Stories Collection

1. Neoteric Cosmetics Inc. has introduced Neoteric diabetic skin therapy. The product, ...
2. DETROIT - For Walgreen Co., the decision to move into the Detroit market a few years...
3. ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eckerd Corp. entered the Orlando area in the early 1960s, and it ha...
4. CDR Special Report-- The battle has been joined. In major markets across the co...
5. NEW YORK--Emson, a division of E. Mishan & Sons Inc., which has been in business...
6. BRISTOL, R.I.--Hourglass Enterprises' Flip It Hourglass Jewelry Cleaner is drawing i...
7. CHICAGO -- With consolidation in the mass market arena making many of the issues tha...
8. NEW YORK -- In the highly competitive foot care market selling an item that sets a c...
9. AZUSA, Calif. -- Physicians Formula Cosmetics, long known for its hypoallergenic and...
10. SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Optiva Corn., which was founded in 1988 and funded, in part, by...
11. STRATFORD, Conn.--As the division of Time Warner Inc. that is responsible for single...
12. TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- Bayer Corp.'s Diagnostic Division's new "no-strip" bloo...
13. WILTON, Conn. - Beiersdorf Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Germany's Beiersdorf AG, is ...
14. CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Approximately three years ago GOJO Industries Inc. successfu...
15. ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. -- Since it first entered the U.S. market in 1992, Avent Ame...
16. NEW YORK--Last year's launch of Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s Colgate Total toothpaste had...
17. MIAMI LAKES, Fla. -- With a widely recognized brand name, highly flexible merchandis...
18. POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- Nearly every household has one or more family members who exp...
19. MURRYSVILLE, Pa. -- Having successfully marketed its line of topical analgesics to t...
20. MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- With its focus on innovative foot care products, PediFix Footca...
21. LONGWOOD, Fla. -- Alongwith the growth in the photoprocessing business at retail has...
22. HUNT VALLEY, Md. -- With this year's launch of the Oil of Olay color collection, the...
23. CRANBURY, N.J. -- Two years ago the Carter Products division of Carter-Wallace Inc. ...
24. SUNTAN PRODUCTS TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales [*] Unit Volume [**] ...
25. NAIL POLISH TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales Unit Volume [*] 1. Revlon $94.6...
26. HAIR GROWTH PRODUCTS TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales [*] Unit Volume [**] 1. Rogaine...
27. FACIAL COSMETICS TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales Unit Volume [*] 1. Cover G...
28. CONTRACEPTIVES TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales Unit Volume 1. Trojan $7...
29. ACNE REMEDIES TOP BRANDS Dollar Sales [*] Unit Volume [**] 1. Clearasil ...
30. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio--A onetime gain allowed Phar-Mor Inc. to bounce back during fiscal ...
31. NOTT INGHAM, England--As in the case of many companies that are predominantly drug s...
32. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- WalMart Stores Inc.'s Tom Coughlin has been named to the board of...
33. KENILWORTH, N.J. -- The roles that pharmacists, physicians and patients play in the ...
34. Solvay S.A., the Belgium-based parent company of Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc., says i...
35. NEW YORK -- The growing popularity of temporary tattoos has added a new wrinkle to t...
36. NEW YORK--A growing number of new over-the-counter medications aimed at infants is h...
37. BOISE, Idaho -- Buoyed by a comparison with a prior-year period that was hit by stor...
38. NEW ORLEANS -- "What's new?" and "what's next?" were two questio...
39. NEW ORLEANS -- Whether they know it or not, shoppers roaming the aisles of a store a...
40. Novo Nordisk A/S has submitted a new drug application to the FDA for the approval of...
41. Monsanto Co. says it has no plans to sell or spin off its Searle drug unit, which in...
42. ST. PAUL, Minn. - Developing first aid items that have a clear point of difference f...
43. NEW YORK -- Herbal and mineral supplements are commanding increased attention in the...
44. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting at the Breakers Hotel i...
45. CHICAGO -- The top-l0-selling new consumer packaged goods (CPGs) of 1998 included th...
46. BALTIMORE -- Dairy, delicatessen and drugs. Although those three departments mi...
47. Pediatric dosing of Amoxil has been approved by the FDA. The SmithKline Beecham PLC ...
48. NEW YORK -- Merck & Co. says it won't, Glaxo Wellcome PLC says it would like to,...
49. FDA commissioner Jane Henney hopes to restructure the agency. Her proposal would dow...
50. RARITAN, N.J. - For the first time in two decades Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical has re...
51. NEW YORK - The recent tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., has high...
52. NEW ORLEANS -- For the second straight year the National Association of Chain Drug S...
53. Other retailers Current Previous close close...
54. ST. LOUIS -- Medicine Shoppe International Inc. has teamed up with the Osteoporosis ...
55. Y-Snore is complementing its drop line with an antisnoring nose spray. The company s...
56. The Food and Drug Administration has given marketing approval to Xenical, a prescrip...
57. Robert Coopman is president of Robert Coopman Consultants, whose clients include CVS...
58. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores says that regulatio...
59. Celgene Corp.'s Thalomid has received orphan drug designation from the FDA for the t...
60. NEW YORK - Options in the female contraceptive category continue to expand. Mo...
61. SKILLMAN, N.J. - Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Co.'s (J&J's) innovativ...
62. NEW ORLEANS -- For chain drug retailers and vendors planning to attend this year's N...
63. Parent companies & combo operators Current P...
64. DEERFILED, Ill. -- Walgreen Co. will begin issuing pharmacy customers one-page newsl...
65. Symtec, a division of Botanical Laboratories Inc., has introduced a line of homeopat...
66. ATLANTA -- NDC Health Information Services (NDC) has formed an alliance with PDX Inc...
67. Christina Bisanz has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the Can...
68. BALTIMORE -- Chain pharmacy executives and other health care players know they may s...
69. An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration has unanimously recommende...
70. NEW YORK - Home pregnancy test kits, ovulation kits and fertility monitors make up a...
71. NEW YORK - Whether it is new products that reflect major advances in wound care tech...
72. NEW ORLEANS--Among the information passed on to retailers and suppliers at this year...
73. Chain drug Stocks Current Previous ...
74. NEW YORK -- Burgeoning prescription drug sales continued to drive the chain drug sto...
75. Quantum Inc. is repackaging HairClean, a head lice and nit removal system. Approved ...
76. NEW YORK--Students from the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Heal...
77. Dinesh Patel has been selected as chairman, chief executive officer and president of...
78. Focus BALTIMORE -- Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Associa...
79. The Boston Consulting Group has released a study questioning the effectiveness of go...
80. David Shanker is vice president of retail services at Chicago-based Information Reso...
81. NEW YORK -- Interest in cough! cold treatments with unnecessary additives extends to...
82. NEW ORLEANS -- With more than 750 suppliers set to exhibit everything from the lates...
83. WOONSOCKET, RI. -- CVS Corp. began 1999 by posting record sales and earnings. ...
84. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is endorsing a pati...
85. King Bio Pharmaceuticals Inc. has introduced Allergies + Hayfever, a homeopathic med...
86. DUBLIN, Ohio -- Cardinal Health Inc. has formed a financial services business to ser...
87. Ralph Googooian Jr. and Halbert Baker Jr. have been appointed director of managed ca...
88. Unimed Pharmaceuticals Inc. has submitted an NDA to market Androgel for men with low...
89. Manufacturers of branded drugs are looking for what the generic drug industry calls ...
90. NEW YORK -- In a departure from the serious condom advertising of the recent past, w...
91. NEW YORK -- The burgeoning market for children's cough, cold and allergy products in...
92. NEW YORK -- Fueled by the recent purchase of Rockbottom Stores Inc. and rapid intern...
93. POWELL, Ohio -- With onetime gains countering a downturn in operating results, Drug ...
94. GREEN BAY, Wis.--Consolidation among mass market retailers continues to reshape comm...
95. Atrix Laboratories Inc. and Heritage Consumer Products LLC are shipping Eucalyptamin...
96. ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Human Genome Sciences Inc. has opened what it calls the world's fi...
97. Barry Sullivan has been selected pharmacy operations manager for the New York City-a...
98. The FDA has accepted for priority review Alza Corp.'s supplemental new drug applicat...
99. NEW ORLEANS -- Inventory management at Rite Aid Corp. and other drug chains is a cha...
100. NEW YORK -- Condom sales are increasing as suppliers reemphasize what made their pro...
101. NEW YORK - In an otherwise disappointing year for the nasal sprays/drops/inhalers ca...
102. WILLOWDALE, Ontario - Despite a shortened calendar, Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) cranked...
103. PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Genovese Drug Stores chairman and president Leonard Genovese, wh...
104. PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The lingering effects of consolidation and the effect the evolut...
105. Alpharma Inc. has received approval from the FDA to market M-Zole 3 combination pack...
106. NEW YORK -- Drug discovery scientists are the key players behind the extensive resea...
107. Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. is continuing to revamp operations at its Corona, Calif....
108. The National Wholesale Druggists' Association is moving its government affairs divis...
109. LONDON -- Retail drug sales in North America grew 11% from March 1998 through the cl...
110. NEW YORK -- A slew of new, technologically advanced condoms, virtually all boasting ...
111. NEW YORK - The appeal of herbal and mineral supplements has recast the lozenge segme...
112. NEW YORK -- Chain drug stocks continued their downward trend in April. Yet financial...
113. CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. is closing a distribution center in Nitro, W.Va., t...
114. ST. LOUIS--Walgreen Co.'s introduction of its Internet-based shopping service this f...
115. Upsher-Smith Laboratories Inc. has received FDA approval for Pentoxil (pentoxifyllin...
116. NEW YORK -- From a business that began with one product and two employees to a pharm...
117. Covance Inc. and Parexel International Corp. are merging in a stock deal valued at $...
118. The FDA says that its focus on year 2000 computer problems will be based on the supp...
119. LONDON -- The U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent over $5.8 billion on product promot...
120. PRINCETON, N.J. -- Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s antidiabetic drug Prandin is ...
121. DENISON, Texas - Horizon Pharmacies has quickly established itself as a force to be ...
122. TULSA. Olda.--Refusing to let expanding megachains monopolize the retail pharmacy bu...
123. WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Medicap Pharmacies Inc. continues to register impressive gr...
124. TORONTO -- Larry Latowsky, who was appointed president and chief executive officer o...
125. WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--Longs Drug Stores marked its 60th anniversary in 1998, and the...
126. TROY, Mich. -- Although the familiar orange and brown logo on its stores is currentl...
127. NEW YORK -- The outlook for pharmaceutical manufacturers is bullish this year. The s...
128. CHICAGO -- A new kind of drug chain started taking shape earlier this year when two ...
129. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Since 1996, when the National Association of Chain Drug Stores ac...
130. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores Education Foundatio...
131. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Being proactive is crucial to the effectiveness of the National As...
132. CDR Special Report -- The wave of consolidation that wracked and irrevocably altered...
133. NEW YORK -- As is the case with numerous health care experts and people unfamiliar w...
134. Elaina Wolzak, who manages a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pharmacy in Independence, Mo., has...
135. Merck & Co. says studies indicate that Vioxx, its experimental arthritis medicat...
136. WASHINGTON -- Managed health care plans would be required to offer independent appea...
137. WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. -- Merck & Co. has confirmed it may seek Food and Drug ...
138. Nutramax Laboratories Inc. is marketing its Cosamin DS nutraceutical in a six-unit b...
139. JACKSON, Miss. -- Compensating pharmacists for their work in counseling and educatin...
140. Roy Bussewitz, vice president of managed care and telecommunications for the Nationa...
141. SEATTLE -- While every other Internet-based drug store is careful to stress the impo...
142. CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark Stores Inc., which will soon be added to Royal Ahold's st...
143. BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Sensormatic Electronics Corp. has teamed up with a Dallas-based ...
144. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Phar-Mor Inc. has joined the growing number of drug chains ventur...
145. We can't tell you what to print or what not to. We hope you'll act responsibly, but ...
146. INDIANAPOLIS -- Bindley Western Industries Inc., one of the largest pharmaceutical w...
147. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Mark Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Lewis Dr...
148. CLEVELAND -- Marc Glassman Inc.'s chain of Marc's deep-discount drug stores in Ohio ...
149. GOUVERNEUR, N.Y.--As one of only a handful of drug chains in North America that have...
150. EDMONTON, Alberta -- In a few short years Katz Group has transformed itself from a r...
151. SALT LAKE CITY -- In its last full year before becoming part of Albertson's inc.. th...
152. WOONSOCKET, R.I. - Just as CVS Corn. has expanded its horizons over the last several...
153. NEW YORK -- The past year has seen a host of new pharmacy technology products and se...
154. NEW YORK -- In the not-so-distant past most consumers shopping for drug store mercha...
155. Karen Wolfe is account director for customer development at ACNielsen. NEW YOR...
156. WARWICK, RI. - Brooks Pharmacy has purchased 11-store City Drug and is set to make i...
157. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Improved store-level compliance with directions from chain drug o...
158. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Keeping pharmacists current with new developments in one of the fa...
159. WASHINGTON -- Sales Information that is being distributed by Medicare health mainten...
160. Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. says that Prandin, its oral antidiabetic medicatio...
161. DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Walgreens Health Initiatives (WHI), a wholly owned subsidiary of ...
162. Over two dozen health care facilities across the country are participating in a fede...
163. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is debuting a pr...
164. MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Sepracor Inc. has secured Food and Drug Administration approva...
165. Scott's Liquid Gold Inc. has begun shipping a line of diabetes skin care products to...
166. LONDON--Zeneca Group PLC has completed its purchase of Astra AB, creating one of the...
167. Three corporate officers have been named at Abbott Laboratories. They are Christophe...
168. HOUSTON -- Unlike some of its competitors in the on-line drug store business, Rx.com...
169. DEERFIELD, Ill. -- For Walgreen Co. the three months ended February 28 were another ...
170. BOHEMIA, N.Y. -- Vitamins herbal supplements and other dietary supplements from NBTY...
171. LARGO, Fla. -- Eckerd Corp. is working with Health Outcomes Management Inc. to provi...
172. ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Bausch & Lomb Inc. has introduced a contact lens made from a no...
173. ST. LOUIS -- KV Pharmaceutical Co. has completed the acquisition of its first brande...
174. MIAMI -- With 13 drug stores in greater Miami, Sedano Pharmacy and Discount Stores h...
175. SEATTLE -- Bartell Drug president and chief executive officer George Bartell describ...
176. NEWARK, Del. -- These are among the best of times for Happy Harry's Inc., say execut...
177. RICHMOND, British Columbia -- London Drugs recorded an improvement in year-to-year s...
178. BOISE, Idaho -- Pharmacy sales at Albertson's Inc. were excellent in 1998, and 1999 ...
179. WOONSOCKET, R.I. - On the strength of one of the most aggressive acquisition program...
180. NEW YORK -- Technology is affecting just about every aspect of chain drug retailing,...
181. NEW YORK -- It has been more than 30 years since the first food/drug combination sto...
182. Geri Duncan Jones is the executive director of the American Health and Beauty Aids I...
183. ZAANDAM, The Netherlands -- Royal Ahold NV has agreed to purchase the Pathmark Store...
184. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Many of the programs of the NACDS Services Corp., a for-profit su...
185. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- As the struggle to trim health care expenditures intensifies, mor...
186. WASHINGTON -- For one trade group, the controversy over granting drug makers market ...
187. The Health Care Financing Administration is scaling back efforts to collect personal...
188. TUCSON, Ariz. -- Pharmacists at Fry's Food and Drug Stores submitted the winning pro...
189. About 43% of all consumers who use the Internet turn to the technology to seek healt...
190. WASHINGTON -- A survey of states where an estimated 60% of all health maintenance or...
191. CINCINNATI -- Duramed Pharmaceuticals has received Food and Drug Administration mark...
192. The FDA has approved Novartis Consumer Health Inc.'s Lamisil cream 1% as an over-the...
193. BOCA RATON. Fla. -- Ten researchers whose work has helped save the lives of AIDS pat...
194. Jacques Messier has been named president and chief executive officer of Novopharm Lt...
195. REDMOND, Wash. -- The feeling among those who know him is that Peter Neupert doesn't...
196. CHICAGO -- Tim Ruppert has joined Information Resources Inc. as executive vice presi...
197. PENSACOLA, Fla. - Following the death of chairman and chief executive officer Richar...
198. TROY, Mich. -- Kmart Corp. has realigned its merchandising organization. Jerry...
199. Terese Herbig is vice president of retail services at Chicago-based Information Reso...