PHARMACIES SALES IN UKRAINE HAVE SHOWN STEADY GROWTH ON THE RESULTS OF 7 MONTHS

Pharmacies sales in Ukraine for the period from January to July 2017 grew by 17% and reached 36.6 bln. UAH in monetary terms, and by 10% up to 850 mln. of packages as comared with the same period of the previous year.
Weighted average price per package of pharmacy basket grew by 16% up to 42.91 UAH for 7 months of 2017 as comared with the period from January-July of 2016.
Sales of medicines from the pharmacies increased by 16% to 29,699 bln. UAH in monetary term, and in kind by 10% to 527,456 mln. of packages for the period from January to July of 2017.
Weighted average price of pharmaceuticals in pharmacy retail made 56.3 UAH per package on 7 months of 2017 results.
 
As indicated, the turnover of pharmacy retail market for 7 months of 2017 grew owing to the growth of demand.
The highest was the gain in sales amount in low price segment owing to the inflow of new products. Experts mark the significat increase in demand in high price niche, middleprice segment demonstrate the highest growth of weighted average prices.