5 Things in ePharmacy You Need to Know This Friday 21/10/22
Last-Mile [🇬🇧]
UK-based Boots Boosts Its Last-Mile Delivery Through a Partnership with Uber Eats
Boots has partnered with Uber Eats to launch a 30-minute delivery of beauty and healthcare products to customers' doors in 14 of its stores. Medicines for minor conditions such as coughs, colds, hay fever, moderate pain, rashes, and COVID-19 test kits can be obtained and delivered simply through Uber Eats. Customers using Uber Eats can select from over 900 products available for delivery directly to their homes or workplace. What do you anticipate the outcome of this endeavor will be for the ePharmacy?
Read More: Pharmacy Business
Funding [🇪🇬]
Egypt-based ePharmacy Vezeeta Raises Funding and Prepares to Spur Expansion
Vezeeta, the Egyptian ePharmacy colossus, has raised more funds to aid its expansion aspirations, backed by Abu Dhabi-based Gulf Capital and Sweden-based VNV Global. Vezeeta is now poised to spearhead its expansion into new products and seek acquisitions across the area in order to provide cutting-edge healthcare solutions to a broader audience of patients. Last-mile services have allowed the company to grow 5x quicker in medicine orders, and is now offering ePrescription integration and geo-location monitoring.
Read More: Zawya
Omnichannel [🇪🇸]
Video: Is Omnichannel the Future of the Pharmaceutical Sector?
According to the set of ConSalud TV, the greatest issue that the pharmacy, and the entire health industry faces is digitization. Following the latest advances in the pharmaceutical sector is critical because the pandemic has prompted new consumer consumption methods. Consumption is now omnichannel, according to Nicolas Zombré, General Director of Pierre Fabre Dermocosmética in Spain. Learn more about the pharmaceutical industry's omnichannel debate below.
Read More: America Retail [article in Spanish]. Google Translate in English here.
Legislation [🇪🇬]
An Investigation Team Has Been Formed in Egypt to Combat Illegal Distribution of Drugs Online
The General Department for Combating Public Funds Crimes in Egypt's Public Funds Crimes and Organized Crime Sector launched an initiative to combat the spread of advertisements for illegal medications and medicines other than through one of the companies authorized to import and distribute those substances online. The newly formed research team conducted investigations to determine how they leaked drugs from the company's stores to narcotics traffickers to sell them, which resulted in numerous arrests.
Read More: Tahiamasr [article in Arabic]. Google Translate in English here.
Editor’s Choice [🇨🇱]
Prescription Medicine Can Be Bought Online in Chile
Since 2020, an opportunity has opened in Chile with the online sale of prescription medicines. Currently, there are several options for purchasing Rx remotely, including uploading a photo of the document or sharing your ePrescription with the ePharmacy of your choice. This improves accessibility because it is supplemented by home deliveries. Furthermore, the internet selling of medications allows pure eCommerce player to enter the industry.
Read More: Zoom Technologico [article in Spanish]. Google Translate in English here.
Manufacturers & Retailers Hiring Now:
Discover actively recruiting positions in the ePharmacy Industry below:
Senior Product Owner Digital Services Platform, Thermo Fisher Scientific [🇳🇱]
More info: LinkedIn
Product Manager Dupixent Omnichannel, Sanofi [🇳🇱]
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Digital Performance Specialist, Perrigo [🇬🇧]
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Digital & eCommerce Marketing Specialist, Galderma [🇰🇷]
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eCommerce Specialist, Medtronic [🇩🇰]
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Quiz: Are you an ePharmacy Wizard?
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What's the name of the first global ePharmacy conference?
ePharmacy Congress
ePharmacy Summit
ePharmacy Foundation Show
ePharmacy Federation Conference
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The answer to this week’s quiz is: ePharmacy Summit. The ePharmacy International Summit is the globe’s first 3-day event bringing together experts across geographies from the eCommerce Consumer Healthcare Industry.