Fashion Continent is a vertically integrated Russian fashion retailer that designs, produces and sells women’s and kids clothes as well as lingerie at affordable prices, through its own chain of stores operating under INCITY, INCITY KIDS and DESEO brands. The company was founded in 2003 and since then, developed into a leading fashion brand with over 360 stores in more than 140 cities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Belarus. INCITY brand is one of the Top-5 largest brands in Russia and is one of the most recognizable brands, according to research by Nielsen. The brand is positioned in affordable fast fashion segment. Fashion Continent designs 100% of its collections in-house, which then are produced by third party suppliers in China, Bangladesh, Italy and Russia, under Company’s strict quality control. The company’s headquarters are based in Moscow. Its design, production and distribution centers are located in Moscow, Alma-Ata, Guangzhou and Shanghai. The number of employees exceeds 3000 people. Selling space of its leased stores varies from 250 to 700 sqm.

VKontakte is the largest social network and the most popular website in Russia. Thanks to its team of top-notch developers, the company is one of the highly-recognized global technological leaders. VKontakte is one of Russia’s largest advertising platforms.

Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (part of Mechel Group) includes several mining and processing enterprises. The total designed capacity of the company's enterprises for underground and open-pit coal mining is 21.8 million tons per year, for coal enrichment 17 million tons per year. Southern Kuzbass Coal Company produces coking and steam coal concentrates, anthracites, coals for PCI and middlings, which are supplied in an enriched and graded form (97% of total production) to the domestic and export markets.

Severalmaz’s main activity is mining the largest in Europe primary diamond deposit named after M.V. Lomonosov. The Company has core industrial divisions engaged in extraction, transportation and processing of raw materials, geological prospecting, as well as auxiliary workshops. Severalmaz extracts more than 2 mln carats of diamonds per year.

Russian Trading System (RTS) was one of largest Russian exchanges through to December, 2011, until the merge with Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) formed ‘Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS’ (‘Moscow Exchange’ (MOEX), since 2012). The major benchmark for the Russian stock market, RTS Index, was first introduced on 1 September, 1995, and is currently calculated by MOEX.

Gazprom neftekhim Salavat (formerly Salavatnefteorgsintez) is one of Russia’s major petrochemical and oil refining complexes. The company's core businesses are the production and sales of oil refining products, petrochemical and mineral fertilizers products. The company produces more than 75 different products, 50% of which are bulk products.

One of the leading Russian baby food brands with market share of approx. 15% and a turnover of $140 million. Prior to 2008, it was a unit of Lebedyansky juice producer. The company operates a state of the art manufacturing facility, located in Lipetsk region, as well as has a nationwide distribution footprint. The main brand, Frutonyanya, has a very high recognition in the Russian market.

The innovative technology GEOSPLIT® used for horizontal well long-term production logging is based on the application of quantum marker-reporters® and machine-learning algorithms for the automated interpretation of well fluid samples analysis results. The main activities of the company: implementation of commercial production logging projects, R&D.