Turnover of Farmarcas networks grows 47.4%

Sao Paulo-the networks of pharmacies associated with Farmarcas had, in October of this year, up 47.41% in turnover, year-to-year comparison.
With the expansion, the administrator of associative networks, which currently brings together eight groups of retail pharmacist, reached in a billing month plus about R$ 86,100,000, while in the same month of 2015 the amount spun around the R$ 58,400,000. According to the company, the result came about largely due to the increase in the number of pharmacies linked to networks of the group but was also impacted by high individual drugstores.
Popular pharmacies
Considering only the so-called '' popular pharmacies '' network, the advance billing for the period was even more expressive, and closed at 74%. The net sales value of all these shops was 64,800,000 R$ in October this year, front R$ 37,200,000 in October 2015. Of the eight groups linked to Farmarcas, are considered popular Ultra Popular networks pharmacies, Super Popular and Popular Maxi.
About the amount of drug stores associated with the popular networks, the high was also significant in October 2015 compared with October of this year, and the number of stores increased from 232 to 376 in the range (high of 61.5%).
To the Chief Operating Officer of Farmarcas, Angelo Vieira, the trend for the coming months is that the sharp growth to continue. "We are optimizing our further actions and working so that customers can pick up in pharmacies of the networks associated with the best prices of medicines," he said.
The full executive though will be just that one of the main stakes of the Farmarcas from now on. "We have studies that show that the price is one of the decisive factors at the time of purchase of medicines", concludes.