MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th November, 2018) Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has suspended its plans to open offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, while the opening of an office in Toronto has been postponed until 2019, Kaspersky Lab Chief business Officer Alexander Moiseev told Sputnik in an interview.
The company planned to open three new offices in the North American region in 2018 - in Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto.
"We will open an office in Toronto next year. The need to open offices in Chicago and Los Angeles has disappeared due to the general difficulties in work in the region. We are facing now stagnant corporate sales. At the same time, B2C [business to consumer] sales are growing in the online segment, but it is centralized, there is no need for new offices to develop it. So for now, we are temporarily suspending plans to open new offices," Moiseev said.
