A new breed of industrial group

In Russia, large financial-industrial groups exist alongside a new breed of commercially-minded and successful industrial groups that have made their money by more traditional and honest means.

       
Roland Nash

Until the 1998 crisis big business in Russia was all about the financial-industrial groups (FIGs). Several died in the crisis, but the survivors still play an important role and have been forced to change their ways. At the same time a new breed of commercially-minded and successful industrial groups, the new industrial groups (NIGs), which have made their money by more traditional (and honest) means, have joined them.

“There is a big legacy issue,” says Erik Kraus, head of strategy at NIKoil, a Russian investment bank.

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