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• Aiming to reinvent Rx, Kerr extends renewal efforts

  - 2009-01-19

  RALEIGH, N.C. -- When a group of former Thrift Drug executives bought Kerr Drug from JCPenney in 1997, neither Kerr's new management team nor the chain pharmacy industry it represented knew the North Carolina chain would soon embark on a mission to reinvent the concept of the health-based community drug...

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• Disease state conference provides multiple perspectives

  - 2008-11-24

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Kerr Drug was one of a number of retailers represented at the ECRM diabetes disease state management event held earlier this year. "The program was structured with the same quality that Charlie Bowlus [chief executive officer and founder of ECRM] and his team typically provide," asserts...

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• Kerr Drug education focuses on classes, Web site

  - 2008-10-06

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NEW YORK -- A retail pharmacy in the Carolinas has made combating diabetes one of its chief missions. Kerr Drug, which operates more than 160 stores in North Carolina and the Charleston, S.C. area, has started a number of programs to address the diabetes epidemic, which...

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• Kerr's mix covers all the bases

  - 2008-09-01

  RALEIGH, N.C. -- Economic sluggishness has not trumped hair care sales at Kerr Drug, thanks to the chain's mix of low- medium- and high-price products, says cosmetics and beauty aids category manager Kelli King. "This allows consumers multiple choices based on their budgets," she says. "We also believe that...

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• MTM slowly gains support though pilot programs, outreach

  - 2008-08-18

  Clear as mud. Two and a half years after the launch of Medicare Part D and the federally mandated concept of medication therapy management, that seems to be the general consensus among many pharmacists, pharmacy leaders, managed-care administrators, employee health benefit managers and patients themselves about just what MTM...

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• Kerr drug niche picks

  - 2008-08-04

  KERR DRUG NICHE PICKS PRODUCT MANUFACTURER CeraVe Skincare ...

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• Kerr Drug's Tony Civello and Phyllis Patterson, along with N.C. Lt. Governor Beverly Purdue, present a check for $15,000 to N.C. Special Olympics president Keith Fishburne

  - 2008-06-30

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Kerr Drug's Tony Civello and Phyllis Patterson, along with N.C. Lt. Governor Beverly Purdue, present a check for $15,000 to N.C. Olympics president Keith Fishburne. The money was raised at a Kerr charity golf event.

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• Kerr Drug

  - 2008-04-28

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An emphasis on chronic care has established Kerr Drug as a preeminent health care provider in the Carolinas. Patients have access to clinical pharmacists, who perform an array of screening and educational services for conditions ranging from diabetes to high cholesterol. The retailer also fulfills...

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• Tony Civello, Kerr Drug

  - 2008-04-21

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When chain pharmacy was staggering under the impact of federal reimbursement cuts and burdensome regulations a few years ago, it found in Kerr Drug chairman and chief executive officer Tony Civello a leader who seemed born for the role. With his clear-eyed assessment of the dangers posed...

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• Ralph Petri, Kerr Drug

  - 2008-04-21

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ralph Petri, senior vice president of pharmacy and logistics for Kerr Drug, is another veteran of Thrift Drug who came to Kerr with its purchase in 1997. Petri began with Thrift in 1968, while still in pharmacy school at Duquesne. He's no stranger to industry issues...

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