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...These drugs face competition from the likes of GSK, Moderna and Eli Lilly and there is no evidence Pfizer has a particular edge, he said. “It’s a similar story across the board,” he added....
...“But there’s also a lot of wood to chop and Walgreens has really just nibbled around the edges so far.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 15 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...To prevent degradation, the vaccine needs to be stored and distributed at very cold temperatures, making it hard to administer jabs in conventional settings such as pharmacies....
...Boots’ ecommerce offering is hardly cutting edge, while its pricing has been criticised as uncompetitive....
...Amazon has not only a huge edge in physical infrastructure, as Walmart once did....
...This alone has been enough to set the industry on edge. The US pharma value chain has four links. At the top are drugmakers themselves who (for the foreseeable future) have little to fear from Amazon....
...Even as its stock rose sharply on the back of strong results, shares in US pharmacy chains, drug wholesalers and pharmacy benefit managers dropped....
...“The combination of these physical stores like Ulta and Sephora, with the growth of online has changed the economics of the business,” says Javier Escalante, an analyst at Consumer Edge Research....
...Some in the industry fear that the loss of its technological edge over larger rivals could make it hard for Theranos to compete....
...After it obscured its relationship with a specialty pharmacy group, the company’s bonds maturing in 2025 slumped by more than a fifth before rebounding....
...Oriola, a Finnish pharmaceutical wholesaler, sold its local business and gave up its warehousing space in the facility to a Russian pharmacy chain. The big question mark is GM....
...The potential for lower payouts from pharmacy benefit managers and a rotation into other sectors of the market could also dent the biotech bull run....
...Since 1872, when Shiseido was set up as Japan’s first western-style pharmacy, it has been managed by people groomed from the inside — a tradition in Japanese companies....
...The Spanish bank operates in Mexico through a network of 30,000 agents — local shops, pharmacies and post offices....
...Consumer finance in the US seems kind of a fintech wasteland: branches, more bricks-and-mortar branches, medieval technological innovation (depositing checks by phone is cutting edge), bricks, mortar, branches...
...Walgreens shares rallied after the US retail pharmacy chain began to show signs of benefiting from acquiring a chunk of Alliance Boots....
...While they account for less than 1 per cent of total prescriptions, they drain more than a quarter of pharmacy spending....
...Bricks-and-mortar pharmacies oppose the bill’s removal of a ban on internet sales of non-prescription drugs....
...new breed of deep-pocketed, creatively-minded Asian giant genuinely challenging Apple, or merely a more successful version – for now – of the likes of Sony, Sharp or Panasonic, Japan’s one-time cutting-edge...
...Target on Thursday signalled an effort to regain the edge once encapsulated by its “design for all” slogan....
...For much of the 20th century Europe was the “world’s pharmacy”, producing life-saving and life-extending medicines through companies such as Merck of Germany, which traces its roots to 1668....
...Ms Barra may be prepared to reveal her softer edges. But anyone who thinks she has abandoned her steely side would be sorely mistaken....
...“But now people can afford to pay and will go to the pharmacy to buy the best, most fancy ones.”...
...He had grown up in a small town on the eastern edge of Long Island, and was one of the only people in his high school to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
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