Kommersant: the owners of the Biblio-Globus bookstore plan to sell it

Earlier in Cyana an advertisement was published about the rental of three floors of a store on Moscow’s Lubyanka with an area of ​​3.6 thousand square meters. m, wrote the newspaper “Cultura” on November 13. The advertisement has already been removed from publication, Kommersant clarified. Biblio-Globus did not respond to the newspaper’s request.

Alpina knows that the book trading house is looking for a tenant: “For us it was quite unpleasant news, since the store has been our partner for a long time,” Irina Antonova, marketing director of the publishing group, told Kommersant.

Among potential buyers of Biblio-Globus may be the Read-Gorod network, says Vladimir Kharitonov, technical director of Freedom Letters. Eksmo-AST, which manages Read-Gorod, did not respond to Kommersant’s request. The book trading house itself can be sold for 170-290 million rubles (0.5-0.8 capital), says Anna Avakimyan, chief analyst at Regblok.

“Biblio-Globus” was founded in 1957, when the house number 6 Myasnitskaya Street was moved to the store number 120 “Book World”. In 1992, Book World became Biblio-Globus. Now it sells more than 200 thousand items: books, stationery, coins, bonds, stamps and others.

According to Rusprofile, in 2023 the revenue of Biblio-Globus Trading House LLC amounted to 493 million rubles, a decrease of 16.73% compared to 2022, and the net loss was 18 million rubles against a loss of 21 million of rubles last year.