the Russian customs data. A lot of transactions ~18k in a year. Promised to suspend retail business operation, e-commerce and close the stores. Stockmann became the buyer of the Russian business of the German clothing manufacturer Hugo Boss, which included 19 stores in Russia at the end of 2022. The deal, according to experts, could cost 800 million rubles, taking into account all the discounts. with a market value of the business of 1.8 billion rubles. Hugo Boss sold Russian business to wholesale partner Stockmann. "We can confirm that our Russian subsidiary has been sold to Stockmann JSC – a company belonging to one of Hugo Boss's long-standing wholesale partners in the country," Hugo Boss said. Neither party has disclosed financial terms of the deal, but Russia demands that foreign companies sell assets at discounts of at least 50%. Stockmann did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Russian corporate filings showed that the deal closed on Aug. 2 and that Stockmann JSC now owns 100% of Hugo Boss Rus with a nominal value of 40 million roubles ($470,588). Hugo Boss appears to be back, with two stores recently opened in the sprawling Evropeyskyi shopping center near Kyivskyi Station in Moscow, and more are said to be on the way. Despite the closure of outlets since the start of the war, B4Ukraine, a coalition calling on Western companies to sever ties with Russia, criticized Hugo Boss for continuing wholesale deliveries. This meant that the Russians were never truly without their beloved Boss. The firm said in a statement that it is "no longer present in Russia with its own legal entity", explaining that the reopened stores are managed by a former wholesale partner who bought the Russian subsidiary of Hugo Boss.
Suspended operations in Russia (including online and regular stores). 08.08.2024: Legal entity LLC "DANIEL WELLINGTON (RUSSIA)" was liquidated.
Temporarily suspended all commercial activity in Russia. (Between Russia and Ukraine, commercial activity includes e-commerce sites, two directly operated stores, three wholesale mono-brand stores, and about 100 multi-brand wholesale entities. Russian market estimated at <2% of company revenues). 16.10.2024: The legal entity MONKLER RUS LLC was liquidated.