Portrait of Sergei Galitsky

Rank #1367

Sergei Galitsky

Net worth $3.1B

Retail · Russia

Born
Aug 14, 1967
Age
58
Source
Retail
Residence
Krasnodar
Citizenship
Russia
Marital status
Widowed
Children
1
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Kuban State University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Sergei Galitsky is the founder of Magnit, one of Russia's biggest supermarket chains and cosmetics retailers with more than 30,000 stores in 2024.
  • Galitsky was CEO of Magnit until February 2018 when he sold almost all of his shares in the company to the state bank VTB for $2.4 billion.
  • Galitsky got his start in 1994 as a perfume and beauty supplies wholesaler.
  • An admirer of Wal-Mart, he opened his first grocery store in 1998 and advertised using the slogan "Always Low Prices."
  • He took the company public in 2006.
  • Galitsky owns the soccer team Krasnodar and a soccer academy. He has invested about $460 million in a new soccer stadium nicknamed Galiseum by local journalists.
  • Galitsky spent $70 million on a park near his soccer stadium, planting 2,500 trees.
  • With his brother-in-law, Galitsky owns a 173-acre winery that will soon be selling wine under the Galitsky & Galitsky label.

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