Apple reportedly is putting the final touches on a deal that would open a retail location near the Kremlin in Moscow. The 16,000-square-foot site would be in a historic Red Square hotel alongside an international restaurant and gallery.
Although no contract has been signed, two executives from the Cupertino, Calif. company visited Moscow in March to review the two-story space in Hotel Moskva and a decision is expected soon, according to a news site which tracks Apple’s retail moves. If a deal is inked, the location would be the first Apple Store in any of the former Soviet Union republics.
Apple’s attention has largely been on getting a foothold in China. Russia, however, could be the target of the company’s next international push. The iPhone maker reportedly sold 1.8 million of its handsets to Russian fans.
In other retail news, Apple is readying an October launch of its second Utah store. The firm is planning to open a store within the Murray, Ut. Fashion Place mall, just eight miles from another Apple location in Salt Lake City, according to ifoAppleStore.
[AppleInsider, ifoAppleStore, 9to5Mac]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
10 responses to “Report: Apple Store May Land in Moscow Later this Year”
In soviet russia, shop opens you.
Finally, official store. Fed up with all these bloody resalers adding up to 40% price markup.
*resellers, sorry
Either the BEST place in the world to work when a new product comes out (No need to stand in line for your iPad 3, Mr Prokhorov. And thank you for the lovely Ferrari), or the WORST place in the world (No Mr Putin, I don’t know how cold it is in Kamchatka today, and there are truly only these 5 iPads in the entire country).
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