The size of the Russian pharmaceutical market has further increased

In 2016, the Russian pharmaceutical market reached 1.344 trillion rubles, up 7% yoY. Annual sales were essentially the same as in 2015, reaching 5.1 billion packages. Market growth mainly comes from commercial sales, retail market sales growth is good, growth mainly from over-the-counter drugs, the current market in the background of the decline in sales of original drugs, generic drugs have a growing trend.
trend in 2016 is the growth in sales of locally produced medicines in Russia. The market share of sales and sales was 29% and 61%, respectively. Drug import substitution has been effective in recent years, with the share of imported drugs declining year by year and replaced by an increase in the local production of medicines, thanks to the "restriction of access to government procurement of imported medicines" ("the principle that more than two local companies bid and import companies are no longer involved"). Although local companies are also growing, multinationals such as Sanofi, Novarma and Bayer still dominate the market.
for distribution and pharmacy chains, 2016 has shown an increasingly concentrated trend. The field of pharmaceutical distribution in Russia has changed dramatically in the past few years. In the past two years, three local sales companies have made the top 20, filling the gap. The three companies are in the top three, growing from 45 percent of the market in 2015 to 56 percent in 2016, and the competition among the three largest sales companies is fierce, with Protek at 21.5 percent sales and Katren at 21.2 percent, while Пульс has grown rapidly in recent years, accounting for 13.3 percent.
addition, the consolidation of pharmacy chains has become a major trend in 2016. ASNA, the independent pharmacy association, has achieved the best results among pharmacy alliances and pharmacy chains, with 4,215 outlets, accounting for 7.8 per cent of the market. Of these, 36.6 pharmacies accounted for the highest proportion, at 4.7 per cent. (Health Care Chamber of Commerce)