Shoppers Drug Mart
| Shoppers Drug Mart Corp.
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| legal form | Public Company (Canada) |
| ISIN | CA82509W1032 |
| founding | 1962 |
| Seat |
 Canada , Toronto
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| management | Jürgen Schreiber ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 21,150 |
| sales | CAD 10.7 billion (2012) |
| Branch | pharmacy |
| Website | www.shoppersdrugmart.ca |
Shoppers Drug Mart Corp., known as Pharmaprix in Quebec , is a Canadian pharmacy and drug store chain. The company's headquarters are in Toronto .
In addition to drugs , drugstore items, medical devices and aids , Shoppers Drug Mart also offers home care services .
The company was founded in 1962 by Murray Koffler. 1983 Koffler sold the Shoppers Drug Mart to the Canadian company Imasco . In 2000 the company was sold to a consortium of investment companies (including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Bain Capital ). In 2013, Loblaw Companies took over the company for the equivalent of 9.1 billion euros. The company was temporarily listed in the S & P / TSX 60 stock index on the Toronto Stock Exchange .
See also
Web links
Commons : Shoppers Drug Mart - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company Profile , www.forbes.com, accessed on May 17, 2014
- ↑ Annual Report 2012 , accessed on May 17, 2014.
- ↑ Shoppers Drug Mart: Our History ( Memento from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Loblaw buys Shoppers Drug Mart: Canadian supermarket strikes for nine billion . Handelsblatt, July 15, 2013