The media learned about Mordashov’s plans to buy an “ABC of taste” network

According to the interlocutors of the publication, we are talking about buying the entire Taste ABC business, which includes 103 supermarkets of the same name, 59 mini markets of the ABC Daily in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as culinary production in these cities with a capacity of 50 tons of products in these cities day.

According to one of the sources, the owners of the ABC Plan to help about 40 billion rubles of the sale, the other source states that the Severswroup is only evaluating the cost of the retailer.

The head of the M&A department in the capital of BGP, Ivan Peshkov, in a conversation with Vdomosti, said that the market value of the ABC, taking into account the debt, is 25 billion to 30 billion rubles. According to Mikhail Burmistrov, general director of Infoline Analytics, the amount of the transaction can amount to 35-40 billion rubles and will depend on multipliers and financial indicators by 2024, which the company has not yet made public.

Burmistrov added that the potential transaction “will be a sign”, and the new owners will retain their brand behind the network: “One of the key components of the cost of the network is a strong brand and a loyal audience with high income.”

For the first half of 2024, the income of the City Supermarket LLC, which controls the alphabet of taste, increased by 21%to 48 billion rubles, the net gains amounted to 760 million rubles, against the loss of 830 million Rublos for the same period of 2023.

According to Peshkov, the “ABC of taste” has been growing in recent years due to the opening of the “daily alphabet” in places with high costs through the country, which is committed to ready dishes, one of the fastest growth. Categories in Retail Food Trade. The company also increases online sales and develops its own Darcsters network, said Burmistrov.

In 2019, Northgroup bought 41.9% of the actions of slow hypermarket, which subsequently increased its 80% participation. In December 2024, slowly acquired 100% of the voting shares of the Trading House JSC era, which has a chain of stores in the drug format “The smile of the rainbow”.

Mordashov also has the online retailer of Utkonos, which was bought in the winter of 2022 for 20 billion rubles, and a chain of 2.1 thousand Monetka stores located in Urals and Western Siberia.