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The Pharmore Demise – a Wake Up Call for All of Pharmacy
One of the saddest aspects of the shakeout that has been occurring in pharmacy over the past 18 months is that a new wave of businesses who have been treading water for that period, are now starting to go under water. One such company is Pharmore, a pharmacy marketing and management service entity that has…
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Nuvola: floating a new Health & Beauty store concept into Saudi skies
Fiona Sartoretto Verna AIAPP Architect, landscape architect and painter Fiona has lived for several years in the United States where she worked on the East Coast. Married with two small daughters she travels all around the globe researching innovative concepts in retail pharmacy. She graduated with honors in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture “La Sapienza”, University…
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Rite Aid has the Rite Pharmacy Model for Australia.
It’s nice to have your own research confirmed elsewhere in the world of pharmacy. i2P have long been talking about a “whole of pharmacy” approach to delivering clinical services. Every single aspect of a community pharmacy must dovetail, one with the other so that there is a sustainable effect for the whole. Core Business =…
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Pharmacy by Design – Reinventing the Dispensary
Recently, we published some work (Pharmacy by Design) carried out by some US design researchers that involved pharmacy design basic research. The company, which is called Nurture by Steelcase, conducted research over a number of differing pharmacy settings and came up with a number of principles that held true for a pharmacy in all those…
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A Pharmacy Industry Model
Celesio is a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. It is a German company with headquarters based in Stuttgart. The proactive and preventive approach ensures that patients receive the products and support that they require for optimum care. With some 39,000 employees, Celesio…
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One Precursor Strategy For Building a New Paradigm Pharmacy
Information Technology can be very disruptive and the retailing industry is testament to that with the introduction of e-commerce. To keep up with strategies that may give a retail advantage, Westfield Corporation, well-known to many Australian pharmacy owners, has established Westfield Labs as an entity of Westfield Corporation serving as a global digital lab focused…
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The new SV pharmacy in Turks and Caicos, Caribbean: The Family choice for all the people of the island!
Editor’s Note: This month we venture into a tourist service pharmacy in one of the world’s renowned tourist destinations. Apart from special tourist needs, the pharmacy itself has to survive special environmental pressures created by sun, wind, salt and sand. These challenges and more are everyday problems that the global company, Sartoretto Verna is able…