With the development of market relations in the commodity markets in the fight for better positions between entities frequently observed behavior, named in the Act on Protection of Competition as a concerted action. At the same Act defines a ban on concerted actions of economic entities-competitors, but does not give answers to a number of important issues related to research meth-odology as a concerted action, and their differences from the parallel conduct of tacit collusion. This article is devoted to solving a number of methodological issues that arise in practical work in the investigation and proof of the agreed actions.

The paper analyzes the regulations and practice in sphere of suppression of unfair competition with the use of trademarks registered in the USSR. The authors note that issues of functioning of the «Soviet of trade marks» in need of legal assess-ment and elaboration of mechanisms for regulation, without excluding the development of new marketing technologies, built into the mechanisms of fair competitive struggle.

Technological backlog of the Russian economy from economically developed countries provokes decrease in the key indicators which show level of Russia's economic development, and interferes with strengthening of competitive positions of our country in a system of the international division of labor. The characteristic of innovative activity of the Russian Economy is given in current paper, the main issues of economic modernization as a base of innovative breakthrough are mentioned. Besides, the paper includes an author's attention to a question of the state participation in invest-ment of innovations.

This paper presents the research of organizational and management tools in use of managers of business structures in the competitive environment.

The authors examined the genesis of the formation of clustering tools in various scientific and practical fields and its direct and indirect impact on the regional, corporate and sectoral socio-economic systems.

Article is devoted to analysis of investment appeal factors which consists of three components: innovations, competitiveness, investment advantages. The innovative Internet-projects assess-ment using the specified factors optimizes selection and minimizes investment risks.

The article actualized necessity for providing competitiveness of Russian chemical industry as a factor of sustainable development of enterprises in modern conditions. The article investigates the structure of the potential for sustainable development of enterprises, argues the need for a har-monious development of the three components of sustainable development potential: social, eco-nomic and ecological.

The paper analyzes the strategies of entrepreneurial behavior, exhibited by networks of food retail. Strategies considered by the authors as a set of long-term decisions that determine the basic parameters of business: store format, pricing, competition area, the integration of action, etc. This approach allows the authors o classify the strategies, by the criteria of separate areas of strategic decision-making.

The article is devoted to the application of multivariate classification methods to solve practical problems of the positioning of product categories. In particular, in the categories of «Tea» shows how to break the category into position, formed on the basis of shopping habits and preferences. To perform this task used discriminant analysis, which aims to partition a set of objects into homo-geneous groups. The study managed to make an assortment of categories «Tea» optimal.

The liberalization of natural monopolies ground handling markets began with the adoption of the 1996 EU Directive 96/97 in EU. Development competition of ground handling in Russia began in 2009 after adopted rules of access to services of natural monopolies in airports. This work is devoted to a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the regulatory impact on the defect structure of these markets.

In article the analysis of branch of agriculture (poultry farming branch) the Republics of Mordovia during 2005–2010 is carried out. The market of production of poultry farming is one of the larg- est foodstuff among the markets. The analysis is carried out as the agricultural enterprises of so personal part-time farms, efficiency of activity of the enterprises of branch is estimated, the main factors, defining production efficiency of production of poultry farming are revealed.

The article examines management of business process in the sphere of education as a tool for creating competitive, professionally trained the participants of labor market. This article describes the order of business process scheme-making, which provides competitive educational services, relying on the DFD-scheme. Material presented in the article is the basis for a network of a busi- ness process, which provides quality control of the educational product, and its competitiveness.

In the published article there was analyzed necessity of population savings model modernization and proved financial supermarkets development on Russian market as the perspective financial institute of population investments attraction to the Russian economy.

This article discusses the theoretical and methodical provisions for assessing the effectiveness of customer service system in paying insurance compensations, presented indicators to assess the effectiveness of the system of settlement of losses in the insurance company. On the basis of expert estimates defined evaluation scale specified indicators. In a formalized the integrated indi- cator of system performance. On the basis of the developed technique the assessment of system effectiveness of settlement of losses of one of the domestic insurance companies functioning in the regional market of insurance services of the Tyumen region is carried out.

World trade of goods and services demonstrates fast development for several years. Companies from different countries use different tools of trade finance which become competitors for bank products. Different aspects of competition at Russian and international factoring operations mar- kets are examined in this article.

We consider the definition of «sustainable development», «financial environment», «competitive environment» in relation to the insurance market. Argued the need to maintain a competitive finan- cial environment of the insurance market to ensure its sustainable development.

This article presents evaluation of goals of regional strategic development in a competitive environ- ment (on example of Vladimir region).