Vilniaus prekyba
The Uzdaroji akcinė bendrovė Vilniaus prekyba (Eng. ' Vilnius' trade ' ) is the largest Lithuanian Group. Heart of the company is the trade group "Maxima grupė ", which operates supermarkets of all sizes in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Bulgaria. Then there is the group of the pharmacy chains " Euroapotheca " with branches in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland (formerly also in Slovakia and Czech Republic) and UAB " Ermitažas ". Among them were formerly also the operator of shopping centers "UAB Acropolis " restaurant chain JSC " Delano ," the insurance company "VP Draudimas " as well as the energy company " NDX Energia " (now managed by UAB "VP grupė " ), the 38 % of the domestic energy suppliers Leo LT belonged. The main shareholder of the Group is Nerijus Numavičius.
2012 was achieved sales of 9.643 billion litas.
The seat is in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
History
The beginnings of " Vilniaus prekyba " lie in the years after independence from the Soviet Union from 1992 state-owned enterprises were privatized. The former students Nerijus Numavičius, Julius Numavičius, Vlada Numavičius, Žilvinas Marcinkevičius, Mindaugas Marcinkevičius, Gintaras Marcinkevičius, Mindaugas Bagdonavičius, Ignas Staškevičius and Renata Vaitkevicius participated in the privatization and acquired shops, primarily in order to sell as a real estate profitably continue to be able to. From these properties, in 1994, the retail company " Vilniaus prekyba " in which five owned businesses were merged.
1995 acquired the nine young entrepreneurs shares to three sugar factories. Adopted in 1998, is located at a great profit from food production ( including the sale of the sugar factories to the Danish company " Danisco " ) and focused on the retail sale of food. In 2002 the expansion of the country's borders with opening the first supermarket in Latvia, Estonia and later, since 2005, in Bulgaria. Business in Romania was abandoned.
In April 2002 took place in Vilnius, the opening of its first shopping center in Lithuania, under the name of Acropolis. Two more followed in Klaipeda and Kaunas, a fourth in the nordlitauischen Šiauliai is under construction (as of February 2009). As of 2003, the westlitauische mains Vakarų skirstomieji was privatized tinklai, VP was one of two Lithuanian companies that met the conditions ( minimum annual turnover of more than EUR 130 million ) and acquired with its subsidiary company " NDX Energia " the power grid.
On 5 March, the company has been registered and formalized as a holding company until December 2004 after the reorganization of managed transactions ( companies).
The nine founding members were owners of the Group. 2006, this group of financier and bank managers Darius Nedzinskas concurred. The group of entrepreneurs was called since then as "VP dešimtukas ".
Shareholders
Shareholders are Nerijus Numavičius, Žilvinas Marcinkevičius, Mindaugas Marcinkevičius, Ignas Staškevičius, Gintaras Marcinkevičius, Mindaugas Bagdonavičius and Vlada Numavičius.
Board of Directors
Jolanta Bivainytė (Chair), Mindaugas Bagdonavičius, Ignas Staškevičius, Jurgita Simonaviciute and Raymonda Kižienė.