List of pharmacies
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This is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores).
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[edit] 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.
[edit] API brands
- API Health Care Pharmacy
- Chemworld
- Pharmacist Advice
- Priceline Pharmacy
- Soul Pattinson — formerly owned by Washington H. Soul Pattinson & Co. Ltd
[edit] Sigma brands
- Amcal — formerly the Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited
- Amcal Max
- Guardian
[edit] Symbion brands
- Chemmart
- Terry White Chemists
[edit] Friendly societies
- National Pharmacies
[edit] Canada
- Abbott Pharmacy - online branch of a small Vancouver based pharmacy chain
- Axis Drugs - small chain in Ontario
- Brunet - Quebec
- Canada Discount Rx, an online pharmacy division of McKnights Pharmacy in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Canada Pharmacy, Canada's largest mail order pharmacy
- Dell Pharmacy - Ontario
- Drugstore Pharmacy - Loblaw Companies Limited
- Familiprix - Quebec
- Guardian
- Herbie's for Drug and Food
- I.D.A.
- Jean Coutu - Quebec and Eastern Ontario
- Lawtons, based in Atlantic Canada
- London Drugs - mainly British Columbia
- Medicine Shoppe
- Payless for Drug and Food
- Pharma Plus
- Pharmasave
- Proxim (merger of Essaim and Santé Services)
- Rexall
- Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix
[edit] Defunct pharmacy chains
- Cunningham Drug Stores Ltd.
- United Pharmacy (merged into Pharmasave)
- Western Drug Mart (merged into Pharmasave)
[edit] France
- Drugstore Publicis
[edit] Hong Kong
- Watson's
- Manning's
[edit] Japan
- Matsumotokiyoshi
[edit] Malaysia
[edit] New Zealand
The majority of the above pharmacies are franchises. However, recent legislation has opened pharmacy ownership in New Zealand to individuals and companies other than pharmacists. New foreign groups are beginning to enter the market. The most established new group is Radius Pharmacy, part of the Radius Health Group. However, in order to retain 'professionalism', pharmacists must still own a fraction of the store. Indepandant pharmacies are also common in New Zealand. New Zealand has active pharmacy guild and pharmaceutical society membership.
[edit] Sweden
In Sweden, the state-owned Apoteket is the only pharmacy.
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] Pharmacy-led chains
- Alliance Boots - has 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"
- Lloydspharmacy - owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE) - over 1,520 pharmacies in the UK
- Numark - chain of independent pharmacies with over 1,700 outlets in the UK
- Co-op Pharmacy - has more than 360 branches in the UK
- Superdrug - has over 225 in-store pharmacies in the UK
[edit] Supermarket chains
- Asda - has more than 100 in-store pharmacies in the UK
- Sainsbury's
- Tesco
[edit] United States
- Bartell Drugs
- CVS
- Dakota Drug
- Duane Reade
- Eckerd
- Family Pharmacy
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy
- IDL Drug Stores
- Jean Coutu
- Leader Drug Stores
- Longs Drug Stores
- Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
- Rexall
- Rite Aid
- Sav-on (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006)
- Snyder Drug
- United Drugs
- Valu-Rite
- Walgreens
- Winn-Dixie
In addition, Wal-Mart features pharmacies in nearly all of its stores, and in many areas supermarkets have pharmacies as well.
