New brand identity is adopted by Genoa
Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company, announced an organizational rebranding as well as a name change to Genoa Healthcare.
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NACDS Annual Meeting takes shape
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has slated two top speakers for its Sunday Business Program at the 2018 NACDS Annual Meeting, which will be held April 21 to April 24 in Palm Beach, Fla. — Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Peggy Noonan and author and management educator Jim Collins.
Sam’s Club names health care exec
Sam’s Club has tapped Sean Jackson to succeed Jill Turner-Mitchael as senior vice president for consumables and health and wellness. Jackson, who joined Sam’s Club in 2009 from Linens ’n Things, most recently served as vice president for home. He began his career at May Department Stores.
Work requirements may come to Medicaid
The Trump administration has issued guidance that opens the door to work requirements for Medicaid recipients, a major change in the 50-year-old program offering a safety net for Americans living in or near poverty.
Morris is taking on a bigger role at Albertsons
Albertsons Cos. president and chief operating officer Wayne Denningham plans to retire near the end of the company’s fiscal year. Denningham was with the company more than 40 years, having started working as a clerk as a teenager.
Walgreens Connected Care Oncology gets tech patent
Walgreens has received a U.S. patent for new proprietary technology that its Walgreens community specialty pharmacists and AllianceRx Walgreens Prime’s specialty pharmacists will use to facilitate communication with and counseling of individuals prescribed oral oncology medicines.
Communications team strengthened at WBA
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has named Gulden Mesara-Dogan vice president of communications USA. In her new role at WBA, Mesara-Dogan will oversee a number of communications areas serving the enterprise and U.S. businesses and operations.
Publix pharmacies introduce Next Best Thing to Free
Publix Super Markets Inc. is offering a new prescription drug program called Next Best Thing to Free, by which it will sell 29 common generic medications for $7.50 for a three-month supply.
Former CVS exec Cheryl Mahoney passes
Longtime CVS merchandising and beauty executive Cheryl Mahoney recently passed away after a long illness. Mahoney was with the company for more than 40 years, most recently serving as vice president of retail merchandising and promotion and business development at CVS Health.
Beauty innovation only the start at CVS
The announcement by CVS Pharmacy president Helena Foulkes at last month’s National Retail Federation Big Show that the retailer will adopt standards that bring a new level of transparency to the images used to promote its beauty business caused a stir in the category and triggered a long overdue dis
Pharmacies feel the DIR fee pain
Suffice it to say, community pharmacies are getting squeezed by retroactive DIR fees. That’s what the results of a survey from the National Community Pharmacists Association said.
U.K. hair brand Nanogen hits CVS stores
Leading U.K. hair-thickening brand Nanogen is making a foray into the United States with retail distribution through CVS Pharmacy.
Rite Aid passes halfway mark in sale of stores to WBA
Rite Aid Corp. has completed the transfer of more than half of the stores it agreed to sell to Walgreens Boots Alliance last fall. Rite Aid said that, as of Feb. 8, it has transferred ownership of 1,114 stores and related assets to Walgreens Boots Alliance for cash proceeds of $2.424 billion.
Rexall makes no-Rx naloxone available chainwide
Rexall has rolled out naloxone kits to all 446 of its drug stores across Canada. The drug chain, part of McKesson Canada, said the opioid overdose antidote is available to patients without a prescription.
Product of the Year USA unveils 2018 award winners
Product of the Year USA recognized 31 products from across the consumer packaged goods market with its 2018 Product of the Year Awards.