Yakovlev Igor: "Eldorado"

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The full name of a successful businessman is Igor Nikolaevich Yakovlev. He was born in 1965.

Businessman Igor Yakovlev

It's worth starting with the fact that this person received education in two higher educational institutions. He was the first to graduate from the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute, after which he was educated at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. People who were closely acquainted with him, as well as all his relatives, say that Igor Yakovlev was a very demanding and very tough businessman. For a person, these qualities may not always be the best, but everyone recognized that they allowed him to become such a successful businessman.

History of "Eldorado"

It was under the leadership of Igor Yakovlev that the Eldorado retail network began to grow rapidly and gain momentum. Initially, the stores were located only in two cities - in Moscow and Saratov. However, by 2007, the annual turnover of this company amounted to almost 6 billion dollars.

However, the story of such a grandiose success began long before that. It is generally accepted that things have gone uphill since the discovery by YakovlevIgor of the first store in the city of Saratov back in 1994. Currently, the stores of this trading network are located on the territory of not only Russia, but also Ukraine. In total, there are about 110 stores that sell household appliances. In addition, the company opened 387 communication stores, which are also located on the territory of Russia and Ukraine. At present, Igor Yakovlev has been the undisputed leader of this company for 15 years already.

Success of the firm

But if everyone knows the success story, then only a few realize how difficult it was to build such a huge company. Many even believe that this man was in the military before coming into business. However, the inner circle claims the opposite. Little can be said about how it all began and how Igor Yakovlev and his brother Oleg were able to build such a successful business.

It is authentically known, for example, that the construction of the company actually started from scratch and without any support from any of the FIGs. One of the decisive success factors was that this particular person understood how to minimize the cost of delivering goods from Domodedovo to Moscow, as well as to other cities and towns. The thing is that in the early 1990s, when Igor Yakovlev began to build his business, it was a common practice to take a fee at each customs post from each passing truck.

Some say that after calculating the costs that go to the usual delivery of cargo, a decision was madehire an escort, and the same company that worked at the posts. The important thing is that it was much cheaper to hire such an escort than to overcome all the posts on your own. And this, of course, led to the fact that the goods began to sell with a higher profit than competitors who did not guess to do the same.

However, it would be fair to say that such a move was not dictated by the fact that Igor Yakovlev was a management genius or something like that. The reason was much more banal, and it consisted in the usual lack of funds. This is what led to the fact that we had to save literally on everything and look for such means of saving as a convoy.