Sport Life group to open 11 Eurasia sushi bars in Kyiv in 2011
Kyiv, December 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Sport Life group of companies, which manages the Sport Life fitness club chain as well as the chain of Eurasia restaurants and sushi bars in Russia and Ukraine, plans to open 11 more restaurants in Kyiv next year, which will extend its chain to 16 outlets, Sport Life founder Dmytro Yekimov said.
"As of today we've opened five restaurants, and five more are in the pipeline. As of the end of next year we plan to bring their number to 16 restaurants, which he will make us the No. 1 chain of Japanese restaurants in Kyiv," he said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday.
According to him, the group plans to expand the Eurasia sushi bar chain in Kyiv to 25 outlets by the Euro 2012.
"Each restaurant costs us about $500,000," he said.
According to him, the group opens Eurasia outlets in leased premises.
Sport Life was founded in 2001 by the Kyiv-Capital venture fund in Maryland (the United States) to invest in sports infrastructure n Easter Europe.
Sport Life manages a chain of fitness clubs, healthy food restaurants and sushi bars, sports clothes and equipment stores, and tanning salons. The group also imports the Hammer Strength, Precor, TechnoGym, BodyCraft and StrongMan sports equipment brands to the CIS countries.
The first Sport Life fitness club opened in Kyiv in March 2007. The chain now consists of five clubs, in Ukraine – four in Kyiv and one in Kryvy Rih.