Jan Dunning leaves Lenta  

 28 July 2010 (St. Petersburg, RUSSIA) -   Following a change in Lenta shareholders last year, Jan Dunning joined as the General Director of Lenta LLC and the CEO of Lenta Ltd.  The firm announces that the Board of Directors of Lenta Ltd proposed Sergei Yuschenko to be the Interim General Director of Lenta LLC and CEO of Lenta Ltd, replacing Jan Dunning whose last day with the firm is 28 July 2010.

Sergei Yuschenko is a shareholder of Lenta and is serving his third term on the Board of Directors of Lenta Ltd since 2005. Currently, he is the General Director of Spar Retail in Russia.

About Lenta:
Lenta is a hypermarket chain that was founded in Russia in 1993. Currently it operates 37 hypermarkets in 18 cities throughout the country including 14 in St. Petersburg, 4 in Novosibirsk, 2 in Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk and Krasnodar, and one each in Astrakhan, Barnaul, Cherepovets, Novgorod, Volgograd, Petrozavodsk, Togliatti, Tyumen, Penza, Ryazan, Saratov, Novorossisk, and Naberezhny Chelny. Lenta has over 3.5mln loyal cardholders throughout the country that regularly shop at Lenta and enjoy the firm’s low prices.  Turnover at the firm in 2009 was $1.8bln.

Contacts:

Katherine Lean, Secretary to the Board of Directors of Lenta Ltd Tel: +7 812 448 6071, +7 931 303 9311 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting