O'KEY GROUP SA announced the appointment of Pavel Tomanek as sales director for Northwest and South and Ivan Styk as sales director for center, Urals and Siberia, both reporting directly to the company's CEO Heigo Kera. Ivan and Pavel will focus on developing and implementing the company's strategy in order to reinforce its strong foothold in the retail landscape, enhance sales performance and drive profitability in regions, as well as introduce the most advanced and innovative best practices. Pavel Tomanek has a proven track record in retail with 15 years of experience in major international retail chains.

From 2012 to 2015, Pavel served as operational director for X5 Retail Group. Prior to this, he worked for Lenta managing its operational and logistics agenda in 27 hypermarkets proceeded by the position of regional manager at Tesco in the Czech Republic (13 hypermarkets). Ivan Styk has a comprehensive expertise and strong skills in commerce, business strategy, supply chain, office operational support and finance.

Ivan was managing regional offices of Tesco, delivering operational excellence in the UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia and India. Vladislav Kurbatov has made a decision to leave the company and pursue other career interests. During his 13 years at O'KEY, he made his way from department manager for manufactured products in the first O'KEY hypermarket in St.

Petersburg to the group sales director.