List of pharmacies

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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

Sigma brands

Symbion brands

Friendly societies

Independent chains

Canada

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:

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

Japan

Malaysia

New Zealand

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.

Philippines

Singapore

Sweden

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

United Kingdom

Pharmacy-led chains

  • Alliance Boots — has over 2,500 stores:
  • 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

United States

Pharmacy chains

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:

Venezuela


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