The company was set up in March 2013 as a joint-venture of two Nordic companies Cramo and Ramirent to represent their interests in Russia. Fortrent is the leading company in the construction machinery and equipment rental market in Russia with rental outlets and offices in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don and Nizhny Novgorod. The head office of Fortrent Russia is located in St. Petersburg. Fortrent with its 17 outlets and with 300 employees provides machinery, equipment and modular space through different rental solutions and services to construction companies, manufacturing industry, public sector and private customers and thus reduces the capital invested by its customers. FORTRENT offers its customers flexible and efficient rental solutions and provides a multi-purpose fleet of machinery and equipment.

The Mertens family company, established in 1841, was among the leading fur trading concerns in St. Petersburg. In the 1870s, the company acquired a four-storey neo-renaissance building on Nevsky Prospekt, opposite Bolshaya Konushennaya Ulitsa. Fyodor Fyodorovich Mertens, son of the company’s founder, decided to reconstruct the building to provide more retail space, and commissioned the Polish-born architect Marian Lalewicz.

The building continued to be used for retail of clothing after the October Revolution, first as the Nevsky Prospekt Fashion House and then, after the Second World War, as the USSR’s first House of Clothing Models – an institution charged with developing and promoting new fashions for the people. Since restoration work in 2008, the building has been the local flagship store for Spanish brand Zara, although it still bares the name “Dom Mertensa”, and the Mertens family logo – a polar bear holding a sphere – can be seen on a fountain in the building’s courtyard.

Nikoliers is Russian leading full-cycle consulting company in the segment of commercial and residential real estate. The company began its activities in Russia in 1994 as a representative of the international brand Colliers

SATO Rus is part of SATO Group, one of Finland’s leading rental housing         providers. SATO’s aim is to offer comprehensive alternatives in rental
housing and an excellent customer experience. SATO holds roughly 25 700
rental homes, 534 of them are located in St.Petersburg.

YIT Saint Petersburg, JSC is a regional office of YIT, a Finnish construction concern. The company, which has been in business since 1988, has completed over 190 buildings for various purposes, from gas station chains to wastewater treatment facilities, large plants and factories. YIT Saint Petersburg, JSC today is one of the leading companies on the market of housing construction. Working on the housing market of Saint Petersburg since the early 2000s as a developer, YIT has put into operation some 1.1 million square meters of residential housing (more than 30 residential complexes). The company builds comfort, business and premium class residential buildings in different city districts. At all its construction sites the company acts as customer, general investor and builder, as well as general contractor of housing and commercial real estate. Greenstate industrial park is a private industrial park of YIT Company. As of today, the industrial park has all the general infrastructure, and more than half of the territory has been occupied by industrial facilities of 18residents.
A new project started in Kaluga Region in 2007. The investment contract with the Kaluga Region Government as well as the agreements with local electricity, gas and water suppliers were signed in 2008. The Kaluga Industrial Park is located two hours away from Moscow along a modern M-3 highway.
The pilot plant construction project for the Finnish company Rani Plast was successfully carried out in Kaluga in 2010–2012. The customer invested around 20 mln euros; it was also partly financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The total floor area amounted to 5,400 m2, the height of the main building reached 27 m. The plant production was launched in spring 2012. The plant was opened in September 2012.
In February 2014, the agreement on collaboration with the Kaluga Region Development Сorporation was negotiated. The Agency for Regional Development of Kaluga Region (GAU ARRKO) is the new partner for engaging residents to I-Park in 2019.
A total of some 85 ha are now available for arranging new enterprises on the territory of the Kaluga I-Park (with the sanitary protection zone of up to 500 m).