Growth in Russian ceramic brick market

Demand for Russian ceramic bricks is expected to grow by more than a fifth in the year to March 31 2012, according to national experts. The market grew by 20.7% during the first eight months of 2011, after recording an 18% rise to 5.2billion ceramic bricks in 2010-11.

March 26, 2012 Read time: 1 min

Demand for Russian ceramic bricks is expected to grow by more than a fifth in the year to March 31 2012, according to national experts.

The market grew by 20.7% during the first eight months of 2011, after recording an 18% rise to 5.2billion ceramic bricks in 2010-11.

Russian market expands as SME culture grows

The biggest country in the world, with probably the most diverse geology, Russia is also a relative newcomer to some of the Western business practices and attitudes that its global counterparts take for granted. After the collapse of communism, Russia had no SME style businesses as we see them in the West - dynamic and aggressive developers of new markets and ideas that can move geographically and economically to fill voids in the marketplace.