Marathon Group (Russian company)
Marathon Group (founded on May 15, 2017, Moscow) is an investment business founded by Alexander Vinokurov and Sergey Zakharov.[1][2] The company is focused on acquiring and developing pharmaceutical, infrastructure and agricultural assets.
Marathon Retail[edit]
Marathon started its activity in the retail sector from the acquisition of a stake in the largest Russian retailer - Magnit. After expanding activity in this market, the sub-holding Marathon Retail was formed.
Magnit[edit]
Marathon Group is one of the biggest shareholder of the top Russian supermarket chain Magnit. The 11,8% stake was bought from VTB in May 2018.[3] Later, at November 2018, Magnit closed the deal to purchase SIA Group pharmaceutical distributor from Marathon Group and paid for it with its own shares (1.5%). As the result, Magnit became the owner of SIA International Ltd., and gained indirect control over a 100% stake in SIA through his subsidiaries. Marathon Group increased its stake in Magnit to 13.3%. In 2020, Marathon increased it's ownership of Magnit up to 16.7%.[4][5][6][7]
KFC[edit]
Marathon Group, as a part of the consortium of Russian and international financial investors, acquired a 23.53% share in Restaurant Brands International, the largest KFC franchisee in Russia.[8]
Fix Price[edit]
Fix Price is the only variety value retailer of scale in Russia and one of the leading retailers in the segment globally[9].
Marathon Pharma[edit]
Marathon Pharma is a sub-holding controlling all the Marathon Group's pharmaceutical assets. In different periods of evolution it were Sintez and Biocom enterprises (owned from May, 2017 and sold to AFK Sistema in the summer of 2019[10]), Fort biopharmaceutical company[11]. Now pharmaceutical asset is Bentus Laboratories[12].
An attempt to create a monopoly in the Russian mandatory vaccination market[edit]
In August 2017, the Marathon Group and Rostec state corporation announced the merger of pharmaceutical assets to create a manufacturer and supplier of federal pharmaceutical products and implement comprehensive import substitution in a number of healthcare areas.[13][14] According to the terms of the shareholder agreement signed in February 2018, Rostec was to transfer a blocking stake (25% plus one share) Nacimbio company to Marathon Group, and Marathon Group was to transfer to Natsimbio up to 49% of the shares of the pharmaceutical distributor CJSC SIA International LTD, as well as blocks of shares in the Sintez and Fort factories owned by the Marathon Group. In June 2018, Rostec and Marathon Group decided that SIA Group would not enter the transaction perimeter due to the redundancy of the distributor’s capacities to meet the needs of Nacimbio. Due to the previously established status of Nacimbio as the sole supplier[15] of a number of vaccines , the completion of the transaction were equvalent of creating a partially private monopoly in Russian vaccine market. But, later, the agreement was not implemented.
Marathon Infrastructure[edit]
In April 2020, the Marathon Group acquired 24.99% in Demetra Holding. Demetra Holding holds an infrastructure companies'group, which controls most of the Russian grain exports logistics market. The company owns 50% minus one share in United Grain Company, a state agent for conducting grain interventions.
Demetra Holding also owns the stakes in the following assets: the Novorossiysk Grain Terminal, Novorossiysk Grain Plant, specialized grain terminal in Taman port, Russia's leading railway shipping company for grain Rusagrotrans, Mirogroup Resources and others.[16]
Marathon Sport[edit]
Current projects under a Marathon Sport brand are IQ Sports training service and professional Marathon-Tula Cycling Team. In June 2021 4 athletes of the Marathon-Tula cycling team have joined the Russian national team for the Olympic Games.[17]
Other activities[edit]
In 2020 Marathon Group and FC Dynamo Moscow announce the start of cooperation: Marathon Group is the official sponsor of the team for 2020/2021.
References[edit]
- ↑ Message on company site
- ↑ "ВТБ реализовал 11,82% акций «Магнита» компании Marathon Group". Talks.su (in русский). Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ ""Магнит" стал владельцем фармдистрибьютора "СИА Групп"" (in русский). Interfax. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ↑ Структура Marathon Group приобрела еще 0,4% акций "Магнита". Prime Agency. Feb 24/2020
- ↑ Николай Хижняк (2020-09-11). "Связанная с Винокуровым "Марафон Ритейл" приобрела еще 0,14% акций "Магнита"". ПРАЙМ (in русский). Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ↑ ""Магнит" может выплатить почти 25 млрд рублей дивидендов за 9 месяцев 2020 года". TASS (in русский). 2020-11-18.
- ↑ "Marathon Group довела свою долю в «Магните» до 16,7%". РБК (in русский). Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ↑ Elena Suhirukova, Irina Parfentieva (March 29, 2019). "ВТБ окрылили успехи на рынке фастфуда Зачем госбанк и Marathon стали партнерами KFC в России" (in русский). RBC.
- ↑ "Fix Price объявил о планах провести IPO в Лондоне и Москве". Interfax.ru (in русский). 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2021-07-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Marathon Group и АФК "Система" закрыли сделку по приобретению фармкомпаний "Синтез" и "Биоком"". AK&M. August 8, 2019.
- ↑ "Marathon Pharma buys a controlling stake in the Fort plant". GMPnews. May 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Sistema PJSFC: Sistema to acquire pharmaceutical companies Sintez and Biocom from Marathon Group". Markets Insider. Jun 7, 2019.
- ↑ Мария Котова (2018-02-09). ""Rostec" will refuse drugs". Коммерсантъ (in russian).CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Анна Дерябина (2018-08-03). "Rostec and Marathon Group mergeing pharmaceutical assets". Vademecum (in russian).CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Rostec, Marathon Group sign Shareholder Agreement". AK&M. 2018-02-13.
- ↑ ВТБ продал почти половину зернового бизнеса. РБК. 30.04.2020
- ↑ "Назван состав сборной России по велоспорту ОИ". Interfax.ru (in русский). 2021-07-24. Retrieved 2021-07-25. Unknown parameter
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