{"id":10644,"date":"2018-06-22T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:03:32","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/06\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 CVS Health (322)<\/strong> announced its Senior VP and Chief Digital Officer, Brian Tilzer, has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc. (37)<\/strong> has named Dain Rusk as its new VP of Pharmacy. He was most recently Group VP of Pharmacy for Albertsons LLC (28)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tops Markets LLC (15)<\/strong> has promoted Matthew Hamed to the position of Director of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vitamin Shoppe Industries (67)<\/strong> has announced the resignation of Exec VP and CFO, Brenda Galgano. Succeeding her is Bill Wafford.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens <\/strong>Boots Alliance, Inc. (145)<\/strong> announced it plans to open a new office in Chicago in fall 2019 where it anticipates 1,800 people will be based.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Walgreens <\/strong>Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> has replaced General Electric in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Benzer Pharmacy<\/strong> finalized the purchase of Drug World Pharmacy<\/strong> in Amenia, NY. The acquisition marks the company\u2019s entry into the state of New York.<\/p>\n

\u2022 McKesson Corp.<\/strong> announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Medical Specialties Distributors.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Metro Inc.<\/strong> has completed the acquisition of The Jean Coutu Group Inc.<\/strong>, with 419 franchised drug stores. Under the acquisition, The Jean Coutu Group becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Metro, combining all of its pharmacy operations.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 CVS Health<\/strong> announced it is expanding the availability of its prescription delivery to now be available in all of its locations throughout the country.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Walgreens <\/strong>Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> is opening a new 7,600 square foot location in the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Thrifty White Drug Stores Inc.<\/strong> said its pharmacies will soon be powered by PrescribeWellness\u2019 technology. The company will use PrescribeWellness\u2019 platform to offer clinical services, enhance patients\u2019 experiences and offer comprehensive patient engagement and support services.<\/p>\n

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Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 297 companies in the Drug Stores and HBC Chains Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em>
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Personnel Updates \u2022 CVS Health (322) announced its Senior VP and Chief Digital Officer, Brian Tilzer, has left the company. \u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc. (37) has named Dain Rusk as its new VP of Pharmacy. He was most recently Group VP of Pharmacy for Albertsons LLC (28). \u2022 Tops Markets LLC (15) has promoted… Continue reading DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 2018<\/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-10644","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\/10644","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=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}