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16+ billion rubles
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Ginza Project
Four crises in twenty years. 150 restaurants built through counter-cyclical expansion. The empire that grows when competitors close.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
Succession Ready
Founder-led brands at transition points—second-generation involvement, legacy planning, or professionalization—creating natural catalysts for partnership and investment.
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Transition Timing
Succession readiness signifies founder openness to growth partnerships and professional expertise. These transition moments provide brands access to capital, strategic guidance, and networks needed to accelerate growth while preserving founder legacy and company culture.
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Resilient Brands
60% growth (2023)
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Benns Ethicoa
Malaysian cacao crashed 99.9%. This company pays farmers 3x market rates and won the country's first international chocolate awards.
Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
RM10-20M (estimated)
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A Cut Above
A 428-square-foot salon became Malaysia's premier hairstyling academy after an 8-location express chain taught its founder when to cut losses.
Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
~USD 200M
REVENUE
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Sela
Hebrew name. Israeli design. Chinese production. Russian stores. Boris Ostrobrod disguised "Russian" as "foreign" when domestic meant cheap.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
$1.8M
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Resilience Profile
ESSE
Igor Samsonov died at 46. Eleven months later, Forbes crowned ESSE Winery of the Year. His quality systems outlived him—Crimea's boldest bet.
Dolinnoe, Crimea 🇷🇺
$60-80M
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Abrau-Durso
When 2022 sanctions shut Western markets, Abrau-Durso tripled China sales in 90 days—152 years of heritage opening doors startups can't.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Profiled Brands
Château André
28 trips to French wine regions over six years—before planting a single vine. Now his daughter manages succession toward 1 million bottles.
Krymsk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Galitskiy & Galitskiy
After building Russia's largest retail chain, Forbes billionaire Sergey Galitskiy gave his son-in-law 49% of a winery—not for profit but legacy.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Elbuzd
A tax office worker borrowed at 24% interest to build Russia's first gravitational winery—and nearly lost everything before 2022 profitability.
Elbuzd, Rostov 🇷🇺
Uzunov
Four generations: Soviet workers → Fanagoria Chief Winemaker (35 years) → Russia's first family farm license → both sons involved.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
$5-10M
REVENUE
Lefkadia Valley
How does a Russian winery crack the World's Best Vineyards Top 30? Hire the man who made Château Mouton Rothschild a legend: Patrick Leon.
Moldavanskoe, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
$10-20M
REVENUE
Vedernikov Winery
750,000 rubles for one bottle at auction—a Russian wine record. The grapes? Krasnostop Zolotovsky, grown nowhere else commercially.
Konstantinovsk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Listed Brands
Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka, Rostov 🇷🇺
Marko
Grandfather's 20-year passion project: Stavropol's sixth farm winery with ungrafted Krasnostop vines, named for grandson Mark.
Donskaya Balka, Stavropol 🇷🇺
Domaine Lipko
A lawyer and Florida-trained golf professional turned winemaker on a Crimean Paleolithic archaeological site.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
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7 min
The Son Who Nearly Died Now Runs the Business
Marcus Teo's kidneys failed at two. His mother almost quit to save him. 34 years later, he runs the business—crisis forged both generations.
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18 min
67 Days: A Founder's Final Succession
67-day knowledge transfer. 'Winery of the Year' 12 months later. How Samsonov defied the 60-70% failure rate of founder transitions.
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8 min
The $548 Million Bet on Russian Terroir
$110M bet on overlooked Russian terroir everyone ignored. Fifteen years later, Lefkadia ranked World's Best Vineyards Top 30—ahead of Tuscany.