KIEV, Oct. 24 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted SBF Southeast European Holdings B.V. (Amsterdam), part of SigmaBleyzer group, to buy over 50% of Kiev-based Sumatra-Ltd., owner of Kosmo retail chain, which sells cosmetics, perfumes and pharmaceutical products.

The committee said that the chain has stores in Kiev, Zhytomyr, Kiev, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Khmelnytsky and Cherkasy regions.