DKO Electronshchik

History

2023

Shutdown

One of the largest Russian online retail stores of electronic components, DKO Electronshchik, announced the termination of its work. A message about this appeared on the company's website, at the end of May 2023, attention was paid to it in specialized online communities. In a statement, DKO Electronshchik also says that "the obligations taken before will be fulfilled."

The operator of the online store by phone, indicated on the DKO Electronshchik website, confirms that the company really stops its work, but will fulfill the orders already made.

The company does not specify the reasons for the termination of operations. But it is known that on May 19, 2023, it was among about 30 Russian importing companies and electronics manufacturers that the United States included^[1] sanctions list^[2]

"DKO Electronshchik" in May 2023 was included in the American sanctions list

Other companies on the same list include TD Promelectronics (one of the largest suppliers of electronic components in Russia), Elitan Trade LLC (a large distributor and warehouse aggregator of electronic components), SMT-Aylogik LLC (contract development and board assembly), Symmetron Electronic Components (distribution of electronic components in the Russian Federation and Belarus), NPO Android Technology (developer of the rescue robot Fedor) and many others.

Since May 19, the company's Telegram channel has not been updated, then its page on the VK social network became unavailable.

DKO Electronshchik is a retail structure related to the companies of the umbrella brand Compel. The founder of "DKO Electronshchik," according to the database of legal entities "Kontur. Focus," is "Rba-Group," which as of May 2023 is also the founder of the existing companies "Compel SPB," PA "Contract Electronics" (works in the contract electronics production market), "BELIV" (trade in electronic components).

In the explanations to the financial accounting of DKO Electronshchik for 2022, published in the open database of the Federal Tax Service, Boris Rudnyak is indicated as the beneficial owner of this company as of December 2022. It was also announced at the end of 2022 by the beneficial owner of Compel JSC in explanations to the financial accounting of this legal entity, also published in the database of the Federal Tax Service. DKO Electronshchik calls Compel its partner.

DKO Electronshchik in 2022 received revenue of 978 million rubles with an increase of 8%. The company ended the year with a net loss of 9.4 million rubles.

Clients of DKO Electronshchik, which positions itself as a hypermarket for electronics workers, are mainly small companies, individual entrepreneurs and radio amateurs.

Compel JSC is the largest legal entity in terms of revenue among the group's companies. Its turnover in 2022 amounted to 15.1 billion rubles, having decreased by 4% compared to 2021, and net profit - 594.2 million rubles, having decreased by almost 51%.

TAdviser sent a request to Compel regarding the termination of DKO Electronshchik, but at the time of publication of the material, the company was unable to provide comments.

From the explanations to the financial reporting of Compel JSC for 2022, it follows that it decided to stop such an activity as contract production. The other day, Kommersant wrote that Russia has a persistent tendency towards the reluctance of domestic companies developing electronics to produce it at Russian factories. With reference to the executive director of the Association of Developers and Manufacturers of Electronics (ARPE) Ivan Pokrovsky, the newspaper reported that over the year, about 10% of such organizations^[3].

Inclusion in the US sanctions list

On May 19, 2023, it became known that the US Treasury Department included in the sanctions list about 30 importing companies and electronics manufacturers that supplied goods to Russia or were engaged in their production on Russian territory. This list also includes the DKO Electronshchik company. Read more here.

Russian IT companies that fell under US, EU and British sanctions in 2022-2024 TAdviser map

TAdviser has drawn up a map the Russian IT of -companies that fell under sanctions in 2022-2024. and USA EU. Britain It included, among other things, the DKO Electronshchik company. The article about the map can be found here.

90s: Building a company

The company "House of Components and Equipment" Electronshchik "(" DKO Electronshchik ") was formed in 1993. In 2014, in an interview with the Vremya Electronika portal, Boris Rudnyak said that DKO Electronshchik was the start of a business in the field of electronic components, which he decided to do in the early^[4].

At that time, there was an easy and reliable way to go to Singapore, which then, one might say, specialized in selling electronic components. That's what we did. They brought a suitcase of components, but they could only sell it by half. The first pancake came out, perhaps not a coma, but you can't call it successful either. But already, starting from the second trip, we practically did not make mistakes. DKO "Electronshchik," which exists safely to this day, is the beginning of our business, - quotes Boris Rudnyak "Electronics Time." - Then we found that the components of the same name are sometimes bought from us in batches of 200-300 pcs. Repairmen will not make such purchases. We became interested in this phenomenon and found out that we purchase our components for the production of small series of different electronic products. This is how we discovered another area of ​ ​ application of our efforts. To supply components to production companies, we organized "COMPEL," the name is derived from the phrase "electronic components."

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