United Drug make big gains

UNITED Drug has achieved strong growth in the first quarter of the current financial year, chairman Martin Rafferty said yesterday.

He told shareholders at the annual general meeting in Dublin it was particularly pleasing that United’s wholesale pharmaceutical division had made further gains, as independent retail pharmacists continued to transfer their business to the group.

“So far as United Drug is concerned there is nothing that we can see that will have any material effect on the affairs of United Drug in the years ahead,” he said.