Russia, yet the price growth reached its peak in August and September 2007.
As regards Sverdlovsk Region, the price race is actually comparable to that
in Moscow.
‘It all depends on a particular supplier and their pricing policies.
Nevyansk plant, for one, chose to freeze all the prices, whereas
Gornozavodskcement raises prices by 7% to 10% on a monthly basis,’ SK Master
Investment and Building Company’s Sales Manager Siamudin Agakhanov said to
local press.
There is a little profiteering at play as well. Prices have grown by nearly
one-third in the last two weeks alone; this has to do with both the cement
shortage and the producers and traders’ desire to make more money with the
help of a popular product,’ TSK Group’s Supply Director Dmitriy Gorshenin
says.
Mr. Agakhanov believes prices will keep going up for the next six months or
so, with perhaps a little halt in December and January. Yet the growth is
likely to resume as soon as February 2008.
