small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly in services and trade, employs about 18 million people, about half of them affected the mode of working days, the Vice-President Trading-industrial chamber of Russia Elena Dubova. According to her, after the first week of quarantine, more than half of the surveyed entrepreneurs stated the lack of extra money as the work proceeded with speed. According to the forecasts of the RF CCI, closed about 3 million companies.
the Transition to the alternative – the delivery of food from restaurants, online training, attracting taxis to transport orders is not a panacea. “Delivery, for which we relied in the hope to cover the costs, nothing is given. Not all meals can be delivered to the consumer,” – said the President of the Federation of restaurateurs and hoteliers, Igor Bukharov. All the money currently spent on payment of salaries to employees. “If may also have to sit idle, they will exit the market more than 30% of restaurants. Most just do not have anything to open again. And occupy is not one”, – said Bukharov.
For most of the affected industries, one of the most acute is the topic of rent payments. For example, in Russia 13 thousand objects of the fitness industry, which covers an area of 6 million square meters, with more than half of the premises of sports clubs is located in the commercial lease. “The situation in the industry is critical,” said President of the Association of operators of the fitness industry in Russia Olga Kiseleva. In the fitness industry employs 768 thousand people, of which 600 thousand were under threat of reduction. Bankruptcy, according to the Association, wait until 70% of the companies, the liabilities of the industry in the event of mass bankruptcies will amount to 40 billion rubles.
Close to the critical point and the situation in the sphere of road haulage. “The whole block taxi, fell by 90%, according to economy drop a little less, – said CEO of Gettaxi Russia Anatoly Smorgon. Now our company help to live B2B services: for those who are on remote, we carry things from work, provide document management, carry to the office employees, who have decided that employees should not use public transport, but still need to visit the offices”.
the Reduction in revenue karteninhaber companies by the end of the pandemic may reach 70%. 13 April, all trips on the cars of car sharing in the capital is temporarily prohibited. The extension of these measures until September, was the fatal decision for virtually all market players, said General Director of the service YouDrive Boris Golikov. The Chairman of the Board, Foundation for the development of the digital economy Herman Klimenko is confident that car-sharing has all the chances to stay afloat. Coming to the rescue of deferred loan and leasing. Another thing is the taxi business, which employs many times more people.
Several Russian associations representing ��roizvoditeley food and drinks, offered to impose a moratorium on promotions and sale of products at a discount. Their position, they argued that the increase in the share of sales promotions reduces the income of producers. We are talking about dairy products, soft drinks and mineral water, sugar. During a pandemic the cost of producers grow, and shares play against them.
Shopping online has opposed. The ban will lead to further reduction in demand for products from such a solution would lose customers, suppliers, and retail, told “RG” the press-Secretary of the Association of retail companies (akort) Ilya Vlasenko. “Regulation and the decline in such sales may, but market ways, otherwise the consequences will be negative for all participants in the chain of sales”, – said Ilya Vlasenko. He recalled that companies within an Association, 20 March decided to temporarily not apply fines for failure to supply goods in the presence of objective reasons. In addition, major retailers, such as X5 Retail Group and Magnit, resets margins, the number of socially-important goods.
