One of the world's best recognised issues , British weekly "Metal Bulletin", published its annual rating of non-ferrous metals producers. "Metal Bulletin" rating is based on the companies' sales during last year. According to their research, two Russian companies comprised top five.- One of them was "Norilsk Nickel". Just as last year, it is officially world's third largest non-ferrous metals producer. As the prices for palladium and nickel increased, so did the profits of " Norilsk Nickel" by 2 billion UDS.