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Smoked pharmacies in Chile and Benavides pharmacies In Mexico, it is a chain of pharmacies of Chilean origin, being larger in its country with Cruz Verde and Salcobrand. The pharmacy has medications, natural products, nutritional supplements, beauty and hygiene and personal care articles.
It was founded on Ahumada Street in Santiago de Chile in 1968, and during the 1990s it would begin to expand nationwide. In 2014, Casa Saba, its own owners, agreed to the sale of smoked pharmacies to the British Alliance Boots, [ first ] Which is subsequently acquired by the American Walgreens, thus moving smoked pharmacies to being part of Walgreens Boots Alliance. [ 2 ]
The company was founded by José Codner Chijner in the center of Santiago, Chile, on Ahumada Street (current Ahumada Paseo) in 1968; In 1969 the name Farmacias Ahumada was born, so thanks to the good years in the business in 1992 the company begins its national expansion opening a place in Valparaíso.
In 1996, Ahumada Pharmacies entered the Peru market with the opening of its first pharmacy in that market.
On December 4, 1997, Ahumada Pharmacies opens its opening to the Santiago Stock Exchange through a capital increase for approximately US $ 21 million, increasing the number of shareholders from 11 to 256.
In 1999, Falabella joined the property of FASA, in a capital increase produced in that year.
In the later years, FASA enters the Brazilian market when acquiring the Drogamed company, in addition to 2002 acquired Farben S.A. of C.V. (Benavides Pharmacies) In Mexico, and then sell the company’s Brazilian subsidiary, leaving the country’s market. Also in the same year, FASA signs a strategic alliance with D&S to operate the pharmalider premises and operate the Presto card (the D&S credit card) in the FASA premises. In this way, the pharmalíder premises became operated by FASA and renowned to smoked pharmacies. [ 3 ]
The chain belonged for a brief period of time to the Mexican group Casa Saba, who announced their purchase on May 18, 2010 for 637 million dollars to the Codner family, thus making it one of the largest networks of sale of medicines in Latin America in Latin America . [ 4 ]
In 2012 Quicorp acquired FASA Peru 100% of the shares through its Quifatex subsidiary in Ecuador, between 2017 and 2020 all the premises of FASA Peru were converted into mifarma, in 2016 all the arcángel apothecar stores closed to also convert them into mifarma and also They closed all the Archangel Polyclinic and Medicentro Arcángel stores to transform them into other medical centers and between 2013 and 2015 all BTL Botic stores were also converted into mifarma. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2014 FASA was sold to the British Alliance Boots for 640 million dollars. [ 7 ] Subsequently, the Alliance Boots group was acquired by the American Walgreens. They became part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, founded at the end of that year. [ first ] [ 2 ]
In November 2018 FASA announced a deep restructuring plan to improve its profitability, due to an internal crisis. This restructuring implied the closure of 50 of its 424 premises and the dismissal of a thousand workers. [ 7 ]
For 2017, the smoked pharmacy market share was 15.1%, being third after Cruz Verde (24.2%) and Salcobrand (16.9%). [ 7 ]
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Price collusion [ To edit ]
On March 24, 2009, the company recognized before the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office to have agreed to the prices of more than 200 products with the Cruz Verde, Salcobrand and Ahumada chains that some laboratories also participated in the event. [ 8 ]
2010 workers’ strike [ To edit ]
In October 2010, a short time after the company was bought by the Mexican Casa Saba, the National Union No. 1 of Ahumada Pharmacies Workers declared a strike to demand the replacement of the variable salary modality of 35,000 pesos (complementable with commissions) for the minimum salary, which in Chile at that time was 170,000 pesos. [ 9 ] [ ten ]
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