VTB ready to give out loans to grocery retailers

VTB ready to give out loans to grocery retailers in the absorption on the recommendation of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, but only under specific transaction, the newspaper Kommersant. As the "Y", the private sector arm of the bank "VTB-Capital" is already advising X5 Retail Group (network Pyaterochka, "Crossroads," "Carousel" and others) in negotiations to merge with the "penny" or buying a stake in it y Uralsib. In November 2008, at a meeting with grocery retailers First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov recommended networks "to unite", and state banks, VTB and Sberbank to give them money for acquisitions. X5 asked if at VTB 7 billion rubles. on purchases.