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2022: Business development in Moscow and St. Petersburg
The Krasnoyarsk network "Center for Laboratory Technologies" ABV "opened three branches in Moscow and is going to expand its business in the capital region, as well as in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. This became known on August 10, 2022.
According to Kommersant, Roszdravnadzor issued licenses for five branches in Moscow and four branches in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region for the legal entity ABV Center Medical Offices and ABV North-West Medical Offices. The company intends to open another 15-20 medical offices in the capital by the end of 2022, as well as go to another region - the Irkutsk region. According to the owner of the network Igor Varlamov, the ABV does not rely on research on COVID-19. In total, it is planned to open 30 branches by the end of 2022, of which half are in Moscow, Varlamov said.
According to the ABV website, there are already three branches in Moscow by August 2022, four more are preparing to open. There are also facilities in Abakan (Republic of Khakassia) and several cities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory - Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk, Minusinsk and Nazarovo. There are also four branches in St. Petersburg.
DSM Group CEO Sergei Shulyak, in a conversation with the newspaper, estimated the necessary investment in the opening of one biomaterial collection point at about 300 thousand rubles. Invitro offers its partners to open franchise branches with investments of 1.5-5.4 million rubles, in Gemotest - 2.2-3.5 million rubles.
According to Sergei Shulyak, the number of sampling points will grow, because the patient is important for a convenient location near the house or work. This, the expert does not exclude, can lead to a decrease in the average check and attendance, and then to a decrease in the profitability of the department of the medical laboratory, but will increase the workload of the network as a whole.[1]