List of pharmacies

This article is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores) by country.

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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.

API brands

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

Sigma brands

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

Symbion brands

• Chemmart
• Terry White

Friendly societies

• National Pharmacies

Independent chains

• Capital Chemist
• Pharmacy 777
• Pharmacy Help

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
• No Frills
• Payless for Drug and Food
• Pharmasave
• Pharma Plus
• Proxim (merger of Essaim and Santé Services)
• Rexall
• Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix
• Uniprix — Quebec

Chile

70 % marketshare following three chains:

• Farmacias Cruz Verde.largest retail pharmacy chain in Chile
• FASAwith operations in Mexico and Perú. largest retail pharmacy chain in Latin America.
• SALCO

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:

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

France

In France, pharmacies are all independently-owned by pharmacists. By law, a pharmacist can possess up to three pharmacies maximum. There are no pharmacy chains, and because pharmacists are strongly attached to the independence of their profession they are strongly opposed to the opening of the majority of pharmacy capital to non-pharmacists.

Hong Kong

• Watsons
• Manning's

Japan

• MatsumotoKiyoshi

Malaysia

• Guardian, largest retail pharmacy chain in Malaysia
• Watsons

New Zealand

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

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 their 'professionalism', pharmacists must still own a fraction of the store. Independent pharmacies are also common in New Zealand. New Zealand has active pharmacy guild and pharmaceutical society membership.

Norway

• Apotek 1
• Vitusapotek
• Alliance Apotek
• Ditt Apotek
• Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
• Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
• Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
• Northern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust

Philippines

• Mercury Drug
• South Star Drug
• Watsons

Singapore

• Guardian Health & Beauty
• NTUC Healthcare Unity
• Watsons

Sweden

In Sweden, the state-owned Apoteket is the only pharmacy.

United Kingdom

Pharmacy-led chains

• Alliance Boots — has over 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"
• Co-op Pharmacy — has more than 360 branches in the UK
• Lloydspharmacy — owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE), has over 1,600 pharmacies in the UK
• Numark — chain of independent pharmacies with over 1,700 outlets in the UK
• Superdrug — has over 225 in-store pharmacies in the UK

Supermarket chains

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

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 (acquired by Rite Aid on June 4 2007)
• Family Pharmacy
• Good Neighbor Pharmacy
• Health Mart
• IDL Drug Stores
• Kerr Drug
• Jean Coutu
• Kinney Drugs
• Leader Drug Stores
• Longs Drug Stores
• Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
• Osco Drug (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006)
• Rexall
• Rite Aid
• Sav-on (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006)
• Snyder Drug
• United Drugs
• Valu-Rite
• Walgreens

Pharmacies in other stores

Wal-Mart and Target feature pharmacies in nearly all of their stores.

In addition, in many areas supermarkets have pharmacies. Some of these include:

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

Venezuela

• Farmatodo
• Locatel
• Farmahorro
• Farmaofertas
• Ecofarma