UAB Euroapotheca | |
Type: | Retail |
Foundation: | 2007 |
Location City: | Vilnius |
Location Country: | Lithuania |
Key People: | Asta Juodeškaitė, Acting CEO |
Industry: | Pharmacy retail |
Revenue: | €740 million[1] |
Net Income: | €17.8 million |
Num Employees: | 3.8 thousand (2018) |
Parent: | Vilniaus prekyba |
Homepage: | www.euroapotheca.lt |
Euroapotheca UAB is a pharmacy retail company headquartered in Lithuania. The company operates 916 pharmacies in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and is owned by Vilniaus prekyba.[2]
Euroapotheca was founded in 2007 as holding company for its existing pharmacies.[3]
In 2018, Euroapotheca purchased the state owned franchise pharmacy chain Apoteksgruppen in Sweden which provided services to 186 pharmacies and owning three pharmacies of its own.[4] The same year the 13 pharmacies Ülikooli Apteek and Medapta was purchased from Finnish Yliopiston Apteekki.[5] Euroapotheca left the Ukrainian market in 2018.[6]
In 2022, Euroapotheca and Finnish owned Oriola created a 50/50 joint venture by merging the Swedish pharmacy chains Apoteksgruppen and Kronans Apotek.[7]
As of 2017, the group has stores in 5 European countries: