Rostoner

Production of toner and cartridges for copying and multiplying equipment. Resident of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tatarstan.

2022: Svetlana Nikiforova, ex-wife of ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, closed Rostoner and Startobaza

According to the Kontur.Focus service, on February 2, 2022, the Rostoner company was liquidated, which intended to establish the production of cartridges for printers, copying and multiplying equipment in Russia. The plant, which opened with fanfare in August 2018 in the Alabuga free economic zone (Tatarstan), did not work.

The shareholders of the company were three individuals, among them - Svetlana Nikiforova, the ex-wife of ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, in 2020 the couple separated. The liquidator of the company was Naila Tazieva, general director of Rustoner Service, which is engaged in the repair of computers and peripheral computer equipment. The company "MPS.Centr," which belonged to the venture capital company "Startobaz" and also participated in the launch of cartridge production in Tatarstan, ceased to exist in December 2020. (more)

2018: Svetlana Nikiforova became a co-owner of Rostoner

At the end of August 2018, Svetlana Nikiforova, the wife of ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, became a co-owner of Rostoner. According to the Kontur.Focus database, it owns 47.5% of the company.

Nikiforov's stake was acquired from another co-owner of Rostoner, the president of MaykorSergey Sulgin, an outsourcing company that previously owned 95% of the company.

Svetlana Nikiforova acquired a stake in Rostoner from Maykor President Sergei Sulgin "(photo - crimerussia.com)"

Rostoner is not the only company in which Nikiforova and Sulgin jointly participate. Partners are also co-founders of MPS.Centr. Nikiforova, through the 100% company Startobaza owned by her, owns a stake in MPS.Centr, and Sulgin acquired a stake in it in August 2018.

Then in August, MPS.Centr and Rostoner announced the launch of a plant for the production of toner and cartridges for copying and multiplying equipment, calling it the first in Russia. It is located in the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan.

Rostoner participates in the project as a manufacturer, and MPS.Centr as an IT and service company that provides a print service and develops print management software in organizations. More details here.