In the first quarter of 2020, outlined in last year’s trend reduction in the number of transactions M&A has worsened. If you have previously mostly only the big chains refused to buy the regional outlets, now the interest in this and are losing local players. In the end with January to March the number of transactions fell by almost two times.In the first quarter of 2020 in the market of pharmaceutical retail there were 14 mergers and acquisitions — almost twice less than the previous year when their number reached 26. A study conducted by research company Alpharm and the branch newspaper “Pharmaceutical Bulletin”, which read “y”. According to him, the largest deal in the first quarter was the sale of 39 points Kaliningrad “Formula of health” network “Rigla”, which also acquired five pharmacies in Arkhangelsk “Panacea” and Kamchatka “Paracelsus”. Moscow “inter-regional retail pharmaceutical company” (brand A. V. E.) bought 15 points of the Metropolitan network “Floria”. 11 points gained Vologda “Antey” and Novosibirsk “the Melody of health” the network “Аптека29.ru” in the Arkhangelsk region and Yaroslavl “Yukon”, respectively.For comparison: in the first quarter of 2019, the most significant transaction was the purchase of Rostov “Pharmacist+” 155 points “South farm”, still a total of 164 pharmacy bought Perm “Pharmacy warehouse” from four players in different regions. In addition, the major networks began to lose interest in transactions last year, when for the first time from 2016, on the retail pharmaceutical market has been a fall in real terms by 1.8% year-on-year.By the end of 2020, the situation may worsen, because of excessive demand on the pharmacy range in March was followed by a sharp drop in April. In addition, the summer traditionally is a low sales. It is therefore possible that the number of proposals for the sale of the pharmacy business will increase, but buyers, in turn, will be reduced, concludes Mr. Shulyak.Instead of increasing the number of points-of-network pharmacy of their reduced. According Alpharm and “Pharmvestnik”, due to the reduction of traffic in the torgtsentrov a number of major networks temporarily closed the portion located there of the points. So, by the end of April the number of points of GK “Erkafarm” (“Doctor Stoletov”, “Ozerki”) decreased by 102, the network “Melodiya Zdorovya” — 37, “the Neofarma” (brands “Neofarma” and “Stolichni”) — on 30. To resume work it is assumed as the restoration of traffic. In “Wrigley” for example, I believe this can be done when the torgtsentrov will return at least 70% of landlords.Maria Kotova
