X5 Retail Group, one of the leading Russian food retailers, announces the opening of a second distribution center (DC) in the Nizhny Novgorod region. New warehouse space is located in, Dzerzhinsk and will focus on service trade networks "Crossroads" and "Carousel" in Nizhny Novgorod and Kirov oblasts, the republics of Chuvashia and Mari-El. The operator of the project was "Sweet life"that owns warehouse complex with a total area of 44 000 sq m

In the framework of the approved strategy of development of the logistics trade networks X5 for 2015 - 2017, the warehouse will serve the stores with a wide range, including a high proportion of products of local suppliers. RC "Dzerzhinsk" handles goods of different categories: "groceries", "drinks", "fresh", "frost", "related and non-food items is just about 11 000 items. Taking into account the plans X5 increasing centralization warehouse will process more than 15,000 products, including the products of local suppliers.

To do this, X5 in the Nizhny Novgorod region was one of the centers, located in Kstovo. Now RC "Kstovo" will focus only on trading network "Pyaterochka". Today in Nizhny Novgorod and Kirov oblasts, the republics of Chuvashia and Mari-El has 9 Karusel hypermarkets, 25 Perekrestok supermarkets and 452 Universam "Pyaterochka". New storage capacity will allow the X5 to actively develop in the region of the trading network "Perekrestok", "Karusel", "Pyaterochka", to expand the pool of local suppliers, to reduce logistics costs, optimize business processes for uninterrupted supply shops are a variety of assortment. Special emphasis in the formation of a range trade networks make on products categories "fresh", which gives additional opportunities for regional suppliers for cooperation with the X5 Retail Group.

RC "Dzerzhinsk" second logistics project within the strategy division logistics trade networks of the Company. September 12, Rostov-on-don was opened RC "Rostov", service-oriented shopping network "Pyaterochka", and the current RC "don" focused on the shopping network "Crossroads" and "Carousel". In the near future the Company plans to open a new RC class "A" in the Voronezh region.