Biography
A billionaire from Krasnodar Sergey Galitsky is the name of his wife, and capital earned not on natural resources, but on food. He loves the city in which he lived most of his life, and a lot of strength and money spends on social projects of the native land.Childhood and youth
Sergey Nikolaevich Arutyunyan (Birthday Last Name) was born on August 14, 1967 in the resort village of Lazarevskoye Krasnodar Territory.
By nationality, Sergey - Armenian, grew up in the family of middle wealth. As a child, he loved to drive the ball in the courtyard, but in 14 years caught fire chess. After 2 years, she passed the standard and became a candidate for the master of sports on chess.
As a child, the boy has already shown a business veil - she collected the hazelnut and passed it to the market, the money received brought into the family. After graduation, he went to the army, served 2 years, and in 1987, demobilized, filed documents for the Economic Faculty of the University of Kuban. During his studies, Sergey Nikolayevich had to earn a loader.
On the 3rd year, he wrote an analytical article in the profile magazine "Finance and Credit". The calculations made by the student were struck by the editor of the publication and not only. After the publication of the student's article found the head of the commercial bank and invited to the interview.
Sergey made such a proposal from which he could not refuse - the post of deputy manager. From that moment on, Galitsky combined his studies and work in the bank.
In 1993, the guy graduated from the university, she worked on the bank again and resigned at his own request. Sergey's care explained the futility of the Bank's development.
Personal life
With the future wife of Victoria Galitsky Sergey met back at the university. The girl studied at the accountant. When they got married, it is not known - a businessman does not like to talk about the family and personal life.After the wedding, Sergey took the surname of the spouse. Journalists wrote that they insisted this, stating that the daughter and grandchildren would not wear Armenian surname. According to another version, the last name Galitsky is famous, Prince. Be that as it may, Sergey Nikolayevich officially became Galitsky.
On November 2, 1995, Galitsky had a daughter of Polina. The wife of the billionaire is not working now - this is not necessary. The daughter went to the footsteps of the parents and also entered the Kuban State University for the Economic Faculty. In 2017, Polina fell into the list of the richest heirs of the Russian oligarchic top, receiving 5th place in the Golden Youth ranking.
Since 2005, Sergey Nikolaevich regularly falls among the richest entrepreneurs in the Ranking of the Russian version of Forbes. Kommersant started from the 64th position. In 2016, he took the 17th position with a state of $ 5.7 billion, and in 2017 he became eighteenth with a capital of $ 6.8 billion. In 2019, this amount amounted to $ 3.4 billion.
Galitsky leads a personal account in "Instagram" since 2018. All photos An entrepreneur accompanies quotes of great people.
Career
After dismissal from Bank Galitsky decided to do his own business. In 1994, the merchant became the founder of Transassia, which was engaged in the supply and sale of cosmetics from Avon, P & G, Johnson & Johnson.
A year later, Transassia has already become an exclusive distributor of P & G products in the southern region, but the flair forced Galician move on. The entrepreneur left the company for partners and plunged into the food business. The period of take-off in the professional biography of the merchant.
In 1995, the businessman established the company "Tander", and after 3 years he opened the first Cash & Carry shop in Krasnodar. Galitsky did not want to compete with large retailers, so opened small shops in small cities.
After a few years, the businessman united these stores into a single network "Magnit". The name was born after the competition between the top managers of the enterprise. In full form, it means "Low tariff stores".
In 2001, the network has already consisted of 250 trade enterprises and was considered the largest in Russia. By the 2003 Magnet on the trade turnover, which has already reached $ 1.6 billion, overtook the "Pyaterochka" network.
In 2007, the first hypermarkets "Magnit" opened. In 2012, Sergey Galitsky expanded the business, including the network of perfumery and cosmetics Rouge. And next year, "Magnit" became an absolute leader in Russia in the product segment.
For 2017, the market value of the enterprise was $ 15.6 billion. Galitsky's brainchild hit the 100 best innovative projects in the opinion of the Forbes edition.
In addition to the product business, which includes a network of stores and factories for the production of food "TD-Holding" LLC, OOO "Optilage", Sergey Nikolaevich opened the PR agency "Art Side", RK "Quarter", hotel, restaurants. Since 2015, he is part of VTB Bank Supervisory Board.
Sergey Galitsky is the owner of FC "Krasnodar". In 2008, the merchant acquired a spent club. Businessman built a stadium, which in the people was nicknamed by the Krasnodar Coliseum, or Galishem, Children's Football Academy in Krasnodar. In 2011, Krasnodar officially entered the Premier League of Russian Football Clubs.
The owner of the Magnit store chain in December 2017 participated in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, which was held for the Russian business elite. For a month earlier, Sergey Nikolayevich received an honorary certificate from the hands of the head of the state "For merits in the development of entrepreneurship, active social activities and many years of conscientious work."
In 2018, Galitsky sold most of its shares (29.1%) of the company "Magnit" by VTB Bank. The amount of the transaction amounted to 138 billion rubles. The founder remained a package of shares of 3%. As an entrepreneur explained in an interview, the project investors see his future differently than the founder, so he left the corporation.
For myself, the businessman decided to move on, despite the fact that the period of the management period is only positive memories.
Sergey Galitsky now
Being a rich inhabitant of the city, the entrepreneur participates in many social projects to improve the urban environment. The dream of a billionaire is to make a city-garden from Krasnodar, in which its inhabitants will be comfortable.
Now Sergey Galitsky is engaged in the development of the Krasnodar football club. In 2019, a sign of a contract with a freedom liberated by Pavel Mamaev was becoming a landmark event for FC. This decision Galitsky commented on the fact that a football player receiving big money and is an example for imitating young people, has no right to rapid aggressive deeds.