YEREVAN, June 7. /ARKA/. Armenian Anelik Bank together with Gedeon Richter network of pharmacies and Star retailer presented today a new plastic card called "Caring." The cards are issued in cooperation with the network of pharmacies.

"The new card offers all the benefits of payment and settlement, bonus and discounts networks. In particular, cardholders will be awarded 10% additional storage units when making purchases in Star stores,’ Armen Arevyan, head of Anelik Bank Marketing and Public Relations Department, said.

He said cards will be provided free to those pensioners who will agree to have their pensions transferred on these cards. All others will have to pay 2000 drams as annual maintenance fee. The minimum balance is also 2,000 drams.

The cards can be obtained in all branches of the bank. They will also offer discounts in almost four hundred retail outlets in Armenia.

Anna Astvattsaturyan from gedeon Richter said the pharmacy network will offer a 5% discount to those customers who will make purchases in their pharmacies by using this card. ($1-413.26 drams). -0-