Company overview
United Drug is a leading provider of services to pharmaceutical retailers and manufacturers. It is the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the island of Ireland. It is also the market leader in contract distribution outsourcing (pre-wholesaling) in Ireland and has achieved No. 1 position in the UK through its joint venture with Alloga, a company owned by the Galencia Group & Alliance Unichem. - UDG.
In additon to contract distribution services for pharma manufacturers, United Drug provides contract distribution, sales & marketing and technical services to Medical & Scientific equipment & consumable manufacturers, with a market leading position in Ireland and an emerging presence in the UK.
United Drug, trading as AshfieldIn2Focus in the UK and Ashfield Healthcare in Ireland, is a leading provider of contract sales outsourcing services to pharmaceutical manufacturers. History of the company
In 1948, a group of West of Ireland Chemists began United Drug's business in Ballina, Co. Mayo, due to the poor service from the national wholesalers based in Dublin. Steady growth in the West led to an invitation by Munster pharmacists to open a branch in Limerick in 1953. The business continued to develop to gain a leading market share in the Western and Southern regions of Ireland.
The purchase of the Aryton Saunders business in 1972 established United Drug as a truly national distributor and competed on equal terms with its peers for the first time nation-wide.
In over 50 years of operation, United Drug’s philosophy of service to its customers, shareholders and suppliers, has made it uniquely successful in Ireland and strategically well placed to continue growing. |