MOSCOW, December 12. /TASS/. Retail chain of beauty stores Gold Apple may open 4-5 stores in 2024 in Russia, as well as in the UAE and Qatar, director, head of retail space lease department at CORE.XP Nadezhda Tsvetkova told TASS.

"It has around 4-5 openings planned for next year, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Qatar, Dubai. Two stores are planned abroad," she said.

Gold Apple has 33 stores in Russia, four stores in Kazakhstan and one store in Belarus. The chain is the second-biggest in terms of sales in its segment in Russia.