- CEO
- Vladimir Leonidovich Sorokin
- Full Time Employees
- 52,857
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Department Stores
- Address
- 112B Savushkina Street Saint Petersburg Russian Federation 197374
- IPO Date
- Mar 16, 2020
- Business
- Lenta International public joint-stock company operates as one of Russia's leading multi-format food retailers, specializing in hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores and drogerie outlets; it offers a broad range of groceries including fresh produce, bakery, dairy, meat and fish products, packaged foods, household goods, non-food items and private label brands. The company serves urban and suburban customers across more than 650 cities and towns in Russia through approximately 261 hypermarkets, 246 supermarkets, 2,312 convenience stores under the Monetka brand and over 1,500 drogerie stores under the Ulybka Radugi (Rainbow Smile) brand, with total retail space exceeding 2.8 million square meters. Founded in 1993 and headquartered at 112B Savushkina Street in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Lenta International functions as a subsidiary of Severgroup LLC and employs over 75,000 people while serving more than 38 million loyalty cardholders. In recent developments, the company acquired Era Trading House JSC, owner of the Ulybka Radugi drugstore chain comprising over 1,500 stores, in December 2024 with consolidation of financials beginning that month and financing primarily from cash reserves by mid-2025; it continues active M&A activity including prior acquisitions of the Monetka convenience store chain and regional retailers, alongside plans to open at least 1,000 Monetka stores, 350 drogerie outlets and 50 supermarkets annually. Lenta also reported robust growth with retail revenue reaching 773.84 billion rubles for the first nine months of 2025, up 25% year-over-year, driven by like-for-like sales increases, online sales expansion and new store openings totaling 807 convenience stores, five hypermarkets, 42 supermarkets and 245 drogerie stores during the period.