Bristol

The Russian network of alcohol markets, the second in the country by revenue. In 2018, the network was included in the ranking of the 50 fastest growing companies according to RBC, taking fourth place in it with an average annual positive revenue dynamics of 114% in 2015-2017. According to the Bain partner's assessment & This company accounts for 15-20% of the Russian market of specialty alcohol markets.

In 2019 , Bristol was acquired by the major grocery retailer Dixie.

History

Initially, the company existed as a chain of alcohol markets, but over time the product range was expanded (vegetables, fruits, groceries, etc.) and the company began to position itself as "shopping at home." Gradually, the share of alcoholic beverages was reduced to 30% of the total assortment.

The Bristol chain of stores was founded in 1992 by businessmen from Nizhny Novgorod Igor Saley, Valery Vasin and Aleksad Pyzhikov. Initially, the company was engaged in the sale of tobacco products.

In 1998, the development of its own retail network was started. By mid-1999, the company managed to open more than 120 of its own retail outlets.

In 2002, Bristol was a Moscow-based Megapolis company. At the time of the sale, the company occupied 60% of the tobacco market in Nizhny Novgorod.

In September 2002, Albion-2002 LLC was registered. Later, this company began to perform a management function over Bristol.

The Bristol alcohol market chain was founded in 2012 in Nizhny Novgorod. During the following years, an active development of the trade coverage of the Nizhny Novgorod region and neighboring regions of Russia followed.

In 2015, an attempt was made to merge Bristol and Dixie for the first time. Dixie South acquired 1/3 of Albion-2002 shares for 1.78 billion. However, due to the deterioration of the market shutdown and the ban of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, by the end of the year, a reverse sale for 1.83 billion rubles took place.

In the spring of 2016, the Bristol chain bought out a network of alcohol markets of Ulyanovsk LLC "Alcomarket Degree", which owned about 60 outlets in Ulyanovsk, Penza, Samara, Ivanovo. In the summer of the same year, the Bristol network acquired from its Nizhny Novgorod distributor of the Rastyapino group 274 alcohol markets under the Rastyapino and Kuban Wines brands, as well as several warehouses with a total area of 5 thousand m2 and 150 delivery service vehicles[11]. In 2017, the retailer bought the Ural chain of 144 alcohol markets "Seven Fridays".

In January 2019, it was reported about the merger of the Bristol, Red and White and Dixie companies into a single retail business. In April 2019, the Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the merger of three companies.