Multiples
1The health and beauty giant has announced that it plans to open 25 new stores this year, a move that will create “approximately 600 new jobs”.
6Well Pharmacy has revealed that it suffered millions in losses over a “challenging” year, while its wholesaling arm was able to turn a £2.5 million profit.
1Four Morrisons pharmacies across England are set to close their doors for good, the supermarket has announced.
4Supermarket giant Morrisons has revealed plans to close four of its pharmacies following a "wide-ranging review".
0Fresh liquidation accounts have revealed that Lloydspharmacy has paid half a million pounds to former owners, but that payments for “non-preferential” creditors are “wholly dependent” on a successful tax appeal.
0Retail trade union Usdaw has revealed that Tesco workers, including pharmacy staff directly employed by the supermarket, will see a 5.2% increase in hourly pay from this month.
9Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has “entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired” by private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
2Jhoots Chemist’s accounts for 2024 have revealed an almost £2 million year-on-year dip in shareholder funds – as debts to creditors increase more than £2m.
5The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy.
0Boots has issued a recall for 120,000 packs of its own brand paracetamol due to “incorrect packaging” and called on customers to return the product for a “full refund”.
1Asda has launched the “UK’s first” adult earache service at over 220 of its pharmacies in England to “[reduce] the burden on NHS services”, with same day appointments available and priced at £25.
0The UK's largest digital pharmacy has launched an “app-based answer to the government’s 10-year plan”, combining pharmacy, online GP consultations, NHS, vet, health and wellbeing services into a “single platform”.
0An employment tribunal has ordered Day Lewis to pay a pharmacy assistant almost £20,000 for dismissing her after “period of sickness absence”.
0The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has announced it is in the “final stages” of “preparing” the case for those who made a complaint under the Boots Pension scheme’s dispute resolution procedure, which is set to “be submitted at the end of the month”.
1Tesco has confirmed it will close “a small number” of its in-store pharmacies “later this year”, C+D can exclusively reveal.
0Some 94% of pharmacists and pharmacist trainees employed at Superdrug have voted in favour of the PDA representing employees at the company.
0Tesco has partnered with the British Heart Foundation to launch a free NHS blood pressure check for shoppers to “help detect cases of undiagnosed high blood pressure and prevent cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes”.
0A pharmacist who sexually assaulted two patients in pharmacy consultation rooms will serve two years in prison.
0The pharmacy union has revealed that it has agreed an increase of up to 14% in the pay rate for trainee pharmacists with Boots.
1While branch numbers at some multiples have remained steady over the last year, C+D analysis has found that others, notably Boots, have taken a hit.