date:Mar 21, 2013
The country's food retail chains have expanded rapidly over the past few years and are now facing increased competition for consumers who often have a choice between three or four supermarkets in a single street in bigger cities.
Own-branded products tend to have less impact on retailers' margins as they are unmarketed and sold by their producers at hefty discounts for higher-volume deals.
Dixy chief executive officer Ilya Yakubson said he expected the share of such products to rise to 15 perc