ALIDI Expands Geography of Business

On October 2, 2017, ALIDI started distribution of Nestle products in five regions of Russia: the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Mari El and the Kirov Region.

New regions within the structure of the ALIDI group will form a new division called "Vostok". Its head office will be located in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, where ALIDI rent a modern logistic complex "Konstantinovsky" located 2.5 km to the east of the village. Konstantinovka.

To start up in new regions ALIDI team needed about a month. During this time, the following tasks were completed:
- Recruitment and hiring of personnel, the total number of employees in the new regions exceeds 550 people.
- Preparing of the infrastructure of new storage areas. They are located in Kazan and Ufa, each of them has an area of 3000 sq.m. and 2000 sq.m. respectively.
- Negotiations with clients and a campaign to conclude agreements with them.
- Settings of information systems were completed, including mobile commerce and the WMS system.

"Getting started in new regions is of great importance for ALIDI," says Peter Zuber, Director of ALIDI-West LLC and the leader of the startup. - Developing new territories, we are opening new opportunities for business development. I thank our strategic partner Nestle for the trust and I express my gratitude to the startup team. Ahead we have a huge amount of work to align all processes with company standards and to ensure the high quality of distribution operations in the new division. "

About Nestle
Nestle is the world's largest producer of food. The history of the company goes back to 1866. Since then, Nestle's range of products has been constantly expanding and currently the company has over 8,000 trademarks and 10,000 consumer products. Today the Nestle group employs about 280,000 people; Nestle owns about 450 factories in 83 countries. More information about the company are available at www.nestle.ru