Television personality and cookbook author Chef Pepin has become the celebrity spokesman for Navarro Discount Pharmacy. The Miami-area drug store chain said Friday that adding Chef Pepin as a celebrity spokesman is part of its overall marketing campaign and expansion strategy.
For the eighth straight year, pharmacists have placed in the top three in Gallup’s Honesty and Ethics survey, which gauges the public’s trust of professionals in a range of disciplines across industries.
Rite Aid Corp. plans to continue offering flu shots at more than 3,000 of its pharmacies in recognition of National Influenza Vaccination Week.
CVS Caremark Corp. has been temporarily blocked from hiring former Walmart executive Hank Mullany as president of CVS/pharmacy.
CVS Caremark Corp. has named former Walmart executive Hank Mullany president of CVS/pharmacy, but the appointment is being challenged in court.
Cardinal Health Inc. has named John Fiacco as vice president of its Medicine Shoppe International (MSI) and Medicap Pharmacy franchise division. The former CVS Caremark executive, who has been with Medicine Shoppe since 2000, is slated to assume his new position on January 1.
As Medicare recipients continue to explore the various prescription drug plans (PDPs) available, community pharmacies across the country are helping beneficiaries understand their options.
Three years after a federal judge blocked the government from lowering Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement rates, the issue will be officially over this month.
Cardinal Health Inc. plans to acquire Kinray Inc. for $1.3 billion and has completed a $470 million purchase of Yong Yu, the largest drug importer in China. The Kinray deal will significantly expand the No.
Speakers at the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy’s recent forum here weighed in on whether the recent shift in the Canadian pharmacy paradigm was merely a tremor or a seismic shift.
Novartis Consumer Health Inc. has partnered with the Emerson Group to bolster marketing and promotional support for over a dozen of its niche over-the-counter medicine and personal care brands.
Kroger Co. and Safeway Inc. are participating in a new UnitedHealthcare Medicare Part D plan offering drugs for as little as $2 per prescription and promising to save members hundreds of dollars next year. The introduction follows the debut of a plan by Walmart and Humana Inc.
An increased number of shoppers are turning to the Internet this holiday season, and initial reports are that they are responding to promotions and spending more.
A proposed class-action lawsuit claiming Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) collected excessive funds from franchisees is baseless, the company says.
Steven Collis has been named president and chief operating officer of AmerisourceBergen Corp. The 49-year-old Collis had been executive vice president of the drug distributor and president of AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. (ABDC), the company’s largest subsidiary.
A CVS Caremark Corp.-sponsored study found that patients who face co-pays of $50 are almost four times more likely to abandon prescriptions at a pharmacy than those paying $10.
