{"id":5857,"date":"2015-12-22T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2015-12-22T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T08:50:00","slug":"industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/12\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AmerisourceBergen<\/strong> announced that Steven Collis, President and CEO, will also assume the title of Chairman following the retirement of Chairman Richard Gozon in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birchbox<\/strong> has hired Philippe Pinatel as its new President and COO, \u00a0Douglas Simpson as President of Retail, Benjamin Fay as VP of Retail Development and Customer Experience, and Andrew Lande-Shannon as Design Director of Offline Retail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> named George Riedl as Senior VP, President Health and Wellness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>CVS Health <\/strong>and <strong>Target Corp.<\/strong> recently announced that CVS Health has completed the acquisition of Target&#8217;s pharmacy and clinic businesses. CVS Health acquired Target&#8217;s 1,672 pharmacies across 47 states and will operate them through a store-within-a-store format, branded as CVS\/pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fruth Pharmacy<\/strong> opened a new location in Charleston, WV on Nov. 16. The space was previously occupied by <strong>Highland Pharmacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates AmerisourceBergen announced that Steven Collis, President and CEO, will also assume the title of Chairman following the retirement of Chairman Richard Gozon in March 2016. Birchbox has hired Philippe Pinatel as its new President and COO, \u00a0Douglas Simpson as President of Retail, Benjamin Fay as VP of Retail Development and Customer Experience, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/12\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-december-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 December 2015<\/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-5857","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\/5857","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=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}