Moscow, 17 April 2012
X5 Retail Group N.V. (further, “X5” and/or the “Company”), Russia’s largest retailer in terms of revenue (LSE ticker symbol: FIVE), announced today that the Company has opened its first Perekrestok supermarket in Perm, a major industrial city in the Urals. Until now, Х5 has only opened Pyaterochka soft discounter stores in the Perm Region.