ITM Group Integrated Trade Marketing

ITM is a company providing a range of trade and marketing services in all trade channels (distribution of goods, merchandising, development and production of POS materials (POSM), loyalty programs and trainings for personnel, "event marketing" and audit of retail outlets) to manufacturing companies and distributors in Russia and the CIS countries. Since 2010, ITM has been part of the leading German trade marketing group Combera and the European alliance EPMG, bringing together trade marketing agencies from 22 countries, including Eastern European countries and Turkey.

History

2025: Liquidation

At the end of December 2025, it became known about the liquidation of the Russian advertising company ITM Group (Ai-TI-Em Group LLC). She specialized in projects in the fields of marketing and sales in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries.

LLC "AI-TI-EM Group" was registered in Moscow in August 2014; the authorized capital is 577,770 rubles. The main area of ​ ​ work is the activities of advertising agencies. The company, as noted by the Kommersant newspaper, was part of the European marketing holding Combera Group.

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According to SPARK-Interfax, AI-TI-EM Group was declared bankrupt: bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against it in May 2024. The Unified State Register of Legal Entities says that as of December 22, 2025, the enterprise is in the process of liquidation.

In April 2025, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, at the request of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, arrested in absentia the former general director of ITM Group Yaroslav Plinka. He is accused of committing crimes under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Art. 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: tax evasion on an especially large scale. Such acts are punishable by a fine in the amount of 200 thousand to 500 thousand rubles or in the amount of the salary or other income of the convicted person for a period of one to three years or imprisonment for up to five years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years. In addition, in February 2025, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow adopted a statement of claim from Alfa-Bank to recover credit debt from Plinka.^[1]

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