Acting Governor Anatoly Gredin chaired a meeting with Okuma Europe GmbH’s Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Director-General Karl-Heinz Dreyer and President and Managing Director Kaoru Aoyama and with Director-General of UMK Pumori-SIZ Alexander Balandin at Sverdlovsk Region Government House. The meeting resulted in Sverdlovsk Region Government, Germany-based Okuma Europe GmbH, Japan-based Okuma corporation, and Yekaterinburg-based UMK Pumori-SIZ signing a protocol of intent regarding the construction of a metal-cutters manufacturing plant. According to Alexander Balandin, the

Somewhere around January 10, 2012, Unilever is to come up with an offer to buy out the remaining portion of Concern Kalina’s shares. The 82% shareholding in the Russian cosmetics manufacturing company comes at the price of about 17.4bn RUR, which is approximately 700m RUR more than what was originally declared. This increase is due to a number of changes in what regards the actual cost of the transaction. Kalina’s estimated value has remained the same, namely, about 25.9bn RUR, Unilever’s press service reports. Unilever expects that the deadline for accepting the offer will come to about

The construction of the Radisson Hotel in Yekaterinburg will only begin in the summer of 2012, the Director-General of Atomstroycomplex Valery Ananyev said at a press conference today. ‘We had some difficulties getting all the permissions for the project, so some changes had to be made. The design work is expected to be completed next April, and this is when the construction will start,’ he explained. The hotel’s estimated value comes to about 6bn RUR. Radisson SAS will be located at the intersection of Malyshev St and Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The developer announced earlier that they could

В 10.00 в здании Дворца пионеров и школьников им. Н.К. Крупской (Свердловский пр., 59, актовый зал административного корпуса) откроется региональная научно-практическая конференция «Южный Урал глазами российских писателей». В 11.00 в «IBC Центре» (ул. Энгельса, 65) начнется пресс-конференция «Бизнесменов спросят о затратах», посвященная федеральному статистическому наблюдению за затратами на производство и реализацию товаров (работ, услуг). В 11.00 глава администрации Челябинска Сергей Давыдов примет участие в выездном совещании по вопросам работы городского фонда энергоэффективности и

17 декабря в Челябинске состоится предновогодняя ярмарка «Продукты к праздничному столу».