List of pharmacies

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This article is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores) by country.

Australia [edit]

Pharmacies in Australia are mostly independently-owned by pharmacists, often operated as franchises of retail brands offered by the three major pharmaceutical wholesalers in Australia: Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), Sigma Pharmaceuticals, and Symbion Health. A minority of pharmacies are owned by friendly societies, particularly in Victoria and South Australia.

API brands [edit]

Sigma brands [edit]

  • Amcal — formerly the Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited
  • Guardian Pharmacies

Symbion brands [edit]

Chains [edit]

Brazil [edit]

These are the four biggest drugstore companies in Brazil by revenue:

Canada [edit]

China [edit]

The key players in the drugstore industry in China are:

  • China Nepstar, Shenzhen-based – China's largest
  • Super-Pharm, Israeli company has about 65 stores in China, as of 2007
  • Watsons, owned HK-based Hutchison Whampoa

Denmark [edit]

In Denmark, all pharmacies are owned by the Association of Danish Pharmacies and controlled by the state. There are two pharmaceutically-trained groups with a higher education in the Danish pharmacies: pharmaconomists (Danish: 'farmakonomer') and pharmacists (farmaceuter). There are also pharmacy technicians (defektricer) who have a vocational training and unskilled laborers/workers (servicemedarbejdere) who perform manual labour.

Germany [edit]

Germany is the biggest pharmacy market in Europe with €35 billion, or $46 billion, of revenue each year. In Germany, pharmacies are known as "Apotheken". Like France, they are all independently-owned by pharmacists, and like France, there are no pharmacy chains. In hindsight to consumer protection, German law bans chains of Apotheken, but generally allows self- employed pharmacists to individually operate a maximum of four outlets, all of which must be in close proximity.

Other types of retailing are strongly opposed to offer the same types of services as an Apotheke. These retailers would not have the necessary expertise to provide proper patient care and this has been upheld by the European Court of Justice in its ruling of May 2009. Traditionally in Germany, drugs were not discountable and the entire trade with pharmaceuticals was limited to the single channel of the Apotheke. In 2004 however, the health care reform law GMG[disambiguation needed] allowed free pricing of OTC- products. This led to a significant decrease of OTC- prices in competitive areas. Internet and mail-order purchasing of drugs has also become an alternative, however it only accounts for about 5% of German pharmaceutical trade.

Online pharmacy DocMorris has been introducing the first, licence based pharmacy chain model in Germany in 2007. Alongside their brand, they are offering standardized services in their pharmacies, whilst they do not operate or own them. They also offer discounted OTC products. Besides this model, German pharmacies are for the most part organized in wholesaler- based cooperations like LINDA,[disambiguation needed] gesund leben, Meine Apotheke or Vivesco. These cooperations are offering discounts in purchasing and support e.g. in Marketing.

DocMorris CEO Ralf Daeinghaus claims the German system to be monopolistic because government sets the profit margin that drug makers, wholesalers and pharmacists are allowed to make, resulting in strongly invariant price levels at all traditional outlets- even though most of the 21,500 pharmacies in the country are run independently. Traditional German pharmacists respond that a strategy of generally discounting pharmaceuticals may push people to use more drugs and would be against the general principles of health and customer protection.[1]

Hong Kong [edit]

India [edit]

Ireland [edit]

Israel [edit]

Macau [edit]

Mexico [edit]

Moldova(Republic of) [edit]

New Zealand [edit]

Norway [edit]

Philippines [edit]

×The Generics Pharmacy

Poland [edit]

Puerto Rico [edit]

South Africa [edit]

South Africa also has active Pharmaceutical Society of Southern Africa[2] and South African Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacists membership organisations.

Sweden [edit]

  • Apoteksgruppen
  • Apoteket AB
  • Apoteket Hjärtat
  • Doc Morris
  • Kronans droghandel
  • Vårdapoteket

Taiwan [edit]

Thailand [edit]

United Kingdom [edit]

Pharmacy-led chains [edit]

  • Alliance Boots — has over 2,500 stores:
    • Boots UK
    • Alliance Unichem — merged on 31 July 2006 with Boots the Chemists, to form Alliance Boots – had just under 1,000 stores
      • Moss Pharmacy — acquired by Alliance UniChem in 2005 and rebranded to "Alliance Pharmacy"
  • Co-op Pharmacy — has more than 800 branches in the UK .
  • Lloyds Pharmacy — owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE), has over 1,600 pharmacies in the UK
  • Numark — buying group of over 2,000 independently owned pharmacies in the UK
  • Rowlands Pharmacy – chain of over 500 branches throughout the UK
  • Superdrug — has over 225 in-store pharmacies in the UK

Supermarket chains [edit]

  • Asda — has more than 101 in-store pharmacies in the UK
  • Sainsbury's - Hundreds of stores have in-store pharmacies, including consulting rooms. Sainsbury's is the first supermarket in the UK to start having GP's working in their pharmacies as part of smaller doctor surgeries.[4]
  • Tesco
  • Morrisons

United States [edit]

Pharmacy chains [edit]

The table below shows the Top 25 Pharmacy chains in the United States per state ranked by the number of pharmacists in each location, according to the National Pharmacy Market Summary done by SK&A 2010.[5]

Top 25 Pharmacy chains ranked by the number of stores

Rank Pharmacy Chains City State Pharmacists Stores
1 Walgreens Corporate Office Deerfield IL 10,578 8,500
2 CVS Corporation Woonsocket RI 10,151 6,288
3 Walmart Stores Inc Bentonville AR 6,358 3,700
4 Rite Aid Corporation Camp Hill PA 5,523 4,608
5 Kroger Company Cincinnati OH 1,866 1,156
6 Target Corp Minneapolis MN 1,436 1,011
7 Kaiser Permanente (HMO) Oakland CA 1,298 290
8 Sears Holdings Corporation Hoffman Estates IL 1,169 1,002
9 Medicine Shoppe International Earth City MO 943 564
10 Supervalu Pharmacies United States 900
10 Dominick's Finer Foods Pleasanton CA 888 719
11 Publix Pharmacies Lakeland FL 835 710
12 Costco Pharmacies Issaquah WA 589 323
13 Hy-Vee Inc Wdm IA 563 202
14 Winn-Dixie Pharmacies Jacksonville FL 461 390
15 Giant Eagle Pharmacy Pittsburgh PA 403 187
16 Meijer Pharmacies Grand Rapids MI 344 167
17 Cardinal Health Inc Houston TX 320 131
18 H E B Drug Stores San Antonio TX 315 191
19 Fred's Inc Memphis TN 315 259
20 Stop & Shop Supermarket Co Quincy MA 303 235
21 Giant Food Stores Llc Carlisle PA 297 204
22 Shopko Stores Inc Green Bay WI 288 131
23 Fred Meyer Pharmacy Division Portland OR 276 127
24 Smith's Food & Drug Centers Inc Salt Lake Cty UT 268 132
25 Shoprite Supermarkets Inc Florida NY 236 153

Pharmacy chains [edit]

Pharmacies in other stores [edit]

Target and Wal-Mart feature pharmacies in nearly all of their stores.

In addition, in many areas supermarkets have pharmacies. Some of these include:

Vatican City [edit]

Vietnam [edit]

Pharmacy chains [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ German entrepreneur fights regulations to build pharmacy chain - International Herald Tribune
  2. ^ "Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa". PSSA. Retrieved 2012-11-03. 
  3. ^ Alliance Boots website, as of March 2012, http://www.allianceboots.com/health-and-beauty/boots-thailand.aspx
  4. ^ BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Supermarket starts store GP pilot
  5. ^ National Pharmacy Market Summary SK&A (March 2010) http://www.skainfo.com/index.php

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