e-Style (group of companies)

History

2011: List of companies included in e-Style

Companies in the group operate in the mass and corporate markets:

• e-Style - Group Management Company

• Cyril and Methodius - Production of multimedia content in the field of education and culture
• New Media Generation (NMG) - Distribution Software, Publishing (Publishing)
• ComputerPlaza - Sale of computing equipment and software products via the Internet
• KM-online - Creation and operation of broadband broadcasting channel built on Internet technologies
• TravelShop - Ticket sales and hotel reservations online
• e-Style ISP - Internet access, hosting services
• e-Style SoftwareHouse - Custom Software Development
• The highest grade is the development of programs for the comprehensive automation of the financial and economic activities of small and medium-sized enterprises.

2004

"I am more likely a creative and visionary," Rudnikov told about himself in an interview with Forbes in 2004. I deliberately went into the shadows to implement my ideas. " At this time, Rudnikov worked as president of the e-Style group of companies, general director of KM Online LLC (KM.RU brand).

Three years later, the transfer of R-Style's founding father to e-Style looked like a voluntary reference. According to the Expert RA rating agency, R-Style's business volume in 2003 amounted to almost $300 million. The turnovers of e-Style are difficult to compare with "er-style" - according to some market participants, they are at least an order of magnitude smaller. The largest income, according to Rudnikov, is brought to him by the production and sale of "content," as well as offshore programming.

As in the mid-1990s, Rudnikov has no shortage of bold, risky ideas. e-Style, for example, posts paid texts of books on the Internet and is at war with free libraries that undermine this business. "Someone has to be first," Rudnikov explains. "We're setting legal precedents. The Internet is becoming part of the legal framework. "

2003: Issue of the free accounting program "VS: Accounting "

Another extraordinary undertaking is the release of a free accounting program. Having mastered the freely distributed single-player version, customers, according to the head of e-Style, will begin to switch to paid multiplayer. The project is called "VS: Accounting." "VS" is the "highest grade," opposed to the "first grade" "1C: Accounting," the product of the company " 1C," which at that time controlled more than 60% of the Russian market for mass financial software.

"VS: Accounting" entered the market in the summer of 2003. Now, according to the head of e-Style, the product has about 30,000 registered users. About 5,000 are regularly interested in updates. Not much for such a powerful industry.

2001: Separation of the company within the R-Style holding under the leadership of Vyacheslav Rudnikov

In the late 1990s, Vasily Vasin increasingly solved operational issues at R-Style - including those that were not formally within his sphere of competence. And in 1999, the new alignment of forces was legally enshrined: Vasin became the president of the R-Style holding, and Vyacheslav Rudnikov headed the board of founders - "something like a corporate parliament." And in February 2001, he also became president of the created sister group of companies e-Style, which included multimedia and Internet projects supervised by him.

Rudnikov retained significant influence throughout the R-Style holding. But he still spent most of his time with his encyclopedias, libraries and games. He also traveled, photographed a lot. "More and more time is starting to be devoted to the non-working side of my life. I hope this process will continue, "he said in 2001 in an interview with the specialized publication IT-Daily.

Within the framework of R-Style, over the past few years, companies focused on non-standard business models have developed, teams have been created that professionally work in the field of Internet intranet solutions, offshore programming, consulting, system integration, multimedia games, encyclopedic, educational programs. The step of further development was the separation of a number of already established companies within the R-Style, as well as several new companies into the e-Style holding.

"How did Vasin force Rudnikov to share power?" reasoned one of the company's former managers in 2004, who asked not to be named. "I think it was an urgent necessity. Rudnikov is indispensable when you need to do something quickly, "at the level of an explosion." And for years to pull out, say, system integration into a normal business - this he does not know how. I have a feeling that in the holding R-Style, only Vasin can do it. "