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Moscow carsharing market could triple by 2025
The carsharing park in Moscow could triple to 30,000 by 2025, according to the PriceWater- HouseCoopers forecast cited by RBC business portal on September 13.
In August 2018 there were 10,500 cars available for carsharing in the capital under various plat- forms, but the market will expand due to paid parking and expensive maintenance of personal vehicles, as well as support from the authorities.
Currently there are 16 carsharing operators in Moscow, with Delimobil, Belka Car, You Drive, and Yandex.Drive controlling 94% of the market. Deli- mobil estimates that the carsharing park in Mos- cow already reached 12,000-13,000 vehicles.
Czechs forecast to hike spending via online shops by up to 18% in 2018
Czechs will spend over CZK133bn at online shops in 2018, an annual increase of 15%-18%, the Czech Association for Electronic Commerce (AEK) stated in its outlook on September 18.
People in Czechia are big lovers of online shop- ping. According to market research company GfK, Czechia has the highest number of e-shops per capita in the European Union. In total, there are 40,100 online shops in the country.
More than 43% of non-food products are sold via e-shops in Czechia. The second is the Nether- lands with 35%, third Slovakia with 34% and fourth Great Britain with 33%.
“The share of e-shops on the overall retail market should also grow. Last year, it reached 10.5%. The key period for e-shops will be, traditionally, pre- Christmas time, which makes up one-third of all sales,” said AEK director Jan Vetyska.
In the first half of 2018, Czechs spent CZK51.5bn via e-shops, an increase of 11% y/y.
“The first half of year is traditionally weaker. We expect that thanks to Christmas, this year growth will be by few more per cent higher,” said Tomas Braverman, director of Heureka.cz, a company online comparing prices.
Mitsubishi Corp. and Mail.Ru Group invest in car selling site Autospot
Mitsubishi Corp. and Mail.Ru Group have invested $4.1 million in car selling site Autospot, in ex- change for a 21% stake in the company – setting the company’s post-money valuation at $19.1 mil- lion. The news was reported by the business daily Vedomosti based on exchanges with Autospot’s general manager Dmitry Andreev.
Autospot allows its users to buy a car with a discount from a network of authorized dealers in Russia. After launch in 2013, the startup secured several rounds of funding from such investors as Fastlane Ventures, SOL Ventures, and individual investors.
More than 30,000 cars are currently available for sale on the site, with discounts of up to 4.8 million rubles (around $70,000).
Russia's Yandex launches B2B Yandex.Cloud platform
Russian internet services major Yandex launched its B2B platform for cloud services Yandex.Oblako (Yandex.Cloud), Tass and Vedomosti daily reported on September 5.
The platform will allow clients to develop and maintain web-based services and was tested by over 50 major companies, such as X5 Retail Group, Tinkoff Bank, S7 airlines, and others.
Currently the service will operate in Russia, but plans to compete with Western services to Mi- crosoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform in the future.