X5 Wins Recognition For Investor Relations
29 Jun 2009

Moscow, 29 June 2009 – X5 Retail Group N.V., Russia's largest retailer in terms of sales (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), is pleased to announce that the Company's Chief Financial Officer Evgeny Kornilov has been ranked number one for Best Investor Relations by a CFO in the Focus Russia 2009 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey.

X5’s Investor Relations Director Anna Kareva was named Best Investor Relations Officer in the Russian retail sector.The 3rd annual ranking for Russia by Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys evaluated investor relations efforts of Russian publicly-traded companies in four categories: Best IR by a Quoted Company, Best IR by a CEO, Best IR by a CFO, and Best IR Officer. In addition, Best IR by a Quoted Company and Best IR Officer were selected in eight industry sectors. Winners were determined on the basis of a survey among analysts covering the Russian equity market and fund managers investing in Russia, conducted by Thomson Reuters Extel Survey.

X5 Retail Group N.V.

LSE-Listed X5 Retail Group N.V. is Russia’s largest food retailer in terms of sales and the only multi-format operator in Russia and with a growing presence in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The four primary retail investments held by X5 include leading supermarket chain Perekrestok, leading soft discounter chain Pyaterochka, Kopeyka, a leading discount grocery retailer, and Karusel, one of the leading hypermarket chains in Russia.

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