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• Clarification

  - 2009-07-20

  CLARIFICATION: In the June 29 issue of Drug Store News, the story "Boiron pushes homeopathy with flu relief" (page 32) stated that Boiron planned to spend $6.6 million on ads for its pediatric cough-cold portfolio. Boiron actually has doubled last year's consumer ad commitment for the coming season...

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• DrSN adds new weekly OTC e-newsletter to its portfolio

  - 2009-06-29

  New York -- Following the success of its weekly Drug Fix electronic newsletter, Drug Store News will launch a new e-newsletter featuring in-depth analysis of the over-the-counter category. Each week the Over-the-Counterintelligence Report will chronicle the top stories affecting the OTC category. Written by senior editor Michael...

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• 2009 hot products editor's picks

  - 2009-06-29

  On the following pages, you'll find a list of 30 products--all recently launched or about to be launched--that caught the attention of Drug Store News' editors in a big way in the past year. It's a short list of products our editors believe will really drive incremental growth...

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• The new buzz word in intimacy health: Tim Cleary, Durex Consumer Products

  - 2009-06-29

  There's still one more incremental piece that could be added to the burgeoning intimacy health category--personal massagers. Intimacy health as a whole--not including supplements--is up 10.9%, reaching $402.2 million in sales across food, drug and mass minus Walmart, according to Information Resources Inc. Within that, sexual enhancement...

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• DrSN offers guide to Rx's role

  - 2009-06-29

  NEW YORK -- Pharmacy advocates hoping to educate lawmakers about the role that retail pharmacy can play in healthcare reform now will have a leave-behind supplied by Drug Store News and underwritten by PDX and Rx.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Community Pharmacy & Public Health: Profiles in Reform"...

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• DrSN gets all a 'Twitter'

  - 2009-05-25

  NEW YORK -- Drug Store News has found a new way to reach readers, 140 characters at a time. Since its inception as a side project in San Francisco in August 2006, Twitter has attracted members from around the world who "tweet" several times a day, posting...

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• Drug store news party

  - 2009-05-25

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John Dowers of ECRM, Dario Margve and Danette Dabb of Brynwood Partners, David Talbert of Prestige Brands and Deborah and Larry Ammons of Wakefem Food Corp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Julianne Painter of Kinney Drugs, Laurie and Mike McBride of Upsher-Smith, and June and George...

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• DME drives traffic, builds shopper base for Ohio chain

  - 2009-04-20

  Discount Drug Mart celebrated its 40-year anniversary in February, and now fields 68 stores in more than 20 counties across Ohio, including Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. The 25,000-sq.-ft, stores stock more than 40,000 items, ranging from a full service pharmacy to an extended home health care department. ...

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• 6th Drug Stores News Diabetes Roundtable

  - 2009-04-20

  Following is an excerpt from Drug Store News' annual Diabetes Roundtable. For the complete text, see Drug Store News, March 6, 2009. DAVE WENDLAND, HAMACHER: What is Takeda doing, to reach out to families dealing with diabetes? DION REIMER, TAKEDA: We're really aggressive in trying to...

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• Small player takes over big spot: Jim Koch, Boston Beer Co

  - 2009-04-20

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Boston Beer Co., with less than 1% of total U.S. beer sales, now holds the spot as the nation's biggest brewery, a situation its founder and brewer Jim Koch calls "sad and weird." He's bullish on the future of craft beer, as he recently told...

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