Chizhik opens its first stores in Samara Region

CHIZHIK OPENS ITS FIRST STORES IN SAMARA REGION

Samara, 18 April 2023 - X5 Group ("X5" or the "Company", LSE and MOEX ticker: FIVE), a leading Russian food retailer, announces the opening of its first hard discounters under the Chizhik brand in the Samara Region. On Tuesday, the Company opened two stores in Samara, on 4 Georgiya Dmitrova Street and 17 Sovetskoy Armii Street, and three stores in Togliatti, on 5 40 Let Pobedy Street, 63 Larina Street and 75 Golosova Street.

The product assortment at each store features approximately 750 SKUs, including over 400 private label items that have already become popular with Chizhik customers. These include Svetaevo, Verner, Shchedry God, Greenola, Axl, Tafo, and others.

Chizhik's business model is based on offering a small but sought-after selection of high-quality products. The retailer delivers low prices for its customers thanks to business process optimisation and relentless cost discipline, while the large share of private labels in its assortment enable Chizhik to offer only those products that meet its high standards of quality and charge fair prices and markups. Chizhik also stands out for its unique Nado Uspet ("Catch the Price") zone that highlights the best deals in household, kitchen, gardening supplies and other products - all in one place.

The new stores will be supplied from Chizhik's distribution centre in Kazan with shipments from both nationwide and local suppliers. By the end of the year, the retailer expects to bring the total number of new jobs created for local communities to approximately 180.

The Samara Region is the 10th region in the retail chain's footprint. Chizhik plans to open 55 more stores in Samara, Ulyanovsk and Togliatti before the end of the year.

At the end of 2022, Chizhik had more than 500 stores across eight regions of Russia. In 2023, the retail chain plans to press ahead with its rapid expansion by doubling the number of store openings and new regions of operation.

Note to Editors:

X5 Retail Group N.V. (LSE and MOEX: FIVE; Expert RA - ruAAA; ACRA - AAA(RU)) is a leading Russian food retailer. The Company operates proximity stores under the Pyaterochka brand, Perekrestok supermarkets and Chizhik hard discounters. X5 provides an omnichannel experience to its customers, integrating retail stores and e-commerce through its businesses Vprok.ru, 5Post and Mnogo Lososya.

As of 31 December 2022, X5 had 21,323 Company-operated stores. It has the leading market position in both Moscow and St. Petersburg and a significant presence in the European part of Russia. Its store base includes 19,164 Pyaterochka proximity stores, 971 Perekrestok supermarkets, 517 Chizhik hard discounters and 595 Krasny Yar and Slata stores. The Company operates 53 DCs and 4,386 Company-owned trucks across the Russian Federation.

X5 is one of the largest employers in Russia. The Company employs over 353 thousand people.

For the full year 2022, revenue totalled RUB 2,605,232 million (USD 38,005 million*), EBITDA pre-IFRS 16 reached RUB 186,788 million (USD 2,725 million*), and net profit pre-IFRS 16 for the period amounted to RUB 52,248 million (USD 762 million*).

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