Medco
| Medco Health Solutions Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2003 |
| Seat | Franklin Lakes , New Jersey |
| management | David Snow Jr. ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ), Kenneth O. Klepper ( COO ) |
| Number of employees | 22,000 |
| sales | $ 59.8 billion |
| Branch | health |
| Website | www.medco.com |
Medco Health Solutions was in health care operations, (pharmacy benefit management) company headquartered in Franklin Lakes in New Jersey , listed on the S & P 500 , ISIN US58405U1025. It employs over 23,000 people and is represented in all western countries. Medco Health Solutions was founded in 2003. In 2009 the company had sales of US $ 59.8 billion and was ranked 35th on the Fortune Global 500 .
On April 8th, 2008 Medco Health Solutions announced the takeover of 100% of the shares in the mail order pharmacy Europa Apotheek in Venlo .
The German online pharmacy shop-apotheke.com has been part of the Medco Group since February 2010 .
In 2012, both Europa Apotheek and shop-apotheke.com were bought back by the management and have since been back in the hands of the founders.
In June 2010, Medco and Celesio AG founded the Medco Celesio BV joint venture, based in Amsterdam, which is owned equally by the two parent companies. The joint venture combines the strengths of Medco and Celesio and focuses on innovative, cross-sector pharmaceutical services for patients with chronic or complex diseases.
Medco operates on the German market under the “shop-apotheke.com” brand operated by Europa Apotheek Venlo BV. This online pharmacy was founded in 2002 by the Cologne pharmacist Peter Weber and taken over in 2010.
In 2012 there was a merger between Medco and Express Scripts Holding Co., which was completed in August 2012.
Web links
- Website of Medco Health Solutions (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medco: Company overview ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Medco takes over Europa Apotheek
- ↑ Medco takes over Shop-apotheke.com
- ↑ Management buys back Europa Apotheek. December 5, 2012, accessed July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Finanznachrichten.de : Celesio and Medco agree on a Europe-wide joint venture: better quality drug therapy and lower health costs
- ↑ shop-apotheke.com: Imprint
