Sales include results of Ecofarmacia, a chain Help Net acquired at the end of 2019. Ecofarmacia merged into Help Net in April this year.
Ecofarmacia registered sales of RON89 million in 2020. The takeover added 32 units located across Transylvania to Help Net’s portfolio. The deal received antitrust clearance in March 2020.
Help Net operates 413 pharmacies in Romania and over 2,400 employees. It is owned by Germany’s Phoenix since 2018, when it was bought together with local wholesaler Farmexim.
Romania has 8,100 pharmacies countrywide according to the most recent data, fewer compared with 2018.
The top market players are chains Catena, Dr. Max(Sensiblu), Help Net, Dona and Ropharma, with hundreds of units each.