Top-management
Alexey Zozulia
Executive director of Foxtrot trading network
Period from 2005 to 2011 is connecting Alexey Zozulia with the Foxtrot group of companies. He built his career from the post of the head of regional retail trading service to the post of the operation director. From 2010 to 2011 he directed the project “Depot Development Group” – the one of Foxtrot group companies develops as the real estate management.
Then was a period from 2011 to 2013 when Alexey Zozulia worked with others retailers. He headed the “Farmastor” company, which include pharmacy network “Good day drugstore” and “The Family drugstore”. From 2013 to 2018 he was the operation director in the EVA number of shops.
Alexey Zozulia came back in Foxtrot on the post of trading management director in March 2019.
Alexey’s Zozulia mission is to save lead position of the brand, to provide quality and quantitative business growth rate in both direction (online and offline). He will continue internal reforms which have already started to keep the main retailer competitive advantage – confidence and loyalty of customers to Foxtrot.
In 2019, the company announced a comprehensive reboot of the brand. For one and a half years of implementation of the strategy of the "white hub" format, the balance sheet of the reformers included 33 updated stores and 4 completely new outlets.In 2020, the Foxtrot team and O. Zozulia were the first in the reatail who realize the possibility for buyers to receive electronica checks instead of regular, paper ones. For this reason, the trading network has implemented Checkbox software (software for payment transaction registrars) since September. The team received a diploma of the national competition Smart Awards Ukraine-2020 in the nomination "Smart Retail" for the introduction of the product "Electronic Check"
In 2022, the magazine Forbes-Ukraine identified Foxtrot as a Ukrainian company that, during the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, proved to be more stable than others, was able to preserve and sometimes increase its business.
In 2023, by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhny, dated January 6, 2023, Oleksiy Zozulia was awarded the badge "For the assistance of the army" "For a significant personal contribution to the provision of comprehensive assistance to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, active volunteering in the conditions of martial law."
Vladimir Nikitenko,
Commercial Director DEPOT Development Group
Since 2003 Vladimir Nikitenko as senior manager specialized in the leasing of retail space, launching and managing shopping centers, audit and real estate development in Ukraine.
He headed the processes associated with finding tenants and signing leases in Kiev and regions, coordinated team of brokers working on projects. Among the gained experience - skills to represent the interests of owners of real estate participate in the process of advising clients in the development of the concepts of shopping centers, business plans, zoning of commercial space, as well as in the development of the basic conditions of the lease.
The main activity of Vladimir Nikitenko in the status of the commercial director of DDG - the achievement of a mutually beneficial commercial terms of lease transactions with international and national operators of the retail market; involvement in the regions of anchor tenants for the development of civilized trade formats. Also, another project headed by Vladimir, is the development of children's entertainment center, Fantasy Town. During the work of Vladimir Nikitenko as commercial director of DDG following results were achieved:/p>
- The development of the entertainment business, as one of components of Depo't center;
- The achievement of positive dynamics reduction of vacant retail space;
- The establishment of communication between the company and the regional offices.