Smart-Holding Makes an Announcement on Situation Around Amstor Supermarkets

‘Dear employees of Amstor retail chain,

Smart-Holding, the owner of Amstor Group, continues to resume operations of its retail centres in Zaporozhye and throughout Ukraine. At the moment, the leaseholders of sales premises have full access to their outlets and are welcoming customers. However, counteractions of the retailer’s ex-manager Vladimir Vagorovskiy still hinder full restoration of the stores’ operations. Although the armed men acting on his orders have left the supermarkets, they had fully destroyed the IT infrastructure in a number of stores. Hard drives are missing from the cash registers, servers with databases, HR records and accounting documents had disappeared to an unknown destination. You are still receiving unlawful instructions to stay away from you workplaces.

Efficient recovery of all our retail operations depends on your active participation and support. We thank everyone who comes back to work and helps us do everything to welcome back our customers as soon as possible. We are working to restore the lists of employees and resume regular payments of wages.