"36.6" asked suppliers to forgive part of the debt

The 36.6 pharmacy network asked its distributors to provide a 30-50% discount on debt payment. About this writes RBC.

“They ask for a discount of up to 30% of the debt amount. And why should we give them such a discount? For the fact that they are so big? So we will better work with small players who pay, ”said Dmitry Pogrebinsky, CEO of the Potness CV.

According to Pogrebinsky, the total debt of the company to Protekom is 1.4 billion rubles. In total, the total amount of “36.6” at the end of 2015 amounted to 13.2 billion rubles.

The pharmacy network also asked for a discount to the Katren pharmaceuticalist, the debt to which amounted to 1.9 billion rubles. This was announced by a source close to negotiations.

“At first they (“ 36.6 ”) say that they will pay, and then -“ Come in a year - we’ll talk, or give a discount of 50%. ” They conduct negotiations well, hard, efficiently “squeeze” their own, ”the source said.

“Pharmacy Network 36.6” is one of the largest companies in the pharmaceutical market, according to DSM Group, due to the merger with AVE and A5 pharmacies, the company's share in the Russian market reached 5.5%. In Moscow, the share of the network is about 17%.

In January 2016, it became known that 30 claims from pharmaceuticals, manufacturers and other counterparties worth more than 700 million rubles were filed against the A5 network.

According to the results of 2015, the 36.6 network received a loss of 1.2 billion rubles compared to 43 million a year earlier. The company's revenue increased by 67% to 31.9 billion rubles.