Supermarket chain Pyaterochka is to buy 18 of the 24 Kopeika stores in St Petersburg for US$60.8m, according to the AFX news agency.

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The move would bring the company’s total number of outlets in St Petersburg to 140, with an additional 7,200 square metres of selling space in the city.

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