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• Accelerating population prompts continual store growth: the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region has drawn a slew of top-drawer pharmacy competitors into the drug store arena. Among them: Brooks, CVS, Kerr Drug and Walgreens

  - 2005-06-06

  For bare-knuckled competition among top pharmacy competitors, it's hard to beat the show going on in Raleigh, N.C. Selected by Money as one of the nation's most livable cities and tapped by the U.S. Census Bureau as one of the fastest-growing areas of the country with some 1.3 million...

  Tags: Brooks Pharmacy, CVS Corp., Eckerd, Kerr Drug Inc., Walgreen Co.

• Drug chains are making it happen

  - 2005-03-28

  NEW YORK -- As one of chain drug retailing's most mature categories, skin care is an area that is constantly evolving. Besides new technologies that are helping to revolutionize the category, the way retailers merchandise skin care and the products they choose to put on their shelves play a...

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• Eckerd breakup makes Brooks major Rx player

  - 2005-03-14

  WARWICK, R.I. -- While CVS is the country's leading dispenser of prescriptions, it faces intense competition in many markets. And the same deal that catapulted CVS to the top of the pharmacy industry dramatically heightened the competitiveness and geographic scope of what had been just a New England rival--Brooks...

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• Walgreens, CVS remain dominant

  - 2004-10-11

  NEW YORK -- It does not have the most stores, but Walgreen Co. has a resounding lead in top market shares. Walgreens has the No. 1 share in 40 of the 100 largest drug store markets in the country. CVS Corp., which has several hundred more stores than Walgreens,...

  Tags: Brooks Pharmacy, Computer Associates International Inc., CVS Corp., Walgreen Co.

• Best of breed, not major surgery, is strategy behind new prototype

  - 2004-09-27

  Brooks executives are well aware that if the Eckerd deal is going to work, the new owners are going to need to address critical issues in the stores. But the problem is much subtler than the stores themselves. "We have a great asset that does not require the same...

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• Rhode Island-based pharmacy gets prescription for expansion.

  - 2004-08-24

  By Andrea L. Stape, The Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 24--PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brooks Pharmacy will receive $913,514 in state tax breaks in return for building a new headquarters in East Greenwich, under an agreement approved yesterday by the...

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• Breaking down market share

  - 2002-06-17

  If increased market share in the top 10 metro markets is any barometer of a national drug chain's well-being, then Rite Aid is certainly on the road to recovery, based on 2001 market share data provided in Metro Market Studies' 2002 Distribution Guide. In fact, Rite Aid pulled off a...

  Tags: Albertson's Inc., Brooks Pharmacy, CVS Corp., Duane Reade Inc., Eckerd, K Mart, Rite Aid, Target, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Walgreen Co.

• Brooks Pharmacy Branches Out into Boston, Southern New Hampshire with Osco Buy.

  - 2002-02-26

  By Lisa Biank Fasig, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 26--WARWICK, R.I.--For the first time since it opened in 1987, Brooks Pharmacy is not banging on the door of a nearby major takeover target. Indeed, there are few...

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