A5 pharmacy chain

The range of pharmaceutical points contains more than 15 thousand names of goods for health and beauty.

As for STM, at a portfolio of network there are already more than 100 brands of goods. Further development more than 10 lines of goods is planned. A5 cooperates with the fud-retailer, X5 Retail Group company on which floor spaces their drugstores open.

At the main office A5 - 400 PCs of users.

History

2016: Kommersant: A5 pharmacy chain leaves regions

The network of drugstores A5 is going to close or sell until the end of February, 2016 the drugstores in a number of Russian regions, Kommersant with reference to the source close to group writes. In A5 confirmed that in plans to leave only the drugstores located in Moscow the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region^[1].

According to the company, at the end of 2015 the network owned about 1.1 thousand drugstores. The decision on reduction of their number was made after on December 25 the Rossium concern of the banker Roman Avdeev became the owner of 68.75% of the company (other packet Baring Vostok Investments PCC Ltd — one of funds of the Baring Vostok group owns). Then the management of network was replaced: instead of Andrey Gusev Sergey Bicherakhov became the CEO.

Besides, on January 18, 2016 it was announced the preparing merge of businesses of A5 and 36.6 pharmacy chain based on the last. Consolidation should come to the end in July. As the director of corporate finances "36.6" Yury Gusarov reported, after completion of merge of drugstore of A5 rebrand in "36.6" and "Gorzdrav".

Within preparation for merge management of A5 already closed the smallest trade format of the company — about hundred pharmaceutical booths. Now he intends to sell 71 drugstores in the Central Federal District (CFD), 65 — in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and eight — in Chelyabinsk. In total according to the results of restructuring there have to be 775 drugstores: 118 in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the others — in Moscow and area.

It is reported that on a part of regional drugstores buyers are already found. In Chelyabinsk interest was shown by the Bashkir network "Pharmlend", in the Nizhny Novgorod Region — "Pharmkomplekt", on drugstores in the CFD negotiations with BSS company (network of drugstores Aloe) are conducted.

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