Teplitsky biography

Arkady Yuryevich Teplitsky-Russian entrepreneur, vice president of the Adamant holding, pioneer of the industry of shopping and entertainment centers in Russia, philanthropist. His mother - Teplitskaya Rabinovich Tamara Aizikovna - worked as a history teacher. Arkady’s childhood passed in Leningrad. In the year, he got out of the university, having received a diploma with a degree in water supply and sewage system, the qualification of the engineer-builder.

The Teplitsky Arkady began his career in his career in the year, and immediately in commercial organizations. These were the first, just appeared cooperatives of Leningrad. To the question, “where did the business of Arkady Teplitsky begin? When the future billionaire was 21 years old, he got a job. His duties included the formation of workers' brigades, which had to be recruited literally from the streets.

I had to work in terrible conditions. The basements were rented as production facilities: raw, periodically flooded, with poor wiring and ventilation. It was there that I had to comprehend the basics of business: at night to pour candles and pack. Products were directed for sale to Moscow, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod. Part was sold in Leningrad. A significant minus: the work was seasonal.

The rest of the time I had to idle. The first business that Teplitsky organized independently was connected with trade. First they sold cigarettes. The next stage - they decided to switch to meat that was carried from Estonia. Considering that there was a year in the yard, store shelves were mostly empty, the demand for products beat all records. After the collapse of the Union and the transformation of Estonia into an independent state, the business ended.

Even then, Arkady Teplitsky understood that something new was needed. But what? Once, the businessman recalls, he and several old one-year-old friends gathered for a kind of meeting of graduates. One of the comrades said that he saw in Moscow trading fairs that seemed extremely interesting to him from the point of view of the idea itself. Teplitsky grabbed the idea of ​​trading from markets and fairs, which just by this time experienced heyday in Russia, enjoying very popularity among the population.

He realized that it was necessary to translate her into a civilized format. The idea of ​​the construction and organization of special buildings was born, in which it would be possible to combine retail space with entertaining, by analogy with the malls widely developed in the West. For the Russian spontaneous trade market, this idea was fresh, but at that time serious study and, most importantly, financing at that time.

To organize it, Arkady agreed on partnership with businessman Igor Leitis. The party was so successful that partners are still conducting several large joint projects. They did not stop at one fair. After some time, several more markets in other areas of the city were opened according to her likeness. Talking about the start of the business, Arkady Teplitsky recalls: we grew up on classic gangster films, and the first retail space and fairs were drawn on the knee.

Nevertheless, having created and worked out the launch scheme of fairs, the businessmen decided that it was time to move on to “civilized” trade. They decided to build shopping complexes of a new format, by analogy with the Western. The stores remaining from Soviet times for these purposes did not fit or demanded serious restructuring. In the year, the idea of ​​creating Adamant appeared.

The first holding store opened on the 8th Sovetskaya, 9. Two years later, in the year, the partners opened the first shopping and entertainment center-Balkansky near the Metro Kupchino. The company "Adamant", despite the crises and difficulties that shook the world and the Russian economy with it, not only remained afloat, but also was able to go to the leaders of the market of trade real estate.

Today it is one of the largest multidisciplinary holdings of Russia. In fact, it was “Adamant” that became the founder of the industry of modern shopping and entertainment complexes not only in the region, but throughout the country. Currently, Adamant is a 22 shopping and entertainment complex of 1.2 million. For example, the holding belongs to 13 enterprises for industrial glass processing of RSK JSC and more than fifty organizations in other areas of business.

Currently, Adamant controls about 1.6 million. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic period, all the shopping center of the Adamant holding was able to continue work and even retained key tenants. The leadership of the holding considered it immoral from them during this period of time. At the same time, no one canceled payments for land lease, utilities, electricity and security for the shopping center.

About one and a half million dollars a month went to the maintenance of closed shopping complexes. Funds were made from their own savings by co -owners. It all ended well. It was even possible to do without attracting credit funds.

After removing coronavirus restrictions on the Adamanta shopping and entertainment complexes, they quickly returned to the dopandemic indicators. Business projects that were planned before they continue to develop.So, in the year its own logistics complex in an aspen grove was commissioned. Its total area exceeds 45 thousand restaurants in parallels The curious fact of the biography of Arkady Teplitsky: the development of parallel types of business.

One of the directions - restaurants - is closely related to the activities of the main company Adamant. Currently, under the control of a businessman are 4 restaurants. Three of them work in St. Petersburg, another in Nizhny Novgorod. I do not consider myself a restaurateur, because I never understood how to manage this business. But I always knew that it was tasty and what was not.

Arkady Teplitsky to the question of how he calculates the profitability of the restaurant business, the entrepreneur replies that the most important thing here is not calculations as such, but getting into the target audience. The restaurant business itself is not algorithmic. If you guessed the needs of the audience, success is guaranteed to you. If not, then the investments will never pay off.

If after launch you understand that it “didn’t go”, it is better to close the project. Understand whether he will take off or not take off, "according to the businessman, it is possible after the launch of the project a week or two. However, the exact result is sometimes quite difficult to predict. Arkady Teplitsky gives a specific example from his experience: once in Nizhny Novgorod we opened a restaurant, whose turnover was 25 million rubles a month.

But I did not like how the staff worked. He brought the chef from St. Petersburg, updated the management, and established all the processes. And the revenue, on the contrary, was reduced twice as important, the businessman believes, to share business and emotional addictions: do not go for emotions, look at financial indicators. For example, in my restaurant there are a couple of dishes that I can’t stand, but these are hits of sales, so there can be no thought to remove them from the menu.

Teplitsky gives an interesting example from his practice, clearly explaining why you should not chase chic and gloss, and it is much more important to understand the addictions and mentality of its consumer: for a long time the terrace of the Park Giuseppe restaurant was fenced with blond polyethylene walls. The restaurant decided to “decorate”: they built a glass terrace and put beautiful furniture.

That's how much the battle "For Beauty" cost. Arkady Teplitsky prepares two new projects to launch at once. Both are in the IT area. They are currently under development. The planned launch time is until the end of the year. The attitude towards such projects of the businessman is special: I treat innovative startups as betting at the casino. I put it five times - one won, and this is enough to compensate for the costs of the remaining four.

Nevertheless, even given the insignificance of this area of ​​business development, Teplitsky Arkady believes that partners need to be chosen carefully and responsibly. For him, the similarity of the mentality, general ethical and moral norms, as well as human relations, remain extremely important for him. All his partners, with whom he is now developing the main business, is not just his colleagues.

First of all, they are close friends: yes, there are disputes and disagreements, because "like -minded people are not those who think the same way, these are those who think about the same thing." Nevertheless, with his first partners with whom he built the first shopping center in the year, Teplitsky continues to conduct business for so far. It is very important, he is sure, to talk with people.

The rest of the time he has been in negotiations. Social activity Arkady Teplitsky, in addition to the development of various areas of business, actively conducts social activities, being part of members of directors of various charitable foundations, creative associations and other non -profit organizations. Since the year, he is the chairman of the board of the Public Organization "Growth Rules".

In the year, he headed the Board of Trustees of the Interregional Association of Women's Business and the expert council of the International Women's Business Business Board Win-Win Women. Awards for active participation in charitable actions and activities of various organizations Arkady Teplitsky was repeatedly awarded with letters and thanks from the highest authorities and state associations: the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Council of Military Intelligence Veterans, the Council of the Federation Wave, the TV channel “Your Public Television”, the Jewish Business Club “Own among its own”, the business club “Business club“ Business Club “ Petersburg ”and many others.

He is a full member academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences. The family and personal life Arkady Teplitsky is married. He raised two children: a daughter and a son. Currently, he also pays much attention to the education of their grandchildren with him also two, with whom he spends time with great pleasure at the cottage on the banks of the Gulf of Finland.