The development of the drugstore chains in Russia as consolidation process

Abstract

Nowadays the world trend of the consumer goods market development, as compared with other forms of the organization of business manifests itself in increase of the networked pharmacy retail companies number. The authors of the article describe the process of drugstore network formations in Russia as for curved consolidation growth. The temporal phases of their development are determined. The main process, typical both for the development of the retail segment and for the pharmaceutical field, is revealed.