KORUS Consulting has introduced a new department - Retail Business Consulting. This dept will provide consulting services to retail companies in the field of business processes establishing.

The main goal of Retail Business Consulting dept is helping trade companies and retail networks in optiomization of business processes. The new dept will provide a wide range of consulting services, including building systems of departments relationships within holding companies and management companies, developing working conceptions of the trade company, generating plans of its strategic development, defining price and goods range policy, optimizing local tasks. According to ideology of implementation of regular management technologies by KORUS Consulting, this stage is preceding for information system implementation.

Introducing of a new dept is related to wide experience of KORUS Consulting in cooperation with different companies working in this industry. KORUS Consulting has carried out a number of successful projects of setablishing regular management technologies in largest trading netwoks in Russia. The company offers anindustry solution for retail networks Axapta Retail (based on ERP system Microsoft Axapta), Infostore solution (based on Microsoft Navision), and EDI service Ц electronic documents exchange between tradig networks, their suppliers and vendors. In 2004 KORUS Consulting was awarded with Golden Scales prize for outstanding achievements in the field of equipping trade companies "For effective adaptation of western management system and its implementation on Russian retail market". As Igor Shirokov, KORUS Consulting General Manager, says, the given industry has always been one of the most important fields for the company, thus the creation of the new department will help it offer existing and new customers really integrated service.

KORUS Consulting is Gold Certified Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. KORUS Consulting is also the official representative and Platinum Certified Consulting partner of Geac (Comshare Inc.). KORUS Consulting specializing in implementing of regular management technologies. Among its clients are O'Kay hypermarket network, DIXIS communications hardware network, Technoshock consumer electronics network, Paterson network, Stroybaza Rybinskaya, Svyazinvest, Severstaltrans, Moldavsky Metallurgichesky Zavod, Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod, Solikamsky Magnievy Zavod, Sredneuralsky Medeplavilny Zavod, Akrikhin Chemical Pharmaceutical Factory, KMB Bank and others.