Krasnodar, September 18, 2014: Executives of “Magnit”, Russia’s largest retailer (MICEX and LSE: MGNT), have been included in the list of top business leaders and named the best in the industry as rated by the Russian Managers Association and Kommersant

“Magnit” CEO Sergey Galitskiy has been included in the list of top business leaders of ХV “TOP-1000 Russian Managers” ratings for 2014 prepared by the Russian Managers Association and Kommersant. The list of business leaders includes businessmen and leading top-managers.

Another three “Magnit” executives are among top five in the industry: Khachatur Pombukhchan was ranked first in the CFO rating, Oleg Goncharov was ranked first in the HR Director rating and Marina Ivanova was ranked second in the Commercial Directors rating.

“TOP-1000 Russian managers” rating of the Russian Managers Association is the instrument of professional reputation evaluation of the Russian top-managers. The rating summarizes the year-end results of work and reveals the most professional managers of Russia.

The rating methodology is based on “the best choose the best” principle: top-managers evaluate top-managers, functional managers evaluate functional managers.

Please follow the link below to view “TOP-1000 Russian managers” rating for 2014 in full: http://www.kommersant.ru/apps/82606

Magnit executives have been included in the list of business leaders and named the best in the industry