This is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores). For other uses, see Pharmacy (disambiguation). ...

Australia

Pharmacies in Australia are mostly independently-owned by pharmacists, often operated as franchises of retail brands offered by the three major pharmaceutical wholesalers in Australia — Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), Sigma Company, and Symbion Health. A minority of pharmacies are owned by friendly societies, particularly in Victoria and South Australia. Franchising (from the French for honesty[citation needed]) is a method of doing business wherein a franchisor licenses trademarks and tried and proven methods of doing business to a franchisee in exchange for a recurring payment, and usually a percentage piece of gross sales or gross profits as well as... Sigma Pharmaceuticals Limited is an Australian company with annual sales of approximately AUD$2. ... A friendly society (sometimes called a mutual society, benevolent society or fraternal organization) is a mutual association for insurance-like purposes, and often, especially in the past, serving ceremonial and friendship purposes also. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ...

API brands

• API Health Care Pharmacy
• Chemworld
• Pharmacist Advice
• Priceline Pharmacy
• Soul Pattinson — formerly owned by Washington H. Soul Pattinson & Co. Ltd
• Capital Chemists

Washington H. Soul Pattinson is an Australian public company. ...

Sigma brands

• Amcal — formerly the Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited
• Amcal Max
• Guardian

AMCAL stands for Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited, a buying group formed by Australian Pharmacists. ...

Symbion brands

• Chemmart
• Terry White

Friendly societies

• National Pharmacies

Independent Chains

• Capital Chemist[1]
• Pharmacy 777[2]
• Pharmacy Help[3]

Canada

• Abbott Pharmacy - online branch of a small Vancouver based pharmacy chain
• Axis Drugs - small chain in Ontario
• Brunet - Quebec
• Dell Pharmacy - Ontario
• Drugstore Pharmacy - Loblaw Companies Limited
• Familiprix - Quebec
• Guardian
• Herbie's for Drug and Food
• I.D.A.
• Jean Coutu - Quebec and Eastern Ontario
• Lawtons, based in Atlantic Canada
• London Drugs - mainly British Columbia
• Medicine Shoppe
• Payless for Drug and Food
• Pharma Plus
• Pharmasave
• Proxim (merger of Essaim and Santé Services)
• Rexall
• Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix

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Defunct Canadian pharmacy chains

• Cunningham Drug Stores Ltd.
• United Pharmacy (merged into Pharmasave)
• Western Drug Mart (merged into Pharmasave)

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Denmark

In Denmark, all pharmacies are owned by The Danish Pharmaceutical Association and controlled by the State. There are two pharmaceutically trained groups in the Danish pharmacies: pharmaconomists and pharmacists. Every single pharmacy in Denmark belongs to one of the following five chains: The mortar and pestle is an international symbol of pharmacists and pharmacies. ...

• A-apoteket
• Apotekeren A.m.b.a.
• Apotekernes A.m.b.a.
• ditApotek A.m.b.a.
• Pharma+

Hong Kong

• Watson's
• Manning's

Watsons is the retail and manufacuring division of Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong Based Conglomerate with intrests in businesses as diverse as shipping and telecommunications. ...

Japan

• MatsumotoKiyoshi

Malaysia

• Guardians
• Watsons

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Guardian. ... A Watsons drugstore in a shopping mall in Singapore. ...

New Zealand

• Amcal
• Unichem
• Life Pharmacy (see Beauty Direct)

The majority of the above pharmacies are franchises. However, recent legislation has opened pharmacy ownership in New Zealand to individuals and companies other than pharmacists. New foreign groups are beginning to enter the market. The most established new group is Radius Pharmacy, part of the Radius Health Group. However, in order to retain 'professionalism', pharmacists must still own a fraction of the store. Indepandant pharmacies are also common in New Zealand. New Zealand has active pharmacy guild and pharmaceutical society membership. Amcal (originally an acronym for Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited) is an Australasian chain of pharmacies. ... Unichem is a New Zealand pharmacy chain/franchise. ...

Singapore

• Guardian Health & Beauty
• Watsons
• NTUC Healthcare Unity

Sweden

In Sweden, the state-owned Apoteket is the only pharmacy. Apoteket is the national pharmaceuticals retailing monopoly in Sweden. ...

United Kingdom

Pharmacy-led chains

• Alliance Boots - has 2,500 stores:
  • Boots the Chemists
  • Alliance Unichem - merged on 31 July 2006 with Boots the Chemists, to form Alliance Boots - had just under 1,000 stores
    • Moss Pharmacy - acquired by Alliance UniChem in 2005 and rebranded to "Alliance Pharmacy"
• Lloydspharmacy - owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE) - over 1,520 pharmacies in the UK
• Numark - chain of independent pharmacies with over 1,700 outlets in the UK
• Co-op Pharmacy - has more than 360 branches in the UK
• Superdrug - has over 225 in-store pharmacies in the UK

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Supermarket chains

• Asda - has more than 100 in-store pharmacies in the UK
• Sainsbury's
• Tesco

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United States

Pharmacy chains

• Arbor Drugs (acquired by CVS in 1998)
• Bartell Drugs
• Brooks Pharmacy (acquired by Rite Aid in 2007)
• CVS
• Dakota Drug
• Duane Reade
• Eckerd
• Family Pharmacy
• Good Neighbor Pharmacy
• Health Mart
• IDL Drug Stores
• Jean Coutu
• Leader Drug Stores
• Longs Drug Stores
• Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
• Ostrom's Drug & Gift
• Rexall
• Rite Aid
• Sav-on (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006)
• Snyder Drug
• United Drugs
• Valu-Rite
• Walgreens

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Pharmacies in other stores

Wal-Mart and Target feature pharmacies in nearly all of their stores. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... This article is about the United States retail company. ...

In addition, in many areas supermarkets have pharmacies. Some of these include: Supermarket produce section A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. ...

• Giant Food of Landover, Maryland
• Kroger
• Safeway Inc.
• Winn-Dixie

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Independent Pharmacies

• ZIP Drugs