What is known about the buyer of the Russian business of McDonald's

Russian McDonald's restaurants will change their sign and will be managed by Kuzbass businessman Alexander Govor.RBC collected five facts about the new owner of the most famous catering chain Alexander Govor (third from left)

On Thursday, May 19, the American corporation McDonald's named the buyer of its Russian business - Alexander Govor, one of three local partners whose company GiD opened McDonald's franchise restaurants in Siberia. According to the terms of the deal, Govor buys "the entire restaurant portfolio of the chain and will further develop it under a new brand."

Employees of McDonald's restaurants will have to continue working under current conditions for two years, the company's press service said. The deal is expected to close in the coming weeks.

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McDonald's suspended the operation of 850 restaurants in Russia in early March. In mid-May, McDonald's announced that it had decided to permanently withdraw from the Russian market, as continuing to own a business in Russia "is no longer appropriate and does not correspond to the values" of the company.

What is known about the new owner of McDonald's restaurants - in the RBC review.

Honored Miner

Alexander Govor is a businessman from Novokuznetsk, born in 1960 in the village of Tochilino. In 1978, he graduated from the Kuznetsk Metallurgical College and began working as an assistant to a steelmaker of an open-hearth furnace at the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works, according to the website of the project "400 famous Novokuznetsk citizens".

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In 1979, Govor was drafted into the army and served in the frontier troops on the Chinese border. After demobilization, he went to work as a miner, began work at the Yubileinaya mine as an underground miner. By 1997, he became the general DIRECTOR of Yubileinaya, and later managed several more mines: Esaulskaya, Kusheyakovskaya and Novokuznetskaya.

Govor is an honored miner, has the titles of "Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry of the Russian Federation" and "Honored Miner of Kuzbass", holder of the "Miner's Glory" badge, was awarded the "Miner's Valor" and "Miner of Russia" gold badges.

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Investor in the oil industry

In 2007, Govor, together with his friend and partner Yuri Kushnerov, started building a major investment project in the north of the Kemerovo region - the Yaya oil refinery. The construction was carried out by the NefteKhimServis company, co-founded by Govor.

In 2021, the revenue of NeftekhimServis JSC, according to the SPARK system, amounted to 97.5 billion rubles, net profit - 483 million rubles. The founders of the company are not disclosed in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, but, according to Interfax, Govor owns 50% of JSC NeftekhimServis.

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Restaurateur and developer

Since 2015, Govor has been in the restaurant business and has become a partner of McDonald's. The GiD company he founded opened restaurants in Siberia under the brand name of an American company on a franchise basis.

Currently, there are 25 McDonald's restaurants in Siberia opened by GiD. The revenue of this company in 2021 amounted to 2 billion rubles, a net loss of 12.4 million rubles.

In addition, Govor is the former owner of the Inrusinvest development company and is on its board of directors. The company's projects include the Park Inn by Radisson hotel and the Grand Medica chain of private clinics in Novokuznetsk.

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Patron and collector

In Kuzbass, Govor is also known as a philanthropist: with his help, churches were built in the villages of Krasulino and Kostenkovo, as well as a chapel on Geroev Boulevard in Novokuznetsk.

In June 2019, Govor took part in the Beijing-Paris Rally as a pilot in a VAZ-2103 Zhiguli car from the collection of the Retropark Museum of Technology created with his participation.

MP's father

The son of Alexander Govor, Roman, is a deputy of the legislative assembly of the Kemerovo region from the United Russia faction. Roman Govor is a member of the committee on HEALTH and social protection of the population, as well as the committee on budget, tax policy and finance. In addition, Govor Jr. continues, as FORBES pointed out, to manage companies in various industries: he is the general director of the Hotel Management company specializing in the hotel business in the Kemerovo region, the general director of the Exima 2 Dental Clinic in the Novosibirsk region, to the board of directors of the Inrusinvest company and the clinics of Grand Medica LLC.

In the ranking of the richest civil servants and deputies of Russia for 2019, according to Forbes, Roman Govor ranked 78th, the total income of his family was estimated at 191.6 million rubles. For 2021, the deputy declared an income in the amount of 47.1 million rubles, his wife - 1.2 million rubles.