The bacchanalia lasted for almost
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2-3 months from Kazan to Ryazan (or vice versa). The operational planning horizon in business was one month, two months at most. Even Gazprom stopped thinking about strategic planning. It was in such “cheerful” conditions that the formation of consumer markets in the “new” Russia began. The situation in Russian business, however, could not be called deplorable,
since in the absence of competition and control (except for gangster control), the “profit margin” was 100%. And not per year, but per month! In addition, consumers, accustomed to the struggle for scarcity all their lives, did not understand the goods offered to them at all and made very low demands on their quality, and there was no system for protecting consumer rights.
three years, and then a depressive stabilization set in. Industry egypt cell phone number list stopped "collapsing", but there was no significant growth either. The ruble was "driven" into a currency corridor - from 4 to 6 thousand (this was long before the three zeros were written off) per dollar. The average salary reached 100 dollars a month, and in the spring of 1998 it exceeded 150. The average pension, when converted, was already "pulling" 30-40 dollars. Here, foreigners gradually
began to take an interest in our markets. Although their volumes remained microscopic by world standards. And Russian business and marketing began an apprenticeship period. Work in a representative office of a large international company, and then open your own business (trading). Or organize a representative office for a foreign company. Or lure a manager who worked in a transnational corporation. Or go on a tourist trip to the USA (or at worst to Poland) to observe how trade enterprises work there and organize something remotely similar in Russia. These are the main ideas of this period. Consumers still do not demand quality and pay almost no attention to the composition of the products offered to them.
since in the absence of competition and control (except for gangster control), the “profit margin” was 100%. And not per year, but per month! In addition, consumers, accustomed to the struggle for scarcity all their lives, did not understand the goods offered to them at all and made very low demands on their quality, and there was no system for protecting consumer rights.
three years, and then a depressive stabilization set in. Industry egypt cell phone number list stopped "collapsing", but there was no significant growth either. The ruble was "driven" into a currency corridor - from 4 to 6 thousand (this was long before the three zeros were written off) per dollar. The average salary reached 100 dollars a month, and in the spring of 1998 it exceeded 150. The average pension, when converted, was already "pulling" 30-40 dollars. Here, foreigners gradually
began to take an interest in our markets. Although their volumes remained microscopic by world standards. And Russian business and marketing began an apprenticeship period. Work in a representative office of a large international company, and then open your own business (trading). Or organize a representative office for a foreign company. Or lure a manager who worked in a transnational corporation. Or go on a tourist trip to the USA (or at worst to Poland) to observe how trade enterprises work there and organize something remotely similar in Russia. These are the main ideas of this period. Consumers still do not demand quality and pay almost no attention to the composition of the products offered to them.