On February 8, 2011 it became known that the large Russian IT distributor Merlion agrees about purchase of a part of business of the Verysell group specializing in installation and implementation of the IT equipment.
Told Vedomosti the source familiar with several managers of Verysell about negotiations between Merlion and owners of Verysell. According to him, to the staff of Verysell already announced the forthcoming transaction. According to the main owner and the president of the Lanit IT group Georgy Gens, it is about sale of exclusively distribution business Verysell (Verysell Distribution). Negotiations go, but the deal is not closed yet, the representative of large system integrator knows.
The founder and the chairman of coordination council of Verysell Krasnov Mikhail told Vedomosti that there are different negotiations with the different parties, but there are no final outputs yet.
Contracts with such suppliers as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems can become the contribution Verysell to business of Merlion, assumes Gens.