"Rigla" acquired all the points of the "Apteka25.rf" chain from Vladivostok

According to Boris Popov, CEO of Rigla, the deal will strengthen the company's position in the Far Eastern Federal District. Over the past year and a half, the chain's share in the region has grown from 3.2% to 24.2%.

Apteka25.rf LLC was registered in 2016 in Vladivostok, Avanti Pharma LLC in 2008, and Pharma Life LLC in 2012. Denis Belikov has been the owner of the two companies since their foundation. He became the beneficiary of Apteka 25.rf only in February 2022. According to the Vademecum Analytical Center, the Primorsky Krai-based chain demonstrated revenue of 4.08 billion rubles in 2024. With this figure, the retailer took 41st place in the TOP200 pharmacy chains based on the results of 2024.

Rigla, registered in Moscow, took first place in the same ranking with a turnover of 194.5 billion rubles and 5.5 thousand pharmacies.

The federal player has been consistently increasing its presence in the regions through deals to purchase pharmacy operators. In April 2025, the company acquired six legal entities that were part of the Samara pharmaceutical retailer Aliya-Pharm. Rigla reported at the time that during the deal, the company received 174 institutions, 118 of which are located in Samara. In May 2025, the Moscow operator acquired the Kaliningrad pharmaceutical retailer OOO Linz, which managed the Novaya Apteka brand with more than fifty outlets.

In 2024, the company also carried out a series of major transactions: it acquired 23 of the most profitable points with high traffic from the Rostov chain Norma , 286 pharmacies of the Khabarovsk united chain Novaya Apteka and Apteka Minitsen , 379 establishments of Nizhny Novgorod Pharmacy Network LLC (Farmani and Aptechestvo brands) of Yuri Gaisinsky, 13 Feola pharmacies in Elektrostal (Moscow region), as well as 47 retail outlets of the Saratov Pharmsklad.