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Top 50 pharmacy chains with the highest average check Comparing the TOP-200 pharmacy chains in the first half of 2015 and 2016, it can be stated that 10% of companies from the pharmaceutical industry left the rating for various reasons. Among them were such as the Sochi pharmacy chain "Farmada", the first pharmacy kiosk of the chain "Gran", the network of pharmacies "Zdorovye lyudi", the Yekaterinburg company "Stolet" and others. During the preparation of each project, new companies are regularly opened. Of the 20 newly emerging companies of the current rating, only half of them were previously in sight. Another 10 networks entered the database for the first time, two of them are Crimean: AViK by Alexander Lishchenko and Med-Service, which was previously part of Oleg Tokarev's Ukrainian business group. Of those who were previously in mind and received admission to the TOP, it is worth mentioning the Mosapteka network, launched by Ruslan Semyonov, co-owner of the development Sezar Group. “We decided to diversify our business, and the pharmacy segment seemed very attractive,” explains his junior partner Lev Nasimov. The businessmen have ambitious plans - by the end of the year to bring the number of Mosaptecs to 70–75, and by the end of 2017 - to 170 outlets. TOP-200 pharmacy chains based on the results of the first half of 2016: 1. A.v.e Group & Pharmacy Chain "36.6" + A5 Group (Moscow); 2. Rigla (Moscow); 4. Planet of Health (Perm); 5. Implosion (Samara); 6. First Aid & Rainbow (St. Petersburg) + Ladushka (Nizhny Novgorod); 7. Farmland (Ufa); 8. Neo-Pharm (Moscow); 9. Pharmacopeyka (Omsk) & Your Doctor (Tula); 10. Pharmaimpex (Izhevsk); 11. Vita (Samara); 12. Samson-Pharma (Moscow); 13. Pharmacy Timer (Perm); 14. Melody of health (Novosibirsk) & FarmSibKo (Krasnoyarsk) + Gemini (Samara); 15.36.7S & Maksavit (Nizhny Novgorod); 16. Pharmacist + & Nectar (Rostov-on-Don); 18. Classics (Chelyabinsk); 19. New pharmacy & Pharmacy Minitsen (Khabarovsk); 20. Spring of Health & LekOptTorg (St. Petersburg); 21. Nevis (St. Petersburg); 22. Provincial pharmacies (Krasnoyarsk); 23. Pharmacor (St. Petersburg); 24. Alia-Farm (Samara); 25. Zdorov.ru (Moscow); 26. Volgopharm (Volgograd); 27. Regional pharmacy warehouse (Chelyabinsk); 28. Pharmacon (Irkutsk); 29. PharmImEx (Moscow); 30. Floria (Moscow); 31. Pharmacies of the Capital (Moscow); 32. Antey (Vologda); 33. Farmani & Pharmacy (Nizhny Novgorod); 34. Stavropol city pharmacies (Stavropol); 35. Health (Ust-Labinsk); 36. Family pharmacy (Blagoveshchensk); 37. Nizhny Novgorod Regional Pharmacy (Nizhny Novgorod); 38. Novosibirsk pharmacy chain (Novosibirsk); 39. Cheap pharmacy (Rostov-on-Don); 40. Edelweiss (Kemerovo); 41. St. Petersburg pharmacies (St. Petersburg); 42. Yug-Pharma (Rostov-on-Don); 43. Farmakon & Cranberry (Izhevsk); 44. Aloe (Edipharm) (St. Petersburg); 45. TriKa (Moscow); 46. \u200b\u200bO "Vita (Vladivostok); 47. Capital pharmacies (Moscow); 48. Tambovfarmatsiya (Tambov); 49. Kazan pharmacies (Kazan); 50. Lipetskpharmacy (Lipetsk); 51. Monastyrev.rf (Vladivostok); 52. Vitapharm (Moscow); 54. Republican network "36.6C" (Kazan); 55. Pharmacies on duty (Moscow); 56. Orenlek (Orenburg); 57. Pharmaceutical warehouse (Saratov); 58. First aid (Barnaul); 59. Biotek (Moscow); 60. Bashpharmacy (Ufa); 61. Vista (Simferopol); 62. - 63. Maitre (Bryansk); 63. Economy (Moscow); 64. Helmi (Barnaul); 65. Pharmacy (Moscow); 66. Dialogue (Moscow); 67. Kurganfarmatsia (Kurgan); 68. FarmLiga (Kostroma); 69. Family pharmacy (Omsk); 70. Medicine for You (Moscow); 71. Kalina-Farm (Veliky Novgorod); 72. Medbioline (Moscow); 73. - 74 Bryanskfarmatsiya (Bryansk); 74. Tattekhmedpharm (Kazan); 75. Donskaya Pharmacy + (Rostov-on-Don); 76. Pharmacies IFC (Moscow); 77. Permpharmacy (Perm); 78. Pharmacies 36i6 & Zhveya (Irkutsk); 79. Violet (St. Petersburg); 80. NIKA (Moscow); 81. Spray (Ryazan); 82. Evalar (Biysk); 83. AViK (Sevastopol); 84. Our Doctor (Nizhny Novgorod); 85. Omsk medicine (Omsk); 86. Vita-Nord (Arkhangelsk); 87. Voronezhpharmacy (Voronezh); 88. Med-Service (Simferopol); 89. State Pharmacy (Izhevsk); 90. Heart (Moscow); 91. World of Medicine (Kemerovo); 92. FORMULA HEALTH (Murmansk); 93. My pharmacy (Novosibirsk); 94. -95. Avicenna (Irkutsk); 95. Healthy city (Voronezh); 96. Pharmacy JSC (Arkhangelsk); 97. Rifarm (Chelyabinsk); 98. Harmony of health (Krasnoyarsk); 99. Pharmacy of Murmansk (Murmansk); 100. Health (Ivanovo); 101. Khanty-Mansiysk pharmacy (Khanty-Mansiysk); 102. Pharmacy of thrifty people (Vladivostok); 103. Pharmacy CO (Yekaterinburg); 104.-105. Nadezhda-Farm (Tambov); 105. Mitsar-N (Moscow); 106. Pharmacy of Chuvashia (Cheboksary); 107. Eniseymed (Krasnoyarsk); 108. BioMed (Samara); 109. Formula of health (Kaliningrad); 110. Ulyanovskpharmacy (Ulyanovsk); 111. Medial (Zelenograd); 112. Pharmacies of Kuban (Krasnodar); 113. Pharmacies of Kuzbass (Kemerovo); 114. Pharmacy house (Kemerovo); 115. Pharmacy HC (Khabarovsk); 116. Pharmastar (Moscow); 117. Vita-Plus (Pyatigorsk); 118. Vitapharm (Togliatti); 119. Your doctor (Biysk); 120. Pharmacy chain of the North-West holding (St. Petersburg); 121. Amurpharmacy (Blagoveshchensk); 122. Kalugafarmatsiya (Kaluga); 123. Pharmacy traditions (Kursk); 124. Pharmacy TO (Tyumen); 125. Pharmacy Standard (Yekaterinburg); 126. Successful (St. Petersburg); 127. Be healthy! (Nizhny Novgorod); 128. Dynasty (Yakutsk); 129. Keith Pharma (Railway); 130. Novgorodpharmacy (Veliky Novgorod); 131. Bonum (Saratov); 132. Pharmacy Central (Ryazan); 133. Longevity (Moscow); 134. Shah (Astrakhan); 135. University Pharmacy (St. Petersburg); 136. Pharmacist (Yaroslavl); 137. VekPharm (Moscow); 138. Pharmaceuticals (Voronezh); 139. DOMfarma (Kolomna); 140.-141. Pharmia (Voronezh); 141. Rainbow Health (Moscow); 142.-143. Pharmacy 313 (Nizhny Novgorod); 143. New hospital (Yekaterinburg); 144. New pharmacy (Kaliningrad); 145. Riviera (Kazan); 146. AZON (Bryansk); 147. Eco-Chem (Irkutsk); 148. OblPharm (Yaroslavl); 149. Cardio (Saratov); 150. Lekrus (St. Petersburg); 151. CRA 80 (Irkutsk); 152. Violet (Tomsk); 153. Zero Pain (Novosibirsk); 154. To your health (Astrakhan); 155. Rainbow (Yekaterinburg); 156. Doctor (Yekaterinburg); 157. Soviet Pharmacy (St. Petersburg); 158. Secret of Longevity (Penza); 159. Jack (Yekaterinburg); 160. Lara (Ulan-Ude); 161. Dalpharma (Khabarovsk); 162. Farmikon (Chelyabinsk); 163. Karelfarm (Petrozavodsk); 164. Rostovoblpharmacy (Rostov-on-Don); 165. Living pharmacy (Tomsk); 166. Rilai (Tver); 167. State pharmacies of the Komi Republic (Syktyvkar); 168. SIA (Krasnoyarsk); 169. Kubanfarmatsiya (Krasnodar); 170. Medunitsa (Saratov); 171. Regional pharmacy warehouse (Orenburg); 172. Pharmacy VO (Vologda); 173.-174. Dimpharm (Moscow); 174. Vita (Tomsk); 175.-176. Medstroy (Stary Oskol); 176. Esculap (Naberezhnye Chelny); 177. Mosapteka (Moscow); 178. Sakura (Kazan); 179. Phytopharm (Anapa); 180. Pharmacy on duty (Rostov-on-Don); 181. Formula of Health (Moscow); 182. Celeste (Irkutsk); 183. Pharmacy RM (Saransk); 184. Witch Doctor (Moscow); 185. Heart of Karelia (Petrozavodsk); 186. Artemis (Moscow); 187. Pharmacy No. 1 (Barnaul); 188. Lada-Doctor (Moscow); 189. Centenary (Mytishchi); 190. Pharmacy for the thrifty (Murmansk); 191.003 (Pskov); 192. Laura Plus (Krasnodar); 193. Diaspharm (Moscow); 194. Healer (Makhachkala); 195. Baikal pharmacies (Ulan-Ude); 196. Rosehip (St. Petersburg); 197. Tomskfarmatsiya (Tomsk); 198. Panacea (Novgorod); 199. - 200. Crimea-Pharmacy (Simferopol); 200. City pharmacies (Penza). 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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 expert estimates, 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 review RNC Pharma
** The total share of the pharmacy chain in 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. Pharmacies under the Zdorovya Planet brand are in second place 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 (score) | |
| 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 the pharmacy chain in 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 of 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 pharmacies.
| 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 (score) |
| 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 in 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
A rating by the size of the average check was also presented. According to this parameter, the first place is taken by the Omnipharm network (5,289 rubles). In second place is “Pharmacy. ru "with an average check of RUB 1,662. 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 based on the results of Q1-Q2 2017 |
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| Rating | Pharmacy chain | Average check size, rub. | Number of receipts per 1 pharmacy, thousand units | 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 |
As one of the central topics for the Russian pharmaceutical retail, at the beginning of this year, the issue of allowing 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 presented 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 probability 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 company's founder Sergei Galitsky to VTB Bank.
We will not quote "conspiracy theories" about the starting 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, in the current 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,% | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 in comparison with 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 association members with each other. This rating shows the market share occupied by the union of pharmacy chains and single pharmacies |
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The analytical company RNC Pharma ® presents a rating of Russian pharmacy chains based on the results of 1-3 quarters. 2017
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 continuing 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. Nevertheless, this issue is raised 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 variety information flow leaves a feeling of some déjà vu, which looks quite symptomatic against the background of quite obvious signs of stagnation in the Russian pharmaceutical market.
Tab. TOP pharmacy chains by share in the retail-commercial drug market in Russia based on the results of 1-3 quarters 2017
| Pharmacy chain | Headquarters location | Number of points as of 01.10.2017 | Market share by the results of 1-3 quarters 2017,% |
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| not LP | market as a whole, without LLO |
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| Classic pharmacy chains |
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| 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 |
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| 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 association members with each other. This rating shows the market share occupied by the union of pharmacy chains and single pharmacies |
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MarketMedia studied which pharmacy chains in Russia were included in the top ten largest in terms of the number of outlets.
According to the results of the first quarter of 2018, the top ten classic pharmacy chains in terms of the number of outlets in Russia totaled more than 11 thousand pharmacies. In total, more than two thousand chains operate in the country, which account for 81.2% of the Russian retail market of pharmaceuticals 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 has long ended, 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. Currently, there is a low demand for drugs and related products.
Federal chains, which have bought up 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 top five, then there are four Moscow networks and one Perm network. The top 10 did not include regional drugstore chains that have 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 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 Implosion software for purchases) or franchises.
The third place is occupied by the Novosibirsk network "Melodiya Zdorovya" (1.8 thousand), which also has more than 50% of its outlets in partnership.
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 go out of business on not bad conditions yet, ”Nikolai Bespalov believes.
1. Rigla
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 numbers more than 2.1 thousand pharmacies in 50 regions of Russia. In addition to the main brand Rigla, this company operates under 12 other brand names, including Zhivika, Apteki 03, Yugorskiy Lekar, etc. Its share in the retail drug market is 5.6% in rubles. Rigla, which has bought 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 growth of the network and increase in revenue outstripping the growth rates of the pharmaceutical market, said Alexander Filippov, CEO of the Rigla pharmacy chain.
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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 format of drogerie under the Ozerki brand in the low price segment. The first stores will be opened in St. Petersburg and the 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 1470 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 has more than 1.4 thousand pharmacies, including under the brand “Country of Childhood”, in 50 cities of Russia. In the Perm Territory, the network 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. Her share on russian market drugs is estimated at 3.1%.
6. Farmland
The sixth place in the ranking 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 chains, Krasnodar pharmacy retail also develops through the purchase local area 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 points), 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 Low Price Pharmacy. The consolidated share of the pharmaceuticals market reached 1.4%.
