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Article: Franchisees File Legal Action Against Cardinal Health and Medicine Shoppe International.
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- Business Wire
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- June 6, 2006
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MIAMI -- More than 70 Medicine Shoppe franchise owners representing 82 stores have filed legal action against Medicine Shoppe International, Inc. (MSI) and its parent company, Cardinal Health, Inc. (Cardinal Health). The action was filed June 2, 2006, in Missouri through the American Arbitration Association as required by the parties' agreement.
The group of franchisees is comprised of members of the Pharmacy Franchise Owners Association (PFOA), which is made up of 220 Medicine Shoppe and Medicap franchise owners - approximately 20 percent of the total domestic franchisees of MSI.
In the filing, the franchisees lay out several key factors that have led ...