Yakovlev Igor: "Eldorado"

The full name of a successful businessman is Yakovlev Igor Nikolaevich. He was born in 1965.

Businessman Igor Yakovlev

It starts with the fact that this person received education in two higher educational institutions. He graduated first Dagestan Polytechnic Institute, after that he was educated at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of the Interior. People who were closely acquainted with him, as well as all his relatives say that Yakovlev Igor was 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 allowed him to become such a successful businessman.

The history of "Eldorado"

It was under the leadership of Igor Yakovlev that the trade network "Eldorado" began to grow rapidly and gain momentum. Initially, the 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 very history of such a grandiose success began long before that. It is commonly believed that things have gone uphill since Yakovlev opened his first store in Saratov in the distant 1994. At the present time, the stores of this trade network are located on the territory not only of Russia but also of Ukraine. In total, there are about 110 stores that sell household appliances. In addition, the company has opened 387 communication stores, which are also located on the territory of Russia and Ukraine. At the present time, Yakovlev Igor has been the undisputed leader of this company for 15 years already.

The success of the firm

But if everyone knows the success story, only a few know how difficult it was to build such a huge company. Many even believe that this man was a military man before coming into business. However, the close environment claims the opposite. Little can be told about how it all began and how Igor Yakovlev and his brother Oleg were able to build such a successful business.

It is well known, for example, that the construction of the company began in reality from the full zero and without any support from any of the FIGs. One of the decisive factors for success was that this person 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 Yakovlev Igor started to build his business, it was a common practice to charge at every customs post from every passing wagon.

Some say that after the cost calculations were made that go to the normal delivery of cargo, it was decided to hire a convoy, and the same company that worked in the posts. It is important that it was much cheaper to hire such an escort than to independently overcome all the posts. And this, of course, entailed the fact that the goods began to sell at a higher profit rate than those of competitors who did not know how to do it.

However, it will be fair to say that this move was not dictated by the fact that Yakovlev Igor was a management genius or someone like that. The reason was far more banal, and it consisted of a usual shortage of money. This is what served as the fact that you had to save literally everything and look for such savings as an escort.