April 3, 2017 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Adam Holyk, Alex Gourlay, Joseph Hartsig, Linda Filler, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
2017, Issue 04-03-2017, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens has named Joseph Hartsig chief merchandising officer and Adam Holyk chief marketing officer. Hartsig and Holyk report to Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay, and are part of the Walgreens Enterprise Operating Committee. Hartsig also reports to Annie Murphy, WBA’s chief customer officer, while Holyk also reports
March 10, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Adam Holyk, Alex Gourlay, Joseph Hartsig, Linda Filler, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has appointed Joseph Hartsig as chief merchandising officer and Adam Holyk as chief marketing officer for Walgreens. WBA said Friday that Hartsig and Holyk will start in their new positions on April 1. Both executives will report to WBA co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay and join the Walgreens
January 10, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Affordable Care Act, Alex Gourlay, Alpesh Patel, Bob Narveson, Brian Nightengale, Brian Unmacht, Carmen Churcott, chain drug industry, Clint Mahlman, Donald Trump, Helena Foulkes, John Fiacco, John Figueroa, Lynne Fruth, Martin Otto, Mike Eby, Mike Wysong, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Richard Brennan, Richard Willis, Robert Mauch, Steve Lawrence, Trump administration
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
“The times they are a changin’,” Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sang in 1964. It’s as true now as it was 53 years ago, especially for the chain drug industry. With the incoming administration of Donald Trump, all bets are off with health care. The Affordable Care Act appears set for demise, but no one in
January 2, 2017 by Greg Jacobson and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Brian Tanquilut, Fred's, Jefferies LLC, Rite Aid, Stefano Pessina, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walgreens-Rite Aid merger
2017, Issue 01-02-2017, Issues, News
NEW YORK — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) and Rite Aid Corp. have agreed to sell 865 Rite Aid stores and related assets to Fred’s Inc. for $950 million in cash. The deal is subject to approval by the Federal Trade Commission as well as approval and completion of the pending WBA acquisition of Rite
December 12, 2016 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, community pharmacy, pharmacy industry, Prime Therapeutics, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Featured Articles, Issue 12-12-2016, Issues, Leading Headlines, News, Pharmacy, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — In a country where health care is rife with wasted time and money, Walgreens is committed to making pharmacy more efficient. One measure of the practice’s current inefficiency, says Alex Gourlay, co-chief operating officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., is the large number of prescriptions that need additional authorization on the way
October 10, 2016 by Scot Meyer and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Charles (Cork) Walgreen III, Charles Walgreen Sr., Cork Walgreen, Walgreens
2016, Issue 10-10-2016, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Charles (Cork) Walgreen III, who led Walgreen Co. for nearly three decades, died last month at age 80. Walgreen, whose grandfather, Charles Walgreen Sr., opened the first Walgreens drug store in Chicago in 1901, was born in 1935 to Mary Ann Leslie and Charles Walgreen Jr. He would go on to become
September 29, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Get a Shot. Give a Shot, Kathy Calvin, United Nations Foundation, Walgreens
Leading Headlines, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and the United Nations Foundation have kicked off the 2016 “Get a Shot. Give a Shot” campaign. The collaboration, now in its fourth year, helps provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries. Through Aug. 31, 2017, for every flu shot or other immunization administered at Walgreens pharmacies, Healthcare Clinics or
September 26, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Charles R. Walgreen III, Charles R. Walgreen Jr., Charles R. Walgreen Sr., Walgreen Co., Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Leading Headlines, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Charles R. (Cork) Walgreen III, former chairman, president and CEO of Walgreen Co., died today at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 80. Walgreen was the grandson of company founder Charles R. Walgreen Sr. Born in Chicago on Nov. 11, 1935, to Mary Ann Leslie and Charles R. Walgreen Jr.,
September 26, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, slideshow, Steve Anderson, Trade Association CEO of the Year, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Leading Headlines, Retail News, Slideshows
Steve Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, was presented CEO Update magazine’s 2016 Trade Association CEO of the Year award. Anderson — just the third CEO to receive the honor — received the award Thursday at CEO Update’s 2016 Association Leadership Awards luncheon, held at the new Trump
September 26, 2016 by Scot Meyer and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, EnvisionRx, EnvisionRxOptions, Frank Sheehy, Jocelyn Konrad, maintenance medications, Rite Aid, Rx90, Walgreens
2016, Issue 09-26-2016, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and EnvisionRx are launching a prescription drug program that is designed to give patients with chronic conditions more flexibility in getting their maintenance medications. Called Rx90, the program allows patients to fill 90-day prescriptions at any of the nearly 8,200 Walgreens pharmacies nationwide for the same price they would pay for
September 12, 2016 by John Schultz and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, EnvisionRx, prescription drug market, Prime Therapeutics, Rite Aid, Stefano Pessina, Walgreens Boots Alliance
2016, Issue 09-12-2016, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — The partnership of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) and pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics positions the companies to capture a larger share of the prescription drug market and better compete with such players as CVS Health. St. Paul, Minn.-based Prime, the nation’s fourth-largest PBM with 22 million members, is owned by 14
August 29, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Jim DuCharme, PBM, pharmacy benefit management, Prime Therapeutics, specialty pharmacy, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance, WBA
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill., and ST. PAUL, Minn. — Walgreens has entered into a long-term alliance with Prime Therapeutics, the nation’s fourth-largest pharmacy benefit manager, that will include the creation of a joint pharmacy services company. Under the partnership, Walgreens and Prime will combine their central specialty pharmacy and mail service businesses, the companies said Monday. The
August 8, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Dick Durbin, drug abuse, medication disposal kiosks, Walgreens
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), assistant minority leader in the U.S. Senate, visited a Walgreens store in Chicago as the drug chain continued its nationwide rollout of medication disposal kiosks to help fight drug abuse and misuse. Walgreens said Durbin’s visit Monday to its 111 S. Halsted St. store marked the launch
August 3, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Give H2OPE to Others, Me to We, Todd Tillemans, Unilever, Walgreens
Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and Unilever have again teamed up for an in-store program that enables consumers to help developing communities in Africa get access to clean water. Walgreens said Wednesday that through Aug. 27, a donation will be made for customers buying select Unilever TRESemmé, Suave, Caress or AXE products at participating stores. The