The founder of Russia’s largest online store Wildberries Tatiana Bakalchuk lost first place in the list of the richest women of the country according to Forbes magazine
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the Founder of Russia’s largest online store Wildberries Tatiana Bakalchuk lost first place in the list of the richest women of the country according to Forbes magazine. In the first place in the list of the richest women of Russia returned the head of the Inteco Management and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov Elena Baturina.
According to Real-Time Billionaires List, last month the state of Bakalchuk decreased 29% to $1 billion. Forbes explains this by the fall of the ruble, and the decline in the value of the underlying asset women – online store Wildberries: shares of most these companies in March fell because of the news about spread of coronavirus. At the same time, the state Baturina rose to $1.3 billion, it is less affected by the crises, because the assets Baturina are scattered in different business sectors and located outside of Russia.
In the list of richest Russians Baturina is included since 2004, and a rating of the richest Russians she headed unchallenged for almost 10 years, since its founding in 2012. In 2018, Bakalchuk for the first time entered the list of Russia’s richest men according to Forbes, her fortune was then estimated at $ 600 million. Their business she founded with her husband Vladislav in 2004. First, the couple was engaged in selling women’s clothing in German catalogues Otto and Quelle. Now Wildberries various categories of goods, including toys, sports and baby food, electronics, books and more.
In February last year she became the second Bakalchuk after Baturina, a Russian-born, whose fortune reached $1 billion, Owner of Wildberries became the leader of the rating of the richest women in the country in February 2020. Forbes then estimated Bakalchuk to $1.4 billion, Baturina at $1.2 billion.
