New Top Management Appointments in OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding

By Prne, Gaea News Network
Sunday, June 14, 2009

MOSCOW - OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding, the leading casual-dining operator in Russia and the CIS (RTS, MICEX, ticker: ROST), announces key management appointments.

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Sergey Beshev is appointed as President and CEO of Rosinter Restaurants Holding. Prior to joining Rosinter Restaurant Holding, Mr. Beshev headed the Moscow-region operations at MTS, a leading telecommunication company in Russia.

Rosinter Restaurants Holding’s Board of Directors has approved the appointment of current President and CEO Lori Daytner to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Both appointments are effective as of June 15th 2009.

Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco, Chairman of the Board, OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding:

“First of all, the Board of Directors would like to thank Lori Daytner for her superb contribution as President and CEO, leading our team to achieve success in key strategic goals. Under Lori’s leadership the company completed successfully our IPO on the Russian stock exchange, rolled out an impressive geographical expansion and implemented major steps to optimize all of our business processes. We have always known that Lori’s passion and vocation has been the restaurant operations, and we are very enthusiastic to have her fully devoted to this critical area from now on. We also would like to welcome to our team Sergey Beshev, one of Russia’s most experienced professional managers, and wish him all the best. By bringing Sergey to lead our organization, we are adding renewed energy, perspective and experience to our team at a fascinating moment for our organization and for our markets. We are confident that Sergey, Lori and the rest of our top management team will bond effectively to ensure continued market leadership and ongoing value for our guests, shareholders, staff, partners and suppliers”.

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Sergey Beshev. June 2009 - President, OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding.

Before joining Rosinter, Mr. Beshev had an extensive management experience in the telecommunication sector in Russia. He was the Moscow Region director of MTS from 2007 till March 2009, previously he held the position of Commercial Director of AKADO Telecommunications from 2005 to 2007, and from 2001 to 2005 he worked in MegaFon being Commercial Director in MegaFon-Moscow his final position. Mr. Beshev worked also as a business-development manager for Motorola’s office in Germany from 1997 to 2001. His career started as a consultant at Deloitte&Touche in 1996. Sergey Beshev graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute majoring in systems engineering. He took his MBA degree from Plekhanov Russian Economics Academy in1996.

Lori Daytner. June 2009 - Chief Operating Officer, OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding.

Ms. Lori Daytner has been 17 years with Rosinter Restaurant Holding and her last position has been as President and CEO from 2006 to 2009. Ms. Daytner first joined Rosinter as a Training Manager in 1992 and since then she worked at various positions: Assistant Operations Director (1993-1996), HR Director (1996-1998), New Business Development Director (1998), and General Manager for Europe (2001-2006). Lori Daytner completed her BA degree in PR from Slippery Rock University (USA).

OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding is the leading casual dining restaurant company that operates 337 outlets in Russia, the CIS and Central Europe, including Baltic countries (as of December 31, 2008). The Company offers Italian, Japanese, American and Russian cuisine under its proprietary brands IL Patio, Planet Sushi and 1-2-3 Cafe and its licensed brands T.G.I. Friday’s and Sibirskaya Corona. Also, through a Joint Venture with Whitbread PLC (LSE ticker WTB.L) the company is currently developing the Costa Coffee chain in Russia (12 outlets as of December 31, 2008). The Group reported consolidated revenues of US$ 268.2 million, in accordance with its audited IFRS accounts, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007. Rosinter Restaurants Holding is listed in RTS (www.rts.ru) and MICEX (www.micex.ru) under the stock ticker ROST.

Investors and analysts enquiries: Amin Muci Head of Investor Relations Eduard Pilipenko Deputy Head of Investor Relations e-mail ir@rosinter.ru Office + 7-495-788-44-88 ext. 2108, 2175 Press enquiries: Valeria Silina PR director Ekaterina Korobkova Press-secretary e-mail: 2pr@rosinter.ru tel.: +7-495-788-44-88 ext. 2426 www.rosinter.com/press/releases/

Source: Rosinter Restaurant Holding

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