TORONTO — Former Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) chairman, president and chief executive officer David Bloom died last month at age 73. Bloom, who started with the chain as a pharmacist in 1967, took the reins as president and CEO in 1983. He added the chairman’s title in 1986 upon the retirement of SDM founder Murray
The ranks of the chain drug industry’s giants continue to shrink — and, typically of a business that continues to grow, prosper and change, the tendency is to forget to remember what these icons accomplished. Last month, two executives who were instrumental in building chain drug retailing passed away. They were radically different, yet remarkably
TORONTO — David Bloom, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Shoppers Drug Mart, died on Sept. 25 at age 76. Funeral services for Bloom, who served as Shoppers Drug Mart’s CEO for 18 years, are being held today at Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel in Toronto. Bloom started at Shoppers Drug Mart in 1967
