Concord Management and Consulting

{{Short description|Russian company}}

{{Infobox company

|name = Concord Management and Consulting

|type = Private

|hq_location_city = St. Petersburg

|hq_location_country = Russia

|key_people = {{Unbulleted list

|Yevgeny Prigozhin (founder)

| Dmitry Utkin (CEO)

}}

|native_name = Конкорд Менеджмент и Консалтинг

|native_name_lang = ru

|subsid = {{Unbulleted list

|Concord Catering

|LLC Agat

|LLC Megaline

}}

|founder = Yevgeny Prigozhin

|owners = {{Unbulleted list

|Violetta Prigozhina (2011–present)

|Yevgeny Prigozhin (1995–2009)

}}

|founded = {{Start date and age|1995}} in St. Petersburg, Russia

}}

Concord Management and Consulting ({{langx|ru|Конкорд Менеджмент и Консалтинг}}) is a member of the Concord company group, which was half owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin.{{cite web|title=Exclusive: Putin's 'chef,' the man behind the troll factory|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/russian-oligarch-putin-chef-troll-factory/index.html|website=CNN|date=17 October 2017|access-date=16 February 2018|last1=Lister|first1=Tim|last2=Sciutto|first2=Jim|last3=Ilyushina|first3=Mary}}{{cite web|title=Media: Wagner Group commander becomes CEO of Putin's friend's catering business|url=https://uawire.org/wagner-group-commander-becomes-ceo-of-putin-s-friend-s-catering-business|website=UAWIRE|date=16 November 2017|access-date=16 February 2018}} Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, it owns and operates several restaurants and is also the parent company of Concord Catering.

The company was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin in 1995.{{cite web|title=Dom Trezini rekonstruirujut po vos'momu krugu|script-title=ru:Дом Трезини реконструируют по восьмому кругу|trans-title=House Trezzini reconstructed on the eighth circle|url=http://www.fontanka.ru/2010/09/28/111/|website=Fontanka.ru |date=28 September 2010|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian}} He was the listed owner until 2009. His mother, Violetta Prigozhina, has been the listed owner since 2011.{{cite web|title=Imperija Prigozhina vzjala voennye gorodki|script-title=ru:Империя Пригожина взяла военные городки|trans-title=The Prigogine Empire took military towns|url=http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/01/11/120/|website=Fontaka.ru|date=12 January 2016|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian}}

"North Versailles" ({{langx|ru|Северный Версаль}}) is a luxury housing development in the Lahti-Primorsky district of St. Petersburg built and managed by Concord Management and Consulting.{{cite web|title=Prodazha osobnjakov i apartamentov v jelitnom komplekse "Severnyj Versal"|script-title=ru:Продажа особняков и апартаментов в элитном комплексе "Северный Версаль"|trans-title=Sale of detached houses and apartments in the elite complex "North Versailles"|url=http://versailles-palace.ru/|website=versailles-palace.ru|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218075117/http://versailles-palace.ru/|archive-date=18 February 2018|url-status=dead}} The development closed a section of Novaya Street to the public by erecting gates with armed guards. This was controversial because city records showed the street as still a public right of way.{{cite web|title=Kak ulica Peterburga stala chastnoj|script-title=ru:Как улица Петербурга стала частной|trans-title=As the street of St. Petersburg became private|url=http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/10/25/121/|website=Fontanka.ru|date=25 October 2016|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian}}

Concord Management and Consulting owns 50% of LLC Megaline ({{langx|ru|Мегалайн}}).{{cite web|title=Peterburgskaja sbytovaja kompanija bankrotit "GU ZhKH"|script-title=ru:Петербургская сбытовая компания банкротит «ГУ ЖКХ»|trans-title=Petersburg sales company bankrupt "Housing and Utilities"|url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2016/12/27/109|website=Fontanka.ru|date=27 December 2016|access-date=18 February 2018|language=Russian}} Megaline received most of the capital construction contracts for the Russian military in 2016 in what appears to have been a rigged bidding process.{{cite web|title=Prigozhin podobral ostatki oboronnogo goszakaza|script-title=ru:Пригожин подобрал остатки оборонного госзаказа|trans-title=Prigozhin picked up the remnants of the defense order|url=http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/08/17/153/|website=Fontanka.ru|date=22 August 2016|access-date=18 February 2018|language=Russian}}{{cite web|title=Fond Naval'nogo poprosil FSB proverit' Evgenija Prigozhina|script-title=ru:Фонд Навального попросил ФСБ проверить Евгения Пригожина|trans-title=Fund Navalny asked the FSB to check Eugene Prigozhin|url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2016/10/05/099|website=Fantanka.ru|date=10 October 2016|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian}} Concord Management and Consulting's lawyers provided a package of amendments to the Ministry of Defense to change the laws in a way that would allow Megaline to bid for the contracts since it otherwise wasn't qualified. The amendments were submitted to the Duma by the government on 11 February 2014, and adopted on 16 April 2014.{{cite web|title="Konkord" nasleduet "Oboronservisu"|script-title=ru:«Конкорд» наследует «Оборонсервису»|trans-title=Concord inherits Oboronservice|url=http://www.fontanka.ru/2014/06/09/162/|website=Fantanka.ru|date=10 June 2014|access-date=19 February 2018|language=Russian}}

On 20 June 2017, the United States Treasury Department added Concord Management and Consulting to the list of companies sanctioned for the Russo-Ukrainian war.{{Citation|title=CHANGES TO THE Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List SINCE JANUARY 1, 2017|author=Office of Foreign Assets Control|url=https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnnew17.pdf|access-date=18 February 2018|year=2018|author-link=Office of Foreign Assets Control}}

Dmitry Utkin, also under sanctions, became the CEO of Concord Management and Consulting on 14 November 2017.{{cite web|title=Prigozhin pokazal milliarderskij trolling|script-title=ru:Пригожин показал миллиардерский троллинг|trans-title=Prigozhin showed billionaires trolling|url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2017/11/15/025/|website=Fontanka.ru|date=15 November 2017|access-date=18 February 2018|language=Russian}} This is not the same Dmitry Utkin who was the co-founder of Wagner Group, a private military contractor. He replaced Anastasia Sautina.