Online retailer drugstore.com inc. reported a strong start to its holiday selling season. On Cyber Monday, traditionally the kickoff of the online holiday shopping season, the company reported its highest number of orders ever.
The level of flu activity across the nation dropped in November, federal health officials said earlier this month, indicating that the second wave of the swine flu pandemic in the United States has peaked.
Three longtime members of Walgreen Co.’s board of directors will step down next month, including Charles R. (Cork) Walgreen III, the grandson of the company’s founder.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has submitted a letter to the Food and Drug Administration expressing its concern that rogue Internet pharmacies are engaging in a pattern of illegal activity.
Walgreen Co. has relaunched its web site, adding a variety of healthy living and product resources, expanding the shopping tools and services it offers, and making the site easier to navigate.
For four days at the beginning of December, NACDS brought the chain drug industry briefly to life, by the simple expedient of gathering the retailer and supplier communities together in New York City for a series of business and social events.
Retail pharmacy operators and other health care providers recently were given a preview of the difficulties involved in implementing the findings of comparative effectiveness research, a science-based approach to evaluating the benefits and potential dangers of alternative forms of diagnosis and tre
More than 100 Walgreens pharmacies in central Florida have started providing H1N1 "swine flu" vaccinations. Walgreen Co. said Monday that H1N1 injectable and nasal vaccines are now being offered at drug stores in Florida’s Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Sumter and Marion counties.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has appointed Charles Bancroft as acting chief financial officer, effective January 1. The pharmaceutical company said Monday that Jean-Marc Huet, executive vice president and CFO, will leave the firm at the end of this year.
Drug store chains and other mass retailers are hoping that better days are ahead after scratching out a slim sales increase in November. Same-store sales (excluding Wal-Mart Stores Inc.) for the month were up 0.9% year over year, down from a 2.3% increase in October, according to Retail Forward.
Alberto Culver Co. plans to buy Simple Health & Beauty Ltd., a United Kingdom-based skin care supplier, from private equity fund Duke Street for 240 million pounds ($390 million). The deal is expected to close by the end of this year, Alberto Culver said Monday. The company noted that Simple is
Although many traditional retailers are expanding their offerings of organic food and beauty products, there has actually been no growth in the number of U.S. consumers that purchase these products, according to a study by market research firm TABS Group.
Procter & Gamble Co. has entered an agreement to acquire Sara Lee Corp.’s Ambi Pur air care business for 320 million euro ($470 million). P&G said Friday that, under the terms of the deal, it will purchase Ambi Pur, a leading global air care brand with presence in 80 countries, as well as several
The Coca-Cola Co. board of directors has elected Ceree Eberly and Chris Nolan as new officers. The beverage giant said Thursday that Eberly, promoted to chief people officer, succeeds Cynthia McCague, who is retiring after 28 years of service with the Coca-Cola system.
CVS Caremark Corp. has promoted Lisa Bisaccia to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. The drug store chain and pharmacy benefits manager said Friday that Bisaccia, currently vice president of human resources at the company, will begin her new role on January 1.
Nicorette, the smoking cessation gum brand of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, is launching a multimedia advertising campaign that it said is designed to speak to smokers in a "candid and honest way.
