Awards

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Hamacher Resource Group this week announced that it had received a Communicator Award of Distinction for its 2016 holiday video in the branded content business-to-business category.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and CVS Health Foundation’s inaugural class of 38 students and mentors have successfully completed a scholarship opportunity whereby students pair with a mentor to design and implement a quality-related project. The program concluded with the students presenting the results of their projects during the Poster Presentation session at the PQA Annual Meeting.

NEW YORK — AmerisourceBergen, AbbVie and Cardinal Health earned perfect scores in the Barron’s 500 list, an exclusive ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies, measured by reported in sales in the latest fiscal year and whose primary stock is listed in the United States or Canada. AmerisourceBergen, AbbVie and both earned perfect “grade point averages” of 4.0, based their stocks’ return on investment and sales growth.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Pharmacy Quality Alliance on Thursday announced eight Medicare plans received PQA Quality Awards for high achievement or significant improvement in PQA measures of medication safety and appropriate use. Six plans received the PQA Excellence in Quality Award and two plans received PQA's Quality Improvement Award during PQA's 12th Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

TORONTO — The Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada on Thursday honored John Tse, a London Drug executive who has been involved in Canada's retail pharmacy industry for more than 25 years, as the 2017 recipient of the Len Marks Pharmacy Advancement Award.

The award will be presented at the Chairman's Dinner during the Pharmacy, Health and Beauty EXPO 2017.

OXON HILL, Md. — Albertsons and Wegmans Food Markets were named by the Environmental Protection Agency as Safer Choice Partners of the Year for 2017, which honors outstanding achievement in the design, manufacture, promotion, and use of Safer Choice-labeled products over the past year. The awards were presented at National Harbor in Oxon Hill on May 15.

Jackson, Miss.-based Transcript Pharmacy has enjoyed stellar growth for several years running, culminating the company being named to Inc. Magazine’s top growth lists five times. Drug Store News reached out Transcript Pharmacy president Cliff Osbon for an exclusive interview to learn more about the company and its impressive year-over-year growth. 

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Dawn Vogelsang, Hamacher Resource Group president and majority owner, will be part of the Women in Business main stage event at the BizExpo in downtown Milwaukee on May 24. The Women in Business panel will take place at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, and Vogelsang will join three fellow women business owners to speak on the topics of competition, culture, leadership and personal motivation.