{"id":9781,"date":"2017-06-23T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:12:16","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/06\/datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Albertsons LLC<\/strong> announced that it hired Karl Varsanyi as Group VP Product Management and User Experience, and Ramiya Iyer as Group VP IT Digital and Marketing\/Merchandising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>AmerisourceBergen Corporation<\/strong> announced that with its new organizational structure, Robert Mauch will lead the pharmaceutical distribution and strategic global sourcing group, and James Cleary will head the company\u2019s global commercialization services and pet health division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Smith Drug Company <\/strong>announced the promotion of Kyle Waltz to VP Corporate Controller. Lena Jouran will take over the role of Divisional VP Finance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. announced its Senior VP Communications and International Affairs, Yves Romestan, will be departing the company. Laura Vergani will become VP International and Divisional Communications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Fred&#8217;s Inc<\/strong>. announced it has secured additional financing to meet its obligation of acquiring as many as 1,200 Rite Aid stores that are expected to be divested as part of the company\u2019s merger with Walgreens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Albertsons LLC<\/strong> announced the acquisition of <strong>MedCart Specialty Pharmacy<\/strong>, a provider of specialty care services in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Rx Drug Mart<\/strong> is the buyer of 27 <strong>Rexall Pharmacy<\/strong> locations being divested by<strong> McKesson Canada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Florida Hospital Express Care at Walgreens<\/strong> retail healthcare clinics are now open in 15 Walgreens locations throughout the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Bluemercury Inc<\/strong>. plans to open 40 stores in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>CVS Health<\/strong> announced it has opened its first store in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Albertsons LLC announced that it hired Karl Varsanyi as Group VP Product Management and User Experience, and Ramiya Iyer as Group VP IT Digital and Marketing\/Merchandising. \u2022 AmerisourceBergen Corporation announced that with its new organizational structure, Robert Mauch will lead the pharmaceutical distribution and strategic global sourcing group, and James Cleary will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/06\/datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 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-9781","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\/9781","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=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}