The entrepreneur as strategist
In 2016, the supermarket chain Korzinka had 18 retail locations. “At that time, we held back and said, 'We’ve grown too fast, let's stay away from the evil eyes,'" recalls Zafar Khashimov, the company's founder and chairman of the supervisory board. By 2019, the number of Korzinka stores across Uzbekistan reached 50. Today, that number is approaching 200. If you ask the company’s ambitious team, they have no intention of stopping there.