AST Publishing Group

The main principle of work is to provide the reader with the widest possible choice of literature that meets his interests. The publishing house publishes books of various directions and genres, both world famous writers and completely new works by unknown authors, as well as multi-volume colorful children's encyclopedias, various anthologies, educational and educational publications. Under the trademarks of the AST publishing group there are a variety of stationery, coloring books, toy books, mosaic books, puzzles, board games and puzzles of various levels of complexity for children and adults, detailed and colorful guides and atlases, audiobooks, books in electronic format, calendars.

Performance indicators

2024: Revenue growth by 10% to 9.5 billion rubles

At the end of 2024, AST Publishing House received 9.51 billion rubles in revenue. This is 9.6% more compared to the previous year, when the figure was 8.68 billion rubles. At the same time, the cost of sales rose by 20.3% - from 5.34 billion rubles to 6.42 billion rubles. Such data are reflected in the financial statements, which TAdviser got acquainted with in mid-April 2025.

Commercial expenses on an annualized basis rose by 26.4% - from 418.24 million rubles to 528.86 million rubles. Management expenses amounted to 986.74 million rubles, which is 19.2% more than in 2023, when they amounted to 828.13 million rubles. Accounts receivable decreased from 3.76 billion rubles to 3.48 billion rubles, that is, by 7.5%. Accounts payable decreased by 20.9% - from 671.86 million rubles to 531.49 million rubles.

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Gross profit fell year-on-year by 7.6%, reaching 3.09 billion rubles against 3.34 billion rubles in 2023. Profit from sales decreased by a quarter - from 2.09 billion rubles to 1.57 billion rubles. At the same time, profit before taxation jumped by 77.3%, reaching 2.67 billion rubles against 1.51 billion rubles in 2023. The publishing house recorded a net profit of 2.27 billion rubles, which is 133.6% more than in 2023, when 971.14 million rubles were received.

Revenues from the sale of products, goods, works and services increased by 6.3% - from 8.38 billion rubles to 8.91 billion rubles, and revenues from lease payments, license payments, royalties, commissions and other similar payments increased by 87.1% - from 266.57 million rubles to 498.71 million rubles. Payments to suppliers (contractors) for raw materials, materials, works and services rose by 19.3% - from 5.01 billion rubles to 5.97 billion rubles. Expenses in connection with the remuneration of workers amounted to 1.82 billion rubles against 1.47 billion rubles in 2023 (plus 24.4%).^[1]

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