Ownership Structure | Retro FM is owned by Radio Maximul LLC, which is 99.1% owned by businessman Emmanuil Grinshpun, through his 100%-owned ICS Trans World LLC. Another 0.9% of Radio Maximum LLC is owned by Victoria Sobor. |
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Founding Year | 2002 |
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Founder | Emmanuil Grinshpun Emmanuil Grinshpun is an influential American businessman of Jewish origin, born in Moldova, holding dual Moldovan-Romanian citizenship. Grinshpun is the owner of Retro FM, a radio station specialising in music broadcasting in Moldova. His management of the station through Radio Maximum LLC came under scrutiny when the Council for the Promotion of Investment Projects of National Importance, a Moldovan government watchdog, investigated the company's operations. The Council alleged that Grinshpun had links to the Plahotniuc-Shor criminal organisation and was involved in the "Russian Laundromat" money-laundering scheme. On the basis of these findings, the Council has asked the Prosecutor's Office to conduct a formal investigation into Grinshpun's businesses and to examine the legitimacy of their sources of funding. Grinshpun owns several companies in Moldova and abroad, namely in several Eastern European countries. He is the president of the Jewish Congress of the Republic of Moldova and in 2016 was described in the media as politically influential. |
CEO | Vadim Iuvjaninov Vadim Iuvjaninov is the administrator of Radio Maximum LLC and Retro FM . He is also responsible for the station's editorial policy. Further information about him is not publicly available. |
Editor-In-Chief | Vadim Iuvjaninov See above |
Contact | str. Frumuşica, nr. 1 MD-2002 mun. Chişinău Moldova, Republic of FMradio@retrofm.md 022 535-797; 022 538-800 |
Revenue | MDL 2.4 million / USD 132,160 (2023) |
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Operating Profit | MDL -365 thousand / USD -20,100 (2023) |
Advertising (in % of total funding) | 96,7 % |
Market Share | Missing Data |