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Revco, originally known as Registered Vitamin Company, [2] was founded in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, by Sidney Dworkin and Bernie Shulman. Dworkin led Revco until 1986 as CEO, and then he served as chairman until 1987. Up to 1983, Revco grew tremendously; the chain had over 2,200 stores and over $2.2 billion (~$5.66 billion in 2023) in sales.
Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Inc., frequently referred to as Navarro is a pharmacy chain, photo service, and pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Health in September 2014 and is operated as a separate brand and business of CVS, headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company mainly operates in Miami-Dade ...
MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) that provides retail clinic services. [2] MinuteClinic was initially started as QuickMedx [3] by Dr. Douglas Smith and his patient Rick Krieger, along with Stephen Pontius in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MinuteClinic has more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. ( WBA) is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, [2] which owns the retail pharmacy chains Walgreens in the US and Boots in the UK, as well as several pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution companies. The company was formed on December 31, 2014, after Walgreens ...
A large number of acquisitions brought the chain to the state of Michigan in 1984. These were of Grand Rapids, Michigan -based Muir Drug and Remes Drug, along with Lippert Pharmacy of Lowell and Herrlich Drug of Flint ; [19] [20] one year later, Rite Aid opened stores in Lansing, Michigan through the acquisition of State Vitamin. [21]
FamilyMart in Kaesong, North Korea. At the end of May 2012, the number of operating FamilyMart stores had reached 7,271. In June 2012, FamilyMart of South Korea, which was being run by FamilyMart Corporation and BGF Retail, was renamed and converted to 'CU' (short for "Convenience for You") under ownership of BGF Retail after an order coming from BGF Retail that required FamilyMart to leave ...
Best Buy. [1] Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983. Best ...
Longs Drugs is an American chain owned by parent company CVS Health with approximately 70 drugstores throughout the state of Hawaii and formerly in the Continental US.. Before being acquired by parent company CVS Health in 2008, it was a chain of over 500 stores, located primarily on the West Coast of the United States.