PHARMACY Alliance members converged at the annual Members' Forum at Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast last week to 'shape their future".
CEO Darren Dye addressed more than 130 member and supplier partner delegates saying, "Our focus as a business is to help our members grow and develop their profits in an uncertain pharmacy environment by providing specific strategies that they can implement to provide greater return".
The Pharmacy Alliance team presented a strategic plan that will see membership grow to 1100+ pharmacies by 2020 which includes both independent and co-branded Alliance Pharmacy members.
Initiatives have been developed to drive members' future financial success through Alliance Rewards, a new incentive program for pharmacies, and more development with supported Z POS and Dispense system to drive pharmacy operations.
Kos Sclavos, in his opening keynote said that the key to shaping the future is to focus on creating a deep relationship with patients with tools readily available today.
In addition, Pharmacy Alliance revealed a new pain category strategy, a collaborative project with key supplier partners, to differentiate co-branded Alliance Pharmacy members as pain management experts.
International retail expert, Gal Shivtiel, drew on overseas examples to emphasise how shoppers want to shop, when they want to shop and what inspires them.
The expert panel is pictured below from left: Gal Shivtiel, managing director GIG Retail; Bill Turner, Office of Drug Control, Department of Health; Mark Mesiha - pharmacist and regional manager, Pharmacy Alliance; Darren Dye - Pharmacy Alliance ceo and Kos Sclavos - pharmacist and former national president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
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