OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2008. OJSC “Company “M.video” (RTS, MICEX: MVID), one of the Russia’s largest consumer electronics retailers, announced today its consolidated unaudited net retail sales and like-for-like (LfL) results for the first quarter 2008.

In Q1 2008 “M.video” group demonstrated 77% year-on-year growth in net retail sales in USD terms (63% growth in RUR terms) and 32% year-on-year growth of like-for-like sales in USD terms (22% in RUR terms).

Alexander Tynkovan, “M.video” President and CEO commented on that: “We are very pleased with our strong sales performance and growth in the first quarter of 2008. This allows us to be confident in delivering our promises to the market and achieving goals set for 2008. We reconfirm our plans to open up to 40 new stores this year while demonstrating growth of the major performance indicators in the booming Russian consumer electronics market.”