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plan more often in the first quarter of 2021, according to a study conducted by the analysts of Yookassa. The copy of the study was obtained by TASS. The data for February-March shows that the volume of such payments increased by almost 40%.
The Russian government will invest almost RUB280bn in development of the electronic industry in the next three years, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Wednesday at a meeting with the parliament deputies. “We paid special attention to the promising directions, mainly the progress of the electronic industry. This is the basis of digital transformation of our country. We raised the budget funding of the industry by several times – the three-year budget stipulates almost 280bn rubles,” Mishustin said. The government will have to ensure full-scale transition to local hardware and software complexes, which will host the key services for the people, the government, and business.
DataInsight published its annual rating of the 100 largest online operators. Their combined turnover almost doubled y/y to RUB2.1tn in 2020, from RUB1.17tn in 2019. This was primarily fuelled by the increasing number of online orders, while the average ticket has grown slightly. The e-grocery segment outpaced the development of e-commerce overall, as the comparison base was low, with the total number of operators in the list doubling to 12 (from 6 in 2019). The highest increase was shown by marketplaces and aggregators: Yandex.Lavka increased 47.5x, followed by Samokat (17.4x) and Sbermarket (13x). Retailers showed lower growth profiles due to the higher comparison base: 4.7x for metro.cc, 2.1x for Vprok.ru (X5 Retail Group), 94% for Azbuka Vkusa, 66% for Utkonos and 24% for O'Key Group.
According to Data Insight, the total children's goods online market surged 76% y/y in monetary terms and 2.1x y/y in quantitative terms in 2020. The exact numbers were not disclosed, but the agency mentioned it to be a record high, as sales were up 21% y/y in 2019, while the number of orders increased 40% y/y. Offline operations on the children's goods market were pressured by the pandemic-related restrictions. Detsky Mir, the overall market leader with a 22% share, had 12% of its stores in Russia temporarily closed between April and mid-May.
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