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Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:29 [22. 04. 08]
The largest Russian mobile phone operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is the first and only Russian company that was named as one of the world’s Top 100 Most Powerful Brands, the third annual BrandZ™ Ranking announced by leading global market research and consulting firm Millward Brown.
 MTS was ranked 89th in the BrandZ Top 100 list with a brand value of $8.1 billion. MTS reported revenues of $8.2 billion in 2007, up 29% from 2006. The company had 85 million subscribers in the end of March 2008. MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus with a total population of more than 230 million.
Google topped the BrandZ Ranking of the world’s Top 100 Most Powerful Brands for the second consecutive year with a value of $86.1 billion followed by GE at $71.4 billion and Microsoft at $70.8 billion.
Millward Brown also named Russia’s 2nd largest mobile phone operator Beeline among “brands to watch in future brand rankings”.
Beeline and MTS were named the best Russian brands in Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux’s third annual ranking of 40 most valuable Russian brands in October 2007.
Tags: , best russian brand, brand rankings, BrandZ Ranking Russia, Mobile TeleSystems, MTS
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