Student biography

The biography has grown to subscribe to the family of poor parents who were engaged in agriculture. As a boy, he moves to a small town of Bakal of the Satkinsky district in the west of the Chelyabinsk region. There he graduates from school and decides to continue education. To do this, he moves to the city of Satka, known for its mining enterprises. Sergey chooses a technical specialty and enters the Satkin Mining and Ceramatic College.

After graduating from the educational institution, Sergey Students' works works in the mining industry, then goes into the army. After returning, he decides to move to Chelyabinsk. Students began his entrepreneurial path in X with the retail sale of alcohol, tobacco products, building materials and household appliances. For the acquisition and subsequent resale of goods, he defended many hours of queues.

He also took part in the opening of several stores: with his wife Elena, they decide to open the “Kafel House” - the only then a staging tile and ceramic granite store in Chelyabinsk. This project has successfully functioned for more than ten years. In the year of students, the first store of alcohol “red and white” in Kopeisk, which is located ten kilometers from Chelyabinsk, opens. The moment for the opening was chosen very successfully, since due to the closure of imports in favor of the introduction of EGAIS, a deficiency of alcohol began.

The profit of the first store exceeded the expected five times. As of October, the Red and White network consisted of stores and was the “fastest growing large retail seller” in Russia. In the year with the revenue for a year in the billion, the largest companies in Russia for revenue. "In September, in the year, in terms of the speed of revenue growth over the past five years, the Red and Beloya chain of stores were in third place among a hundred Russian companies, which are included in the RBC rating with Igor Kesaev, the owner of the DISI group and co -owner of the Bristol trading network and Sergei Katsiev, co -owner of the Bristol retail network for the unification of retail chains in a single retailer.

The revenue of the retailer created after the merger of the year can be estimated at billion rubles without VAT. This will make the company to the third in circulation retail group in Russia. Globalmsk rating.