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 it was they who enabled him to become such a successful businessman.
History of Eldorado
It was under the leadership of Igor Yakovlev that the Eldorado trading network began to grow rapidly and gain momentum. Initially, stores were 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 grand success began long before that. It is believed that things have gone uphill since the opening of the first store in the city of Saratov by Yakovlev Igor back in 1994. Currently, the stores of this distribution network are located not only in Russia but also in Ukraine. In total, there are about 110 stores that sell household appliances. In addition, the company opened 387 communication stores, which are also located in Russia and Ukraine. At present, Igor Yakovlev has been the permanent leader of this company for 15 years already.
Company success
But if everyone knows the success story, then only a few guess how difficult it was to build such a huge company. Many even believe that this man was a military man before entering the business. However, the inner circle claims the opposite. You can tell a little about how it all began and how Igor Yakovlev and his brother Oleg were able to build such a successful business.
It is reliably known, for example, that the construction of the company actually began from a complete zero and without any support from any of the FIGs. One of the decisive success factors was that it was this man who 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 common practice to charge a fee at each customs post from every passing truck.
Some talk about the fact that after the calculations of the costs that go to the usual delivery of goods were carried out, it was decided to hire a convoy, and the same company that worked at the posts. The important thing is that hiring such a convoy was much cheaper than overcoming all the posts yourself. And this, of course, entailed the fact that the goods began to be sold at a greater profit than competitors who did not guess to do the same.
However, it will 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 commonplace, and it consisted in the usual lack of funds. This is precisely what served as a means of saving literally everything and looking for such savings as a convoy.