Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Plumb's Drugs, Rexall in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products.The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977.
The brand name Rexall was first established in 1903 by Louis K. Liggett and gradually became a powerhouse as a pharmaceutical drug store chain. [71] Rexall vitamins and supplements began appearing at Dollar General stores in March and by fall 2010 a full line of Rexall products was available at Dollar General. [72]
The company delivers a third of all pharmaceutical products used or consumed in North America and employs over 80,000 employees [2] [3]. With $308.9 billion in 2024 revenue, it is the ninth-largest company by revenue in the United States and the nation's largest health care company. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
Rexall was founded in 1904 during the early days of the United Drug Company and quickly established itself as a major retail pharmacy chain. At the same time, Tamblyn Drugs was establishing itself in Toronto, Ontario, and would eventually become Pharma Plus. These two companies would later merge to form the Rexall Pharmacy Group. [3]
1917 logo. The Owl Drug Company was an American drugstore retailer with its headquarters in San Francisco that operated the Owl Drug Stores chain. [1] It was a subsidiary of Rexall stores [2] at its peak in the 1920s through 1940s.
Louis Kroh Liggett (April 4, 1875 – June 5, 1946) was an American drug store magnate who founded L.K. Liggett Drug Company and then Rexall. He was later chairman of United Drug Company. He was a member of the Republican National Committee for Massachusetts.
The Dockum Drug Store sit-in was one of the first organized lunch counter sit-ins for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments in the United States. [1] The protest began on July 19, 1958 in downtown Wichita, Kansas, at a Dockum Drug Store (a store in the old Rexall chain), in which protesters would sit at the counter all day until the store closed, ignoring taunts from counter ...
Paul McCartney's 1999 Run Devil Run album cover featuring the Miller's Rexall Drugs store, but with the store's name altered on the sign. Miller's Rexall Drugs is a landmark hoodoo and homeopathic remedy shop in South Downtown Atlanta. [1] Owner Donald Miller opened a Rexall pharmacy in 1960 and moved to the present location at 87 Broad St. in ...