A year of ‘belt tightening’ as no new openings planned at Sam McCauley

ONE of the country’s biggest pharmacy chains, Sam McCauley Chemists, said that this is a year of belt-tightening and it has no plans for store openings.

It expects this year to be even worse than last year as HSE cutbacks take hold.

Turnover at the Co Wexford-based company fell €702,083 to €84.7 million in the year to the end of September 2009.