Leroy Merlin digital

History

2022: Establishing a Company

On October 11, 2022, it became known about the creation of Leroy Merlin Digital Technologies. This "daughter" of the chain of stores for repair, according to the SPARK-Interfax system, is engaged in software development, and its head is Viktor Kisilenko, who holds the positions of general director in companies in Moscow, Kaliningrad and the Kemerovo region.

According to Vedomosti, retailers have intensified the registration of IT subsidiaries. If such subsidiaries receive accreditation from the Ministry of Digital Science as IT companies, their employees will be able to receive a deferral from mobilization in accordance with the decision of the Ministry of Defense. On September 23, 2022, the military department announced that certain categories of citizens, including employees of IT companies, were not involved in partial mobilization. As the Ministry of Digital Industry later clarified, employees with specialized education working in companies accredited in the ministry's register can apply for a deferral.

Creation of Leroy Merlin Digital Technologies

After the start of the special operation, there was the first surge in accreditation of IT companies - in April-March 2022, the number of companies registered in the register of the Ministry of Digital Science more than doubled. At the end of summer, accreditation was temporarily closed. The agency has introduced new accreditation rules: for example, now it can be received by companies whose revenue from IT activities is at least 30%, the publication reports.

Earlier, IT companies created supermarket chains O'key"" and "ABC of Taste," as well as Всеинструменты.ру"," a network of shoe stores Kari and L'Etoile"."

The new accreditation procedure Ministry of Digital Science RUSSIAN FEDERATION was presented in October 2022. At the same time, the head of the department Maksut Shadayev clarified that large firms can allocate subsidiaries to IT in order to meet new revenue requirements.^[1]

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