Business
Terry White plans ‘transformational’ year
The Terry White Group is committed to further network expansion and the next 12 months will be “transformational” to the company, its CEO Anthony White says. The group has just …
A compelling vision
Crafting a compelling service vision statement … avoiding the fluff and bland motherhood statements A progressive, medium sized, neighbourhood shopping centre, branded pharmacy recently shunned its brand’s mission statement as …
TWC to merge with Chemmart
Chemmart and Terry White Group are set to merge. EBOS Group Limited has announced it has entered into an agreement to merge its Chemmart business with the Terry White Group businesses to …
Pharmacy owners tackling decade-high rents
Get back to the basics or risk losing your business, warns retail leasing specialist Pharmacy rents are at their highest in a decade and even outstripping the Consumer Price Index …
5 questions for a successful pharmacy purchase
Business class: Buying a pharmacy is no small feat! There are many factors to consider and hopefully the investment will provide financial and other rewards for many years, says Natalie …
Why disruption and pharmacy are a perfect marriage
Pharmacists must marry disruption rather than contemplate our destruction by its unstoppable force, says Rob Sztar. It is widely discussed that pharmacy faces an uncertain future in the face of …
Joining the right chorus
A serivce-based, forward pharmacy model is a no-brainer…or is it? asks Glenn Guilfoyle As a stakeholder in the retail pharmacy industry it has become nigh on impossible to be unaware …
Business Class: Pharmacy Market Update
An end-of-financial year overview of the factors impacting the pharmacy business sales market As we reach the end of the 2016 financial year, it is an ideal time to provide …
Pay attention to the margins
How much revenue is pharmacy ‘leaving off the table’ asks Glenn Guilfoyle A recent story featured in The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Forefront highlighted the revenue “being left on the …
Challenge the status quo
While most pharmacies offer advice, most don’t use the pharmacist to do this Instead pharmacists dispense and the retail assistant gives the advice. This has to change says business advisor …
Pfizer and Allergan deal off
Pfizer and Allergan’s merger has been scuppered by new US legislation, news agency Reuters is reporting. Pfizer has decided to terminate the agreement to acquire Allergan, a $160 billion agreement …
Busting seven employment myths
Community pharmacy owners commonly make a number of incorrect assumptions about employment legal requirements Speaking at APP2016, Tina Scrine, industrial relations manager of the Guild’s Queensland branch tried to ‘bust’ …