Alfa Group
Fridman's Alfa Group founded the "Perekrestok" (also transliterated "Perekriostok") chain of supermarkets in Moscow in 1995. Through a merger with the "Pyatyorochka" (also transliterated "Pyaterochka") supermarket chain, which had been founded in St. Petersburg in 1999 by Alexander Girda and Andrey Rogachev, Alfa Group founded the X5 Retail Group in 2006. X5 acquired another grocer, "Kopeyka", for $1.65 billion in December 2010. X5 is Russia's largest food retailer in terms of sales.