American Drug Stores sales rise, profits decline. (American Drug Stores...

Chain Drug Review;  March 28, 1994 ;     592 words ......causing American Drug Stores Inc. to realize a...fiscal 1992. Full-year sales improved 8...fourth quarter American Drug Stores' contribution to its...from $67.7 million a year earlier. Sales advanced 7...acquisitions of 55 Reliable Drug Stores Inc. and four ...

Genovese earnings ahead 21%. (Genovese Drug Stores)

Chain Drug Review;  April 20, 1992 ;     331 words ......fiscal quarter, Genovese Drug Stores saw its bottom line expand...up from $5.51 million a year earlier. Sales, reflecting the sluggish...improved to 1.5% from 1.3%, year to year. Except for a couple of...net gain from selling two drug stores. Factoring out these ...

GENOVESE DRUG STORES, INC. ANNOUNCES RECORD SALES FOR THE THIRD QUARTER...

PR Newswire;  November 27, 1995 ;     437 words ......income did not equal a year earlier. The effect of lower...probably be less than a year earlier but is anticipated...market area, Genovese Drug Stores continues to increase...market share. GENOVESE DRUG STORES, INC. Third Quarter...Treasurer of Genovese Drug ...

Longs posts 19.3% gain in earnings. (Longs Drug Stores Corp.)

Chain Drug Review;  June 6, 1994 ;     250 words ......a big run-up in gross margins, Longs Drug Stores tallied a 19.3% jump in earnings before...to $622.3 million from $608 million a year earlier, as the volume gained through the net...gross margins to 26.5% from 25.2% a year earlier. The improvement reflects Longs' merchandising...

Supercenter sales advance 7.5% in January, drug stores up 1.9%.(Financial...

The Food Institute Report;  March 17, 2008 ;     264 words ......supercenter sales in January at $25.6 billion--7.5% more than a year earlier. At least some of that gain can be attributed to higher...to $17.1 billion, while e-retailers advanced 6% from a year earlier top $16.6 billion. The small increase in drug store sales...NOV $29,236 -- DEC $36,447 -- ...

American Drug Stores records 4.3% profit gain. (American Drug Stores Inc.)

Chain Drug Review;  June 29, 1992 ;     700+ words ......rising 8.7%, American Drug Stores generated a 4.3% operating...versus $39.6 million a year earlier. Volume grew to $952...contributions from 59 Osco drug stores in the Mountain States...million net loss a year earlier, when it incurred...operating profits at our ...

Fourth quarter results disappointing at Perry. (Perry Drug Stores)

Chain Drug Review;  January 14, 1991 ;     468 words ......year, operating earnings at Perry Drug Stores nosedived from the fiscal 1989...down 91.6% from $7.11 million a year earlier. Including the $6.8 million deduction...in the company's core Michigan drug stores were offset by declines in its...

Genovese posts 18.4% earnings gain. (Genovese Drug Stores Inc.)

Chain Drug Review;  June 21, 1993 ;     197 words ...MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Genovese Drug Stores, continuing to squeeze costs, started fiscal 1993 off by registering...jumped 18.4% to $1.48 million from the $1.25 million recorded a year earlier, as sales grew 3.3% to $142.6 million from $138.1 million...

American Drug Stores operating profits up 11.6%.

Chain Drug Review;  June 20, 1994 ;     700+ words ...SALT LAKE CITY--American Drug Stores parlayed a tight rein on...billion from $1.03 billion a year earlier, with like-store sales ahead...performance results from the drug stores that were acquired and remerchandised...million from $41.5 million a year earlier, when the ...

Perry bucks flat volume trend with soaring income. (Perry Drug Stores)

Chain Drug Review;  July 3, 1989 ;     425 words ......Bucking flat sales, Perry Drug Stores saw earnings from continuing...722,000 from $276,000 a year earlier. The second quarter gain...division in the previous year, the $722,000 profit in this year's quarter contrasts with a $2.23 million net loss a year ago. For the first six ...

Pay'n Save boosts revenues at Thrifty. (Thrifty Drug Stores Inc.)

Chain Drug Review;  June 19, 1989 ;     392 words ......compared with $27 million and $563 million, respectively, a year earlier. After-tax operating earnings exclude interest expenses...expanded to 1,034 at the end of the 1989 quarter from 801 a year earlier; the drug store total mushroomed to 802 from 640. Although...consolidation process, the chain ...

American Drug sales ahead 10% for year. (American Drug Stores Inc.)

Chain Drug Review;  April 9, 1990 ;     546 words ......for year SALT LAKE CITY--American Drug Stores Inc. (which consists of 531 Osco Drug...the segment's California and Nevada drug stores were impacted by a program to change...operating margins to 2.7% from 2.4% a year earlier. Nonetheless, American Stores' net...53.1 million from $20.2 ...

Rebound continues as Perry rings up record sales. (Perry Drug Stores Inc.)...

Chain Drug Review;  April 26, 1993 ;     700+ words ......The renaissance continued at Perry Drug Stores last year as the retailer rang up record...revenues compared with 45% in the period a year earlier. The retailer's interest expenses were...as the chain reached that benchmark a year earlier than expected. On the expense side...

Minnesota-Based Snyder's Drug Stores to Buy Ohio's Drug Emporium.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 24--Snyder's Drug Stores said Friday that it will purchase Drug Emporium...under the names Drug Emporium, F&M Super Drug Stores and Vix Drug Stores in California to Maryland. It has two Twin Cities...spokesman for the National ...

Photography arena out-paces the overall mix at drug stores. (includes...

Chain Drug Review;  February 26, 1990 ;     418 words ......out-paces the overall mix at drug stores CDR Roundup--Drug store...than the overall mix at drug stores. These were some of the...sales were recorded by drug stores last year, a 12% increase from those of the year earlier. While this category...discount ...