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Ticketing operators have become attractive to technology companies. After MTS closed the deal for the purchase of Ticketland and Ponominalu.ru services, Tinkoff Bank is preparing to acquire a stake in Kbadir.ru

The Promoters Project

On Negotiations 39 purchase between Tinkoff Bank and the owner of "Cashier.ru" RBC said a source familiar with the details of the discussion. The information that such negotiations are ongoing has been confirmed by RBC and the general manager and the main owner of the service, Eugene Finkelstein, without specifying the details. "We are really communicating with" Cashier.ru ", but we are not disclosing any details," said the Tinkoff Bank representative in turn. He added that the bank is constantly negotiating "with various brilliant projects", whose activities are complementary to the interests of the Tinkoff group.

The Bank can buy a stake in Russian affairs "Kbadir.ru", says a source close to the negotiations. As stated on the service website, he sells tickets for various events in 70 Russian cities. In addition, the group includes ticket operators in the Baltic States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

The founders of OOO "Kbadir.ru" – the national ticket operator, according to EGRYULE for July 2018, are Yevgeny Finkelstein (85%) and Nadezhda Solovyova (15%). The first is known as the president of the Music Industry Society of St. Petersburg (PMI), promoter of Madonna, Lady Gaga and Scooter in Russia and as a developer (in particular, he planned to build the Theater of the Song Alla Pugacheva in St. Petersburg). Solovyov is also a promoter, the main owner of SAV Entertainment (tours organized in Russia by Paul McCartney, Elton John, David Bowie, etc.). SAV Entertainment left RBC's request unanswered.

Two years ago, Finkelstein announced to "Business Petersburg" that in 2016 the service business figure exceeded 13 billion Russian rubles. rubles, of which 7.5 billion rubles. the rubles fell on Russia. The entire domestic banknote market the main owner of "Cashier.ru" then estimated at 45 billion rubles. rubles. In 2017, "Cashier.ru" won in Russia still 7.5 billion rubles. rubles, operating profit was 1.3 billion. rubles, according to RBC Finkelstein

Following in the footsteps of MTS

Tinkoff Bank became interested in the box office after the MTS group concluded the deal to buy Ticketland.ru, the second largest player on this market after "Cashier.ru". The communication operator also bought the service Ponominalu.ru. Together, the two companies, according to MTS, "control a quarter of theater and concert ticket sales in Russia". Ticketland.ru was valued at 3.25 billion ross. rubles, Ponominalu.ru – in 495 million ross.rubley with their income last year of about 1 billion and 200 million rubles.

"Now, after the transaction with MTS, we can badume that the gradual merger of our resources with Ponominalu.ru will move us forward, but until now we are the second," the words of Ticketland's general manager .ru Vitaly Vinogradov in the PwC study on the Russian ticket market.

The evaluation of the service "Cashier.ru" can not be less than the cost of Ticketland.ru and Ponominalu.ru combined – 3.7 billion rubles. Dmitry Perlin, former director according to the ticketing program of the Organizing Committee of Sochi 2014, estimates . The expert shares the fact that commercial models ticketing services are identical, and that their value for business-buyers is equivalent.

Application for ecosystem

"Through mobile devices, the Internet becomes business infrastructure, not only allows to receive a commercial message, but also to buy immediately goods, pay and order delivery or, if it is a service, to receive it instantly "Mail.Ru Group Dmitry Sergeev.

The acquisition of the ticketing will allow MTS to add to its own mobile application ecosystem a new useful and attractive feature for the purchase of tickets from mobile devices, confirms the representative of the MTS. According to estimates by MTS, the share of online sales for offline events now accounts for about 43% of the turnover of the whole internal market and in the United States. major cities 60% of electronic tickets.

is positioned com me the first Russian online bank . During the IPO of the bank on the London Stock Exchange in 2013, Tinkov urged investors to consider that his company was not financial but technological and that, therefore, Tinkoff Bank should be valued by the multiples of computer companies . everything related to financial transactions, everything related to everyday things was in the phone. We have practically done it, we are about to close it, "said Mr. Tinkov this spring at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg." Now we will complete the ecosystem, which will 39; a person will be able to buy plane tickets and train, and all from this phone, our mobile application. "The bank is already developing in other areas not Financial: Last year, the credit agency launched a virtual mobile operator on Tele2 frequencies and bought 55% of the payment service Cloudpayments.