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brought to Russia under parallel imports in 2022. In May–December 2022, 165,000 smartphones arrived from India, twice the volume brought in the same period of 2021. Pogudalov said that Apple sales in the country plunged 47% in 2022, twice the market’s fall in the smartphone category overall.
The jewelry retail market shrank by 9% to 301bn rubles in 2022, a representative of jewelry holding company Sokolov told reporters on February 17. However, the average purchase size has grown by 20% to 6,880 rubles since the start of the year. The company quoted the Rosstat statistics agency that the average retail price increased by 14.2% on the year in December 2022, the representative said.
Russian breweries produced 52.4mn decalitres (dal) of beer in January, which is 3.6% more than in January 2022, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) reported yesterday. compared to December 2022, production decreased by 10.9%. Mineral natural water in January produced 401.1mn bottles (0.5 liters). This is 26.3% more than in January 2022, but 28.4% less than in December 2022. Drinking water, including carbonated water - 613.4mn bottles (5.6% more than in January 2022, but 14.7% less than in December 2022).
Chinese competitors. Smartphone giant Xiaomi and automaker Geely are among those that have seen sales surge in recent months, industry data shows.
Where iPhones and Samsung Galaxies were once bestsellers, models from Xiaomi and another Chinese vendor, Realme, now top the sales charts, according to Counterpoint Research.
Chinese manufacturers were already popular in Russia before the war, accounting for approximately 40% of the smartphone market in December 2021. Now, they’ve taken over almost entirely, accounting for 95% of the market a year later, according to Counterpoint data.
Meanwhile, Samsung and Apple— which typically held the number one and two spots, respectively — saw their combined market share drop from 53% to just 3% over the same period as they pulled out of the country.
A similar story is playing out on Russia’s roads. Over the past year, Chinese carmakers Chery and Great Wall Motor have jumped into the top 10 passenger vehicle brands, while Germany’s BMW and Mercedes (MBGAF) have disappeared, according to data from S&P Global Mobility.
Russians bought a record number of Chinese cars last year, according to data provider Autostat. Chinese new car sales in the country rose 7% in 2022, to 121,800 vehicles, even as the market crashed, it said in a report last month.
Lada, the homegrown brand that was already Russia’s most popular carmaker
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