CVS/pharmacy has launched a promotion in which loyalty card customers earn free gift cards by purchasing designated items. The drug store chain said Monday that under the promotion, which began Oct. 16 and runs to Dec.
Walgreen Co. will remain in the Express Scripts Inc. pharmacy network for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and has made an offer to the pharmacy benefit manager to continue serving the Department of Defense’s Tricare pharmacy program in 2012.
Eli Lilly and Co. is promoting a trio of senior executives with the announcement that longtime company Bryce Carmine and Frank Deane plan to retire. The pharmaceutical company said this week that Carmine and Deane are slated to retire as of Dec. 31.
Rite Aid Corp.’s wellness+ customer rewards program has received its own reward: the Shopper Technology Institute’s 2011 LEADER Award. Rite Aid said Friday that it won the award, sponsored by IBM, in the loyalty category.
Tom Ryan, former chairman and chief executive officer of CVS Caremark Corp., has joined the Operating Partner Program at private equity firm Advent International.
Energizer Holdings Inc. has expanded its lineup of products aimed at keeping consumers’ portable devices powered up and has added a home lighting line to its portfolio.
Next spring, Beiersdorf AG will have a new chief executive officer at the helm. The supervisory board of the skin care and cosmetics manufacturer has named Stefan Heidenreich as the company’s next chief executive officer. Plans call for Heidenreich to take the reins as CEO on April 26, 2012.
Johnson & Johnson has made changes to its customer development organization in an effort to simplify it, streamline processes, speed execution and enable faster decision-making.
Questions about the U.S. health care system and community pharmacy’s place in it are as numerous as ever, despite the enactment of the health care reform law.
As it continues to ramp up its health care services, Walgreen Co. has hired two new executives for its pharmacy, health and wellness division. Walgreens said Tuesday that it has named Dr.
It is almost six years since the beginning of Medicare Part D. But now, the development of a system to use quality-based payments for quality-based patient outcomes is coming closer to reality. Imagine a Medicare Advantage Plan that includes drug benefits (MAPD) with 1 million members.
Amid a difficult economic environment, independent community pharmacies are growing their array of services to better meet patients’ needs and lower their health care costs, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association’s 2011 NCPA Digest.
Jamie Egasti, former chief executive officer of The Folgers Coffee Co. and president of Procter & Gamble Co.’s global snacks and coffee unit, has joined Catalina Marketing Corp. as CEO.
Mike Bloom has left CVS Caremark Corp. to become president and chief operating officer of Family Dollar Stores Inc. Bloom had been executive vice president of merchandising and supply chain at CVS Caremark.
Walgreen Co. has restructured its marketing and merchandising staff in a bid to foster a more integrated approach to the two disciplines and intensify the drug chain’s customer focus. A major component of the realignment was the elimination of the chief marketing officer’s role.
Leading consumer groups have warned of the “potential for significant consumer harm” from a proposed merger of Express Scripts Inc. and Medco Health Solutions Inc.
