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==México==
==México==
Medicina Mexico ownes 43 licensed and regulated pharmacies in Mexico. The also own and operate over 40 websites.

*[[Farmacias Benavides]]
*[[Farmacias Benavides]]
*[[Farmacia Guadalajara]]
*[[Farmacia Guadalajara]]
*[[Farmacias del Ahorro]]
*[[Farmacias del Ahorro]]
*[[Farmacias Similares]]
*[[Farmacias Similares]]
*[[Medicina Mexico]]
*[http://www.rxmexicoonline.com]]
*[http://www.medicinamexico.com]]
*[http://www.meds.com.mx]]


==Moldova(Republic of)==
==Moldova(Republic of)==

Revision as of 08:37, 6 July 2012

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

Argentina

Australia

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 Company, and Symbion Health. A minority of pharmacies are owned by friendly societies, particularly in Victoria and South Australia.

API brands

Sigma brands

Symbion brands

Friendly societies

Chains

Brazil

This is the four biggest drugstire companies in Brazil by revenue.

Canada

Chile

70 % marketshare following three chains:

  • Farmacias Cruz Verde is the largest retail pharmacy chain in Chile.
  • FASA with operations in Mexico and Perú.
  • SALCOBRAND

China

The key players in the drugstore industry in China are:

  • PG Pharma/Medicine Shoppe China
  • China Nepstar, Shenzhen-based – China's largest
  • SuperPharm, Israeli company has about 65 stores in China, as of 2007
  • Watsons, owned HK-based Hutchison Whampoa
  • Shenzhen Accord Pharmacy Co., Ltd.
  • Shenzhen Associate Pharmacy Co., Ltd.
  • Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Company
  • Jianmin Chain Drugstore
  • Guangzhou Caizhilin Chain Drugstore
  • Liaoning Chengda Co., Ltd.
  • Hangzhou Wulin Drugstore Co., Ltd.
  • Ningbo Siming Dayaofang Co., Ltd.
  • Hunan Laobaixing Big Drugstore Chain Co., Ltd.
  • Hunan Zhilin Medicine (Group) Co., Ltd.
  • Hubei Ready Medicine Industry Co., Ltd.
  • Chongqing Tongjunge Big Drugstore Chain Co., Ltd.
  • Shanghai Huashi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.
  • Beijing Golden Elephant Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd.

Denmark

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 (Danish: farmaceuter). There are also pharmacy technicians (Danish: defektricer) who have a vocational training and unskilled laborers/workers (Danish: servicemedarbejdere) who perform manual labour.

Egypt

  • Cleopatra Pharmacies
  • El seif Pharmacies
  • Delmar we atallah pharmacies
  • El-Ezaby Pharmacies
  • Ali & Ali Pharmacies
  • Ali's image (separated from Ali&Ali )Pharmacies
  • Barsoum Pharmacies
  • Tarshouby Pharmacies
  • Tarek Mamdouh Pharmacies
  • Misr Pharmacies Co.
  • EL-BADWY pharmacy – Dr.Muhamed Abd elraheem fathi .

Germany

Germany is 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 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, 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 stronlgy 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]

Guatemala

Hong Kong

India

  • Planet Health
  • Trust Chemists & Druggists Ltd.
  • Dawakhana Shifaul Amraz
  • Hayat Pharmacy
  • Health One Pharmacy
  • 98.4 Pharmacy
  • MedPlus Pharmacy
  • Religare Wellness
  • Apollo Pharmacy
  • Guardian Life Care
  • VIVA PHARMACY
  • Mediplus Healthcare Pharmacy (I) Pvt. Ltd.
  • Wellness Forever Medicare Pvt. Ltd.
  • Mathi Medicals
  • Muthu Pharmacy
  • India Medical

==Israel==Capital Pharmacy

Kuwait

Lebanon

Japan

Macau

Malaysia

  • Watsons
  • Guardian
  • Tigas – banner group of independent pharmacies
  • Alpha Pharmacies
  • Pharmacy Bentong in Bentong, Pahang

México

Medicina Mexico ownes 43 licensed and regulated pharmacies in Mexico. The also own and operate over 40 websites.

Moldova(Republic of)

The Netherlands

New Zealand

There are 3 pharmacy distributors in New Zealand. One is ProPharma.

The majority of the above pharmacies are franchises. New foreign groups are beginning to enter the New Zealand market. Independent pharmacies are also common in New Zealand.

Recent legislation has opened pharmacy ownership in New Zealand to individuals and companies other than pharmacists. However, in order to retain professionalism, pharmacists must still own a significant percentage of the pharmacy. New Zealand also has active Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc) and Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (Inc) membership organisations.

Norway

Panama

Philippines

Specialty Pharmacies:

  • General Nutrition Centers (GNC)
  • Healthy Options

Poland

Puerto Rico

Singapore

South Africa

The majority of retail pharmacies are independently-owned pharmacies.

Recent legislative reform has opened pharmacy ownership in South Africa to individuals and companies other than pharmacists, for example supermarket chains. However, in order to retain professionalism, pharmacists must still own a significant percentage of the pharmacy and operate these pharmacies in person.

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

Sri Lanka

  • Central Pharmacy & Stores – Borella
  • MEDIGIRL
  • Harcourts (Pvt) Ltd
  • Kandy Medicals – Kandy
  • Mediccom Superdrugs- The 24 hours Pharmacy- Colombo 7

Sweden

Taiwan

Thailand

United Kingdom

Pharmacy-led chains

  • Alliance Boots — has over 2,500 stores:
    • Boots the Chemists
    • 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 .
  • Lloydspharmacy — owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE), has over 1,600 pharmacies in the UK
  • Numark — chain of independent pharmacies with over 2,000 outlets 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

  • Asda — has more than 100 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.[3]
  • Tesco
  • Morrisons

United States

Pharmacy chains

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.[4]

Top 25 Pharmacy chains ranked by the number of stores

Rank Pharmacy Chains City State Pharmacists Stores
1 CVS Corporation Woonsocket RI 10,151 6,288
2 Walgreens Corporate Office Deerfield IL 10,578 5,274
3 Walmart Stores Inc Bentonville AR 6,358 3,646
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

Pharmacies in other stores

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

Venezuela


Vietnam

References

  1. ^ German entrepreneur fights regulations to build pharmacy chain - International Herald Tribune
  2. ^ http://www.pssa.org.za/
  3. ^ BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Supermarket starts store GP pilot
  4. ^ National Pharmacy Market Summary SK&A (March 2010) http://www.skainfo.com/index.php

See also

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