Ukraina attackerar ny rysk handelsjätte – lager i lågor
Den ukrainska militären genomförde i natt en attack mot regionen Samara i södra Ryssland, skriver Kyiv Independent. Drönare träffade bland annat ett stort lager tillhörande företaget Ozon, landets näst största e-handelsjätte, som började brinna.
De ryska myndigheterna uppger att flera personer skadats i det ukrainska angreppet. Den ryska guvernören nämner inte vilka anläggningar som träffats, men i området finns flera oljeanläggningar som Ukraina tidigare attackerat.
Ukraina anklagar Ozon för att sälja och transportera varor till den ryska armén. Sedan tidigare har liknande anklagelser och attacker riktats mot det stora företaget Wildberries.
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Wikipedia (en)
Ozon Holdings PLC is one of the first e-commerce companies in Russia, sometimes referred to as "the Amazon of Russia". Established in 1998 as an online bookstore, Ozon was one of the three biggest online retail platforms in the country by 2019. It was named as the #3 most valuable Russian internet company of 2020 by Forbes.
Ozon is part of Ozon Group, which also owns the online travel booking platform Ozon. Travel and a stake in Russia's largest digital bookstore Litres. The current chief executive officer of Ozon is Alexander Shulgin, who joined the company after serving as chief financial officer and later chief operating officer of Yandex.
In October 2020 it was reported that Ozon plans to hold an IPO in the United States that could value the company at $3-5 billion. In November 2020, Ozon went public on the Nasdaq in an IPO that valued the company at $6.2 billion. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nasdaq suspended trading in the company's securities and then announced its intention to delist. Ozon unsuccessfully appealed twice, and in October 2023 announced a voluntary delisting.
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