List of pharmacies

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

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 Pharmaceuticals, and Symbion Health. A minority of pharmacies are owned by friendly societies, particularly in Victoria and South Australia.

API brands

Pharmacist Advice
Priceline Pharmacies
Soul PattinsonÂ â€" formerly owned by Washington H. Soul Pattinson & Co. Ltd

Sigma brands

AmcalÂ â€" formerly the Allied Master Chemists of Australia Limited
Guardian Pharmacies

Symbion brands

Chemmart Pharmacy
Terry White Chemists

Chains

National Pharmacies South Australia
Pharmasave
Quality Pharmacy Group
Chemistworks

Brazil

These are the biggest drugstore companies in Brazil by revenue:

UltraFarma
Brasil Pharma
Drogarias DPSP
Pague Menos
Profarma
RaiaDrogasil

Canada

Brunet
Costco
DRUGStore Pharmacy
Familiprix
Jean Coutu
Katz Group of Companies
Lawtons
London Drugs
PharmaChoice
Pharmaprix
Pharmasave
Proxim (merger of Essaim and SantÃ© Services)
Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix
Uniprix
Value Drug Mart
Walmart

China

The key players in the drugstore industry in China are:

China Nepstar, Shenzhen-basedÂ â€" China's largest
Super-Pharm, Israeli company has about 65 stores in China, as of 2007
Watsons, owned HK-based Hutchison Whampoa

Denmark

In Denmark, all pharmacies are owned by the Association of Danish Pharmacies and controlled by the state. There are two pharmaceutically trained groups with a higher education in the Danish pharmacies: pharmaconomists (Danish: 'farmakonomer') and pharmacists (farmaceuter). There are also pharmacy technicians (defektricer) who have a vocational training and unskilled laborers/workers (servicemedarbejdere) who perform manual labour.

Egypt

The main pharmacy chains in Egypt:

Cleopatra Pharmacies
Elezabi Pharmacies

Germany

Germany is the biggest pharmacy market in Europe with â‚¬35 billion, or $46 billion, of revenue each year. In Germany, pharmacies are known as "Apotheken". Like France, they are all independently owned by pharmacists, and like France, there are no pharmacy chains. In hindsight to consumer protection, German law bans chains of Apotheken, but generally allows self-employed pharmacists to individually operate a maximum of four outlets, all of which must be in close proximity.

Other types of retailing are strongly opposed to offer the same types of services as an Apotheke. These retailers would not have the necessary expertise to provide proper patient care and this has been upheld by the European Court of Justice in its ruling of May 2009. Traditionally in Germany, drugs were not discountable and the entire trade with pharmaceuticals was limited to the single channel of the Apotheke. In 2004 however, the health care reform law GMG allowed free pricing of OTC- products. This led to a significant decrease of OTC- prices in competitive areas. Internet and mail-order purchasing of drugs has also become an alternative, however it only accounts for about 5% of German pharmaceutical trade.

Online pharmacy DocMorris has been introducing the first, licence based chain pharmacy model in Germany in 2007 (as opposed to the current Independent pharmacy model). Alongside their brand, they are offering standardized services in their pharmacies, whilst they do not operate or own them. They also offer discounted OTC products. Besides this model, German pharmacies are for the most part organized in wholesaler- based cooperations like LINDA, gesund leben-ApothekenÂ (de), meine apothekeÂ (de) or vivesco. These cooperations are offering discounts in purchasing and support e.g. in Marketing.

DocMorris CEO Ralf DÃ¤inghaus claims the German system to be monopolistic because government sets the profit margin that drug makers, wholesalers and pharmacists are allowed to make, resulting in strongly invariant price levels at all traditional outlets- even though most of the 21,500 pharmacies in the country are run independently. Traditional German pharmacists respond that a strategy of generally discounting pharmaceuticals may push people to use more drugs and would be against the general principles of health and customer protection.

Hong Kong

Mannings
Watson's

India

India's retail pharmacy sector is beginning to consolidate into a group of large players, many of them owned by larger health groups and/or franchised.

Apollo Pharmacy (division of Apollo Hospitals)
Dial for Health
Fortis Healthworld
Guardian Pharmacy
LifeKen
Life Spring
Medplus Health Services
Reliance Health and Pharma
Dhanwantary Medicare
Thulasi Pharmacies
Trust Chemists & Druggists
Viva Pharmacy
98.4 Pharmacy

Ireland

HealthWest Community Pharmacy
Lloyds Pharmacy

Israel

Super-Pharm

Jordan

Orange Pharmacy

Macau

Watson's

Malaysia

Alpha Pharmacy
Alpro Pharmacy
Apex Pharmacy
Caring Pharmacy
Constant Pharmacy
Cosway Pharmacy
D'Apotic Pharmacy
Guardian Pharmacy
Healthlane Pharmacy
Lovy Pharmacy
Multicare Pharmacy
Vitacare
Watsons

Mexico

Farmacias del Ahorro
Farmacias Benavides
Medicina Mexico
Farmacias Guadalajara

Republic of Moldova

Felicia (pharmacy)

Netherlands

Pharmacies in the Netherlands are mostly independently owned by pharmacists. In 2011, 31% of all pharmacies were part of one of the following chains:

Alliance Healthcare
BENU
D.I.O. Drogist
Medsen Apotheek
Mediq
SAL apotheken
Thio Pharma
Zorggroep Almere

New Zealand

Amcal
Unichem
Countdown Pharmacy

Norway

Alliance Apotek
Alliance Boots (Opened in 2008 under the name Boots Apotek, using the same logos and products as in the UK)
Apotek 1
Ditt Apotek
Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
Northern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
Vitusapotek
Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust

Pakistan

Al-Jalil Medical Hall
Al-Chemists Pharmacy
Clinix + Pharmacy
D Watson Chemists
Fazal Din Plus Pharmacy
Guardian Pharmacy
Khawaja Brothers Pharmacy
Khawaja Sons (Wholesale Dealer)
Muhammadi Medical Store
Shifa Pharmacy and Labs
Time Medicose
Jaffar Medical Store
Tayyab Medical Store
Health Partner Pharmacy
HEALTHMART Pharmacy
Hill Side Pharmacy

Peru

BTL
Fasa
Mifarma

Philippines

Generika Drugstore
Mercury Drug
South Star Drug
Watsons
Citidrug 2-in-1 Drugstore
Rose Pharmacy Inc.
The Generics Pharmacy
[(Biochemist Drug, Inc.)]
Farmacia ni Dok

Poland

Super-Pharm
Apteki Dbam o Zdrowie

Puerto Rico

Farmacias El Amal

Singapore

Pharmacies in Singapore:

Watsons Pharmacy
NTUC Unity Pharmacy
Guardian Pharmacy (mannings)
NHG (National Healthcare Group) Pharmacy (Mostly found in neighborhood Polyclinics managed by NHG)

Sweden

Apoteket
Apoteket HjÃ¤rtat
Apoteksgruppen
Doc Morris
Kronans droghandel
VÃ¥rdapoteket

Taiwan

Greenspot taiwan
Watsons

Thailand

Alliance Boots - 203 stores
eXta health and Beauty
GNC - 30 stores
Watsons - 180 stores

United Kingdom

Pharmacy-led chains

Alliance BootsÂ â€" has over 2,500 stores:
- Alliance UnichemÂ â€" merged on 31 July 2006 with Boots the Chemists, to form Alliance BootsÂ â€" had just under 1,000 stores
  - Moss PharmacyÂ â€" acquired by Alliance UniChem in 2005 and rebranded to "Alliance Pharmacy"
- Boots UK
Co-op PharmacyÂ â€" has more than 800 branches in the UK.
Gordons Chemist has 60 branches in UK.
Lloyds PharmacyÂ â€" owned by Celesio (until 2003 named GEHE), has over 1,600 pharmacies in the UK
NumarkÂ â€" buying group of over 2,000 independently owned pharmacies in the UK
Rowlands PharmacyÂ â€" chain of over 500 branches throughout the UK
SuperdrugÂ â€" has over 225 in-store pharmacies in the UK
Nature's Best PharmacyÂ â€" is a subsidiary of Merck & Co.
Medicx Pharmacy has over 20 pharmacies across the UK
Med Express an online pharmacy in the UK run by qualified doctors and registered by the GMC
NationWide Pharmacies a leading UK online pharmacy and provider of NHS private prescription treatments.

Supermarket chains

AsdaÂ â€" has more than 101 in-store pharmacies in the UK
Morrisons
Sainsbury'sÂ â€" Hundreds of stores have in-store pharmacies, including consulting rooms. Sainsbury's is the first supermarket in the UK to start having GP's working in their pharmacies as part of smaller doctor surgeries.
Tesco

United States

Although not a pharmacy chain, many of the fairly ubiquitous Costco stores include a pharmacy and - in California at least - the pharmacy is available to non-members. Their prices are likely to be among the lowest

Ranking

The table below shows the Top 25 Pharmacy chains in the United States per state ranked by the number of pharmacists per chain, according to the National Pharmacy Market Summary done by SK&A 2010.