Pharmacy chain leaders. MarketMedia studied which pharmacy chains in Russia were included in the top ten largest in terms of the number of outlets

The list of 100 largest enterprises in Russia includes several pharmacy chains. The largest in terms of profit included in the Top 7 are ASNA, Rigla, Pharmacy Chain 36.6, Implozia, Planeta Zdorovya, Erkopharm Group of Companies, Neo-Pharm.

The last few years in the context of the crisis have shown the dynamics of the fall in demand for drugs. The research of the pharmaceutical retail market conducted by the analytical company KMPG in 2016 marked the beginning of a turning point - for the first time in several years, there was a positive increase in the revenue of pharmacy chains.

Analysis of the table shows that pharmacy chains Russia in the TOP-10 strengthened its position in the market. Their combined share increased to 45%. The ratio of revenue in 2016 to 2015 increased by 26.6%. These figures indicate the ongoing consolidation of the market.

RNC Pharma, a well-known analytical analyst, has presented a rating of Russian pharmacy chains based on the results of the 1st quarter of 2017.

Table 2. Top-7 pharmacy chains by share in the retail market

Pharmacy chain

Headquarters location

The number of points as of 01.04. 2017 Nov.

Market share at the end of the 1st quarter of 2017

Market as a whole, without LLO

Pharmacy chain 36.6

Implosion

Planet Health

Erkafarm Group of Companies

If we compare the results of 2016 and the 1st quarter of 2017, we can note some significant changes in the TOP-7. Rigla outstripped the Pharmacy Chain 36.6, Raduga flew out of the coveted seven - its place was taken by Neo-Pharm.

According to the researchers, the pharmacy market is close to saturation - today it is more and more difficult to find suitable premises in places with sufficient traffic. Certain opportunities are promised by global investment programs, such as the renovation project in Moscow. However, it is local in nature. The growing interest in the pharmaceutical market from the non-pharmaceutical retail sector promises a serious increase in competition for the foreseeable future.

Table 3. Main sources of increased competition in the market during 2016

Aggressive pricing policy of players

The existing high concentration of pharmacy chains in the regions of the company's presence

Future strengthening of the geographic presence of local players

Development by other players of new formats (pharmacies, supermarkets, discounters)

The emergence of new players, mainly regional in the places of the company's presence

The emergence of new players, mainly federal in the places of the company's presence

Business diversification by other players (for example, launching own production or distribution)

That is why leading players are rushing to grab the remaining market space - in 2017, according to a KMPG survey, 90% of large retail chains plan to expand their presence by opening new points of sale. The geographical location of pharmacy points is carried out on the basis of preliminary marketing research.

Some players speak out about the need to limit the market. More than 58% of heads of pharmacy chains are in favor of legislative limitation of the number of pharmacies in the country, following the example of Western European countries: France, Spain and Germany.

There can be no oversupply of pharmacies in Russia - Nadezhda Sharavskaya, deputy head of the social sphere and trade control department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), expresses her disagreement with the heads of pharmacy chains. This is a commercial market, pharmacies are opening, so they are profitable and they have a demand, she argues. Many pharmacies operate in the capitals of the constituent entities, the restriction will lead to higher prices and hinder competition, from its point of view.

Consider the large pharmacy chains in Russia, which are leaders in the pharmaceutical market.

1. ASNA

ASNA is an association of independent pharmacies, which includes more than 5,000 pharmacies in many cities of Russia. ASNA company is new format among pharmacy chains, since the members of the association are independent pharmacies and pharmacy chains, united by a common goal - to make medicines, medical equipment and related products more accessible to buyers. Today the territory of the Association extends far beyond the capital, occupying the territory from the south to Kamchatka. ASNA is present in more than 100 cities and more than 60 constituent entities of the Federation. Regional offices are open in Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Kazan. The company has 150 marketing contracts with manufacturers.

Legal address: 125368, Moscow, st. Mitinskaya, house 33, building 1

2. Wrigla

Founded in 2001, the national pharmacy chain is the second largest in Russia in terms of sales. As of December 2016, the chain has 1,769 retail outlets in 47 regions of Russia. Rigla represents the retail business segment of the Protek Group of Companies, the largest pharmaceutical holding in Russia. The assortment of the pharmacy chain includes 18 thousand assortment positions, of which about 60% are parapharmaceutical products. Pharmacy chain "Rigla" includes 1768 pharmacies at the end of 12 months of 2016 Pharmacies under the brand "Bud Zdorov!" and Zhivika operate in the discounter format. At the end of 2016, there were 1,214 discounter pharmacies in the chain.

Legal address: 115201, Moscow, st. Chermyanskaya, 2

Information about the owners: parent company"Protek"

Capitalization: RUB 23 billion

3. Pharmacy chain 36.6

PJSC Pharmacy Chain 36.6, founded in 1991, is a leading Russian company sectors retail goods for health and beauty. In January 2016, the largest shareholders of the Group and the controlling shareholders of A5 Pharmacy Retail Limited (the parent company of the A5 pharmacy chain) reached preliminary agreements on the merger of the pharmacy chains. The merger was completed in December 2016 as part of an additional issue of shares in PJSC Pharmacy Chain 36.6, which remained the parent company of the merged group.

Legal address: 121096, Moscow, st. Vasilisa Kozhina, 1

Information about the owners: Major shareholders as of 2016:

  • Palesora Ltd. (Cyprus, owners - Vladimir Kintsurashvili and Ivan Saganelidze) - 60.58%;
  • Walgreens Boots Alliance - 15%.

Chairman of the Board of Directors - Ivan Saganelidze

General Director - Vladimir Kintsurashvili

Capitalization- 16.6 billion rubles.

Gross profit in 2016 10766 mln RUB

Promotion rate - 6.99 rubles.

4. Implosion

Implosion LLC was registered in 1991. Since 1993, trade in medicines has become the main activity. In addition to our own pharmacies, the sale of goods takes place through pharmacies of other legal entities working under a partnership agreement. Sales of products through the pharmacy network are carried out in the following regions of Russia: Samara, Saratov, Penza, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk regions, Moscow, Bashkiria, Tatarstan. On the this moment in Tatarstan and Bashkiria Implosion is represented only by partners, in other regions - both by its own pharmacies and by the pharmacies of partner companies.

In 2003, the company was divided in order to minimize economic and legal risks into several companies: LLC “Pharmperspektivu”, LLC “I-Trans”, “I-cube”, LLC “Implosion-finance” and others.

Legal address: 432072, ULYANOVSK, PR. GENERAL TYULENEV, D. 7

Information about the owners: Implosion has an opaque ownership structure. V the largest operator holding - LLC "Pharmperspektiva" ("FP") - Grant Bezruchenko controlled 27.19%. 24% of the company belonged to his brother Valery Bezruchenko. The brothers' partners in FP were Dmitry Podgornov (27.19%) and Oleg Teplyakov (21.6%). After the death in 2015 of the founder of the company, Grant Bezruchenko, his share was bought out by the beneficiaries.

Capitalization: RUB 15 billion

5. Planet of health

LLC "Planet of Health" is one of the most actively growing players in the Russian pharmaceutical retailer. Perm Territory, Kirov Region and Udmurtia... Moreover, in Perm "Planet of Health" is an absolute monopolist. The network also operates in Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and other large regions.

Legal address: 614068, KRAY PERMSKY, CITY PERM, STREET LENIN, 83/34

Information about the owners: Founder - natural person Kislov Alexey Evgenievich

6.GK Erkafarm (Doctor Stoletov & Ozerki)

The group of companies "ERKAFARM" was founded in 1994. Today the group includes more than 360 pharmacies in 12 regions of the Russian Federation, operating in various formats from discounters to pharmacies. ERKAFARM includes several pharmacy chains: Doctor Stoletov, Ozerki, Horoshaya Apteka, Narodnaya Apteka and Apteka No. 1. The total number of employees of the ERKAFARM Group is more than 3500 people.

Legal address: 107005, Moscow, Bakuninskaya Street, 14

Information about the owners: Individual, Saganelidze Ivan Givievich, Prestige Market LLC, Proftekhgroup LLC, Russian Trust Alliance Vashi Savings LLC, Sana-MT LLC, Enterprise Service LLC

7. Neo-farm

The history of NEOPHARM Group of Companies began as a small family business - from several pharmacy kiosks in the Krasnogorsk District of the Moscow Region. Today, NEOPHARM Group of Companies comprises almost 300 pharmacies under two brands - NEOPHARM and STOLICHKI, it is more than 3000 employees and over 25 million customers a year.

Legal address: 123423, Moscow, Otkrytoe highway, 2, bldg. 12

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MarketMedia studied which pharmacy chains in Russia were included in the top ten largest in terms of the number of retail outlets.

The top ten classic pharmacy chains in terms of the number of outlets in Russia in the first quarter of 2018 totaled more than 11 thousand pharmacies. In total, there are more than two thousand chains operating in the country, which account for 81.2% of the Russian retail drug market in 2017 in monetary terms, the analytical company RNC Pharma calculated.

In the coming years, the largest players will develop through the purchase of small regional chains, since the era of organic growth is long over, top managers of pharmacy chains said at industry events. In the coming years, the number of networks will decrease significantly.

Consolidation
One of the trends in pharmacy retail is the process of market consolidation, which has not stopped for several years. Moreover, over the past two years it has become very active. Last year, about 50 transactions were made in Russia. “What is interesting here is not even how many transactions are going on, but the fact that quite large and quite successful companies were put up for sale, and it was amazing. For example, the Samson-Pharma or Kazanskie Apteki chains, says Nikolay Bespalov, Development Director of the analytical company RNC Pharma, stressing that earlier the largest transactions took place in relation to companies in difficult financial situations. For example, "Rainbow" changed its owner due to the poor financial condition of the mother "Rosta".

Currently, many assets are sold rather because their owners do not see the prospects for market development: high competition, declining business profitability, falling purchasing power. There is now a low demand for drugs and related products.

Federal chains, which have bought many regional players over the past few years, say that it is no longer possible to develop organically and this year they will continue to buy small chains or single pharmacies for the sake of location.

Alliances
If we take the five leaders, then there are four Moscow networks and one Permian. Not included in the top 10 regional networks pharmacies united in alliances and unions, as well as online pharmacies. But if we analyze alliances, then the largest is the Moscow Association of Independent Pharmacies (ASNA), which unites more than 8 thousand retail outlets in Russia up to Kamchatka. By the end of this year, the association intends to grow to 14 thousand pharmacies.

In second place in terms of the number of united local players is the Samara chain Implosion (more than 3.4 thousand outlets), which has more than 60% of pharmacies either partner (connected to the Implosion software for purchases) or franchise.

The third place is taken by the Novosibirsk network "Melodiya Zdorovya" (1.8 thousand), which also has more than 50% of its outlets in partnerships.

The peak of unions of local players into unions or alliances was in 2017. This allows chains to have lower purchase prices and to consolidate producer orders for marketing services (producers pay chains to promote their products).

Despite the fact that work on a high-profile bill allowing the sale of OTC drugs in grocery retail has been discontinued (and this was a big threat to the pharmaceutical market, representatives of the chains said that if this law was adopted, they would be forced to close up to half of their outlets due to close proximity with grocery stores), the situation in pharmacy retail is extremely difficult. “Most likely, in the coming years, small players will find themselves in extremely unfavorable conditions; it will be difficult for local companies to compete for marketing budgets with market leaders. The industry will see a series of bankruptcies of small and medium-sized companies, and the M&A market will be oversupplied. So now you can get out of business on not bad conditions yet, ”Nikolai Bespalov believes.

1. Wrigla
The first place in the Top-10 of the largest classical pharmaceutical chains is occupied by Rigla, which is part of the Protek Group of Companies. The network includes more than 2.1 thousand pharmacies in 50 regions of Russia. Apart from the main brand Rigla, this company operates under 12 other brand names, including Zhivika, Apteki 03, Yugorskiy Lekar and others. Its share in the retail drug market is 5.6% in rubles. Rigla, which has bought up many regional assets in recent years, including Kolomna DOMpharma, Ekaterinburg Apteka City, Pskov Apteki 003, Kostroma Panacea, has now announced a new business strategy aimed primarily at organic network growth and revenue growth outstripping the growth rates of the pharmaceutical market, reported general manager pharmacy chain "Rigla" Alexander Filippov.

2. Erkafarm
As of April 1, 2018, she managed more than 1.2 thousand pharmacies in 8 federal districts of Russia under various brands, including Doctor Stoletov, Ozerki, Khoroshaya Apteka, Narodnaya Apteka, Apteka No. 1 , "Raduga", "First Aid", "Ladushka" and others. Pharmacies operate in various formats - from discounters to pharmacies. This year the company plans to develop a new drogerie format under the Ozerki brand in the low price segment. The first stores will be opened in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, and then in Moscow, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar. The company's share in the retail drug market was 4.6%.

3. Pharmacy chain 36.6
Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Group of Companies was founded in 1991. The company operates chains under the names 36.6, Gorzdrav and A.v.e., the total number of which has exceeded 1,470 points. The company's share in the retail drug market was 4.4%.

4. Planet of health
In fourth place in the ranking of the largest pharmacies in terms of the number of outlets is the Perm Planet of Health, which numbers more than 1.4 thousand pharmacies, including under the brand “Country of Childhood”, in 50 cities of Russia. In the Perm Territory, the chain is the leader and occupies more than 60% of the retail market, according to RNC Pharma. The company's share in the retail drug market was 3.2%.

5. Neo-Pharm
The Moscow group of companies "Neo-Pharm" is developing the networks "Neopharm" and "Stolichki", operating in different price segments. Compared to the four previous pharmaceutical companies, it has much fewer pharmacy outlets - only 469. However, the company develops larger formats, in contrast to its competitors - hypermarkets and supermarkets. Its share on the Russian pharmaceutical market is estimated at 3.1%.

6. Farmland
The sixth place in the rating is occupied by the Bashkir "Farmland", which has been operating since 1997. It has over a thousand pharmacies in Russia different formats(pharmacy centers, social pharmacies, health and beauty centers), and also has optical salons, orthopedic salons and a Hearing Center. The company's share in the Russian pharmaceutical market was 2.1%.

7. April
The Krasnodar network of pharmacies "April" had 891 pharmacies at the end of the first quarter of this year. Its share reached 1.9%. As well as the largest federal networks, Krasnodar pharmacy retail is also developing through the purchase of local networks. So, in the spring of this year, "April" announced the purchase of the largest Tatar network "Kazan pharmacies" (112 outlets). In 2017, "April" looked closely at the Izhevsk chain "Farmakon & Klyukva" (117 outlets), but in the middle of the year it was taken over by Pharmaimpex, Vademecum magazine previously reported.

8. Pharmacy Timer
According to the results of the first quarter, the Perm network "Apteka-Timer" numbered 673 outlets with a 1.8% share in the pharmaceutical market.

9. Pharmaimpex
The Izhevsk Pharmaimpex network was established in 1994, initially the company was engaged in wholesale supplies, cooperating mainly with hospitals. The first pharmacy was opened in Udmurtia in 1998. As of the end of the first quarter of 2018, the chain consisted of 729 pharmacies, and its share in Russia in the retail drug market was 1.6%.

10. Vita
Samara pharmaceutical company "Vita" operates almost a thousand pharmacies. The company develops two brands: Vita Express and My Pharmacy low prices". The consolidated share of the pharmaceuticals market reached 1.4%.

As one of the central topics for the Russian pharmaceutical retail, at the beginning of this year, the issue of permitting the sale of drugs in non-pharmaceutical retail was again raised. It would seem that the professional community had given the initiative a very unambiguous assessment even earlier, and we can put an end to it. However, the regulators decided otherwise. In December 2017, a draft federal law was submitted for public discussion.

Probably, no one needs to explain that the Federal Law is a "serious thing", and since the draft document has appeared, the likelihood of its adoption should be considered as very high. So, the statement of several large representatives of the Russian pharmaceutical retailer about the risk of closing a significant share of their pharmacies seriously agitated both the professional community and the general public. If this is the case for the leaders, then what will happen to the companies of the second and third tier?

However, in the "big" retail, passions are also boiling serious, echoes of these events were expressed in the sale of a blocking stake in the Magnit network by the founder of the company, Sergei Galitsky, to VTB Bank.

We will not quote "conspiracy theories" about the incipient process of nationalization of the global retail market, these versions hardly have a right to exist, but still, the growing role of the banking sector in retail management, incl. pharmaceutical, difficult to ignore. In particular, this year, noticeable changes have taken place in the management structure of Pharmacy Chain 36.6, some of them, obviously, were initiated by the structures of MKB.

Table: TOP pharmacy chains by share in the retail-commercial drug market in Russia at the end of 2017

Pharmacy chain Office Number of points Share,%
LP not LP Generally
Classic pharmacy chains
1 ASNA 1 Moscow 8 365 13,9 12,7 13,7
2 Pharmacy chain 36.6 2 Moscow 1 756 5,0 4,8 5,0
3 Rigla 3 Moscow 2 039 4,9 5,1 4,9
4 Erkafarm Group of Companies Moscow 1 240 3,7 3,5 3,6
5 Implosion 3 Samara 3 195 3,3 3,4 3,3
6 Planet Health Permian 1 403 2,8 1,7 2,6
7 Neo-Pharm Moscow 464 2,4 1,4 2,2
8 Farmland Ufa 950 1,7 1,8 1,7
9 Pharmacopoeia - Your Doctor Moscow 892 1,6 1,5 1,6
10 Pharmacy Timer Permian 657 1,6 1,3 1,5
11 Pharmaimpex Izhevsk 738 1,5 1,8 1,6
12 April 3 Krasnodar 727 1,5 2,0 1,6
13 Melody of health Novosibirsk 1 262 1,4 1,6 1,5
14 Vita Samara 887 1,3 1,7 1,4
15 Maksavit (including 36.7C) 3 N.Novgorod 389 1,3 0,5 1,1
Pharmacy associations 4
1 Propharmacy Moscow 3 928 4,1 2,9 3,9
2 IFIs St. Petersburg 2 232 3,0 3,2 3,1
3 SPRING St. Petersburg 670 1,0 1,4 1,1
4 Apteka.ru Novosibirsk 15 027 0,5 1,2 0,7
5 FarmHub Moscow 321 0,5 0,5 0,5
6 Parnassus Moscow 278 0,4 0,5 0,4
7 Alliancepharma St. Petersburg 198 0,3 0,3 0,3
8 GradisFarma 3 Moscow 240 0,3 0,4 0,3
9 Vlasta Voronezh 194 0,3 0,3 0,3
10 Nadezhda-Farm Tambov 156 0,2 0,2 0,2
1 - ASNA belongs to the group of classic pharmacy chains due to the deeper level of integration of business processes compared to associative-type chains
2 - the total number of outlets is indicated taking into account Pharmacora pharmacies, the company's turnover for the period is not taken into account
3 - expert judgment
4 - positions of pharmacy associations are calculated without taking into account the intersections of the members of the associations with each other. This rating shows the market share occupied by the union of pharmacy chains and single pharmacies

Top-7 federal pharmacy chains

Among federal pharmacy chains, the first place is occupied by the Association of Independent Pharmacies (ASNA), which has 5,637 pharmacies and occupies 9.8% of the share of regional markets where it is represented. Despite the name, the creators of the rating traditionally rank it among federal networks.

The second place, according to the expert assessment, went to the Rigla chain with 1,846 pharmacies and 1.7% of the market share. The third place is taken by the Melodiya Zdorovya pharmacy chain (a subsidiary of Katren) with 1,063 pharmacies and the same market share as Rigla (1.7%).

Federal pharmacy chains
Rating Pharmacy chain The total share of the network in the regions of presence **,%
1 ASNA 5 637 9,8 96,3
2 Rigla * 1 846 1,7 55,0
3 Melody of health 1 063 1,7 49,9
4 Implosion * 2 485 1,2 42,6
5 Pharmacy Timer 585 3,3 39,3
6 Rainbow (including First Aid) 1 030 2,4 33,9
7 Pharmaimpex * 553 2,0 26,2

* Expert judgment by RNC Pharma

** The total share of the network of pharmacies of the total volume of regional markets in which it is represented.

Top 7 multi-regional pharmacy chains

The first place among multi-regional chains is taken by "36.6", which has 1,755 pharmacies and occupies 18.1% of the market in the regions of presence. The second place is taken by pharmacies under the Zdorovya Planet brand with 1,246 pharmacies and a 3.8% market share. In third place is Erkafarm with pharmacies under the brands Doctor Stoletov and Ozerki. There are 400 pharmacies of these brands in the regions, which occupy 6.6% of the market share.

Multi-regional pharmacy chains
Rating Pharmacy chain Number of points as of 01.07.2017 Rating indicator (point)
1 Pharmacy chain 36.6 1 755 18,1 70,3
2

Pharmacies operating under the Health Planet brand

1 246 3,8 55,3
3 400 6,6 48,4
4 Maksavit (including 36.7C) 334 4,3 47,2
5 Farmland 758 12,7 46,3
6 Neo-Pharm 366 7,9 44,9
7 Vita 728 1,9 35,8

* The total share of a network of pharmacies of the total volume of regional markets in which it is represented.

Top 10 pharmacy associations

Among the pharmacy associations, the places were distributed as follows:

The first place is given to the association "ProApteka", which includes 2,340 pharmacies. The second place is occupied by the service of ordering goods from the pharmacy assortment “Pharmacy. ru ”, which has 14 341 pharmacies throughout the country and is many times ahead of other representatives of the rating in terms of this indicator. The third place is taken by the Medico-Pharmaceutical Association of Small Businesses (MFO), which has 1,608 pharmaceutical outlets.

Pharmacy associations
Rating Pharmacy chain Number of points as of 01.07.2017 The total share of the network in the regions of presence *,% Rating indicator (point)
1 Propharmacy 2 340 3,3 68,2
2

Apteka.ru

14 341 0,6 54,6
3 IFIs 1 608 4,3 51,6
4 SPRING 674 2,4 33,6
5 FarmHub 276 1,6 20,0
6

Nadezhda-Farm

130 1,2 19,9
7 Pharmaline 194 2,4 14,4
8 Parnassus 230 2,0 12,8
9 A + 76 0,3 7,3
10 Alliancepharm 117 1,9 5,7

* The total share of a network of pharmacies of the total volume of regional markets in which it is represented.

TOP-15 pharmacy chains by the size of the average check based on the results of the 1st – 2nd quarter. 2017 Nov.

A rating by the size of the average check was also presented. According to this parameter, the first place is occupied by the Omnipharm network (5,289 rubles). In second place is “Pharmacy. ru "with an average check of 1,662 rubles. The third place is occupied by "Samson-Pharma", where the average check is equal to 1,440 rubles.

Top-15 pharmacy chains by the size of the average check according to the results of the 1st – 2nd quarter. 2017 Nov.

Rating Pharmacy chain Average check size, rub. Number of receipts per 1 pharmacy, thousand unitsThe dynamics of the number of checks relative to the 1st – 2nd quarter. 2016,%
1 Omnipharm 5 289 5,6 1,1
2

Apteka.ru

1 662 0,2 53,1
3 Samson-Pharma 1 440 52,6 1,8
4 Zdorov.ru 765 126,3 -
5 GC Erkafarm (Doctor Stoletov & Ozerki) 750 48,9 21,2
6

Pharmacy chain 36.6

682 23,2 -8,6
7 Pharmacy Dialog 669 124,6 37,5
8 Neo-Pharm 639 51,1 42,9
9 New pharmacy (incl. Minitsen) 631 52,1 17,7
10 Soviet pharmacy 630 15,8 93,5
11 O'Vita 589 37,2 -20,4
12 Duty pharmacies 580 42,6 3,5
13 Evalar 553 43,3 -5,0
14 Pharmeconom 546 71,1 17,1
15 Well of Health (including LekOptTorg) 542 66,8 52,7

The analytical company RNC Pharma ® presents a rating of Russian pharmacy chains based on the results of 1-3 quarters. 2017 Nov.

The third quarter in relation to the Russian pharmaceutical retailer abounded with a variety of events. We had to witness both all kinds of transactions, often quite large ones, and the resumption of rhetoric on certain regulatory issues, in particular, the possibility of selling drugs in supermarkets.

The issue of expanding the points of sale of medicinal products, which has been intermittently continued since 2014, has already become quite fed up. Neither representatives of the professional pharmaceutical community can find any obvious expediency in this innovation, nor, we would venture to assume, representatives of the "big retail", which are slowly but surely developing their own projects in the pharmaceutical retail. However this question rises from the bowels of the Government with enviable constancy.

Deals, the number of which seems to be growing every day, have also become an almost common occurrence. It is also difficult to suspect originality of the change of owners of Classic and Pharmacor, even if adjusted for the decent size of the companies, if only due to the striking similarity of the fate of these companies prior to the sale and the organizational format in which the transactions were carried out.

So, upon closer examination, the apparent diversity of the information flow leaves a feeling of a certain déjà vu, which, against the background of quite obvious signs of stagnation of the Russian pharmaceutical market, looks very symptomatic.

Tab. TOP pharmacy chains by share in the retail-commercial drug market in Russia based on the results of 1-3 quarters. 2017 Nov.

Pharmacy chain

Headquarters location

Number of points as of 01.10.2017

Market share by the results of 1-3 quarters 2017,%

not LP

market as a whole, without LLO

Classic pharmacy chains

ASNA 1

Rigla 2

Pharmacy chain 36.6 3

Erkafarm Group of Companies

Implosion 2

Pharmacies operating under the Health Planet brand

Neo-Pharm

Farmland

Pharmaimpex 2

Pharmacy Timer

April

Krasnodar

Pharmacopoeia - Your Doctor

Melody of health

Novosibirsk

Vita

Maksavit (including 36.7C)

N.Novgorod

Pharmacy associations 4

Propharmacy

St. Petersburg

SPRING

St. Petersburg

Apteka.ru

Novosibirsk

FarmHub

Parnassus

Alliancepharma

St. Petersburg

Gradis-Pharma

Vlasta

Nadezhda-Farm

1 - ASNA belongs to the group of classic pharmacy chains due to the deeper level of integration of business processes compared to associative-type chains

2 - expert judgment

3 - the total number of outlets is indicated taking into account Pharmacora pharmacies, the company's turnover for the period is not taken into account

4 - positions of pharmacy associations are calculated without taking into account the intersections of the members of the associations with each other. This rating shows the market share occupied by the union of pharmacy chains and single pharmacies