Euroset Retail LLC filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Rus Company LLC in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. The retailer requires 150 million rubles in compensation for losses incurred due to the supply of defective devices by
Samsung . While there is a pre-trial dispute.
The head
of Euroset, Alexander Malis, previously reported that the company will file a lawsuit against Samsung if the issue with the manufacturer’s supply marriage is not resolved before August 25. Then the amount of 180 million rubles was voiced. This figure evolved "from the retailer's expenses to eliminate problems with the marriage of Samsung devices."
Due to the same problems in June
, Svyaznoy , Euroset,
MegaFon ,
VimpelCom suspended purchases of Samsung smartphones. For individual batches of Samsung, the marriage rate is up to 6-7%. While the acceptable level of marriage in the market should not exceed 1%. From October, Samsung devices can completely disappear from the shelves of the largest retailers.
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“We are in an open dialogue and we expect that at some point it will lead to positive results. Negotiations include, among other things, monetary compensation for Svyaznoy, reports the representative of Svyaznoy Maria Zaikina. “Some of the manufacturers compensate for the replacement or repair of devices by the client. Samsung in some cases does not fully compensate, in others it does not compensate at all, ”she added.
According to the research company
GFK , in the first half of the year Samsung occupied almost 23% of the total volume of the Russian smartphone market (from 7 thousand rubles and more) in physical terms. However, since then the company has passed its positions.
As the GFK report shows, from the beginning of June 2015 to mid-July, the share of Samsung smartphones in the Russian market in piece terms fell from 25.6 to 17.6%. According to Svyaznoy, the share of Samsung in the Russian smartphone market over the past month and a half has shrunk by more than 25% (in money), RBC
reports .
Today it became known that Samsung Electronics announced plans to reduce 10% of employees working at the company's headquarters,
writes Bloomberg. The profit of Samsung Electronics falls for five consecutive months. The company's capitalization has
decreased by more than $ 40 billion since April 2015, amid low sales of Galaxy S6 smartphones.