{"id":10507,"date":"2017-11-01T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:05:48","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/11\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Diplomat Pharmacy<\/strong> has named Dave Loschinskey as its new CIO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>McKesson Canada<\/strong> announced the appointment of Dianne Carmichael as President Payer Markets and Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> announced it has named Kermit Crawford as President and COO.\u00a0 Mr. Crawford was most recently with Walgreens<\/strong> Boots Alliance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Smith Drug Company<\/strong> has named Joe Willaman to the newly created position of Associate VP Strategic Accounts.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Perfumania<\/strong> has received legal approval to move forward with its reorganization strategy. The company will continue to operate as a privately-held company, and will close underperforming stores.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Diplomat Pharmacy<\/strong> has acquired 8th Day Software and Consulting.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Metro Inc<\/strong>. announced a deal to acquire the Jean Coutu Group<\/strong>. The deal includes more than 400 Canadian drug stores and a distribution center.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong> has obtained approval to acquire 1,932 Rite Aid<\/strong> stores. Store changes are expected be completed by spring 2018.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> has announced the launch of YourGoodSkin, a skincare line developed to help prevent skin problems before they occur. The products will be available exclusively at select Walgreens stores and on Walgreens.com.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. announced plans to establish a \u201ctechnology center of excellence\u201d at its tech office in Chicago, IL. The number of employees will double from 300 to 600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Diplomat Pharmacy has named Dave Loschinskey as its new CIO. \u2022 McKesson Canada announced the appointment of Dianne Carmichael as President Payer Markets and Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development. \u2022 Rite Aid Corporation announced it has named Kermit Crawford as President and COO.\u00a0 Mr. Crawford was most recently with Walgreens… Continue reading DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 October 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}