Health and personal care retailers
This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing health and personal care products. Drug stores and pharmacies, cosmetics, beauty supplies and perfume retailers, optical goods retailers food (health) supplement retailers and health appliance retailers are included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 19,972
- Under 10 employeesA
- 64%
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 19,972 Canadian establishments with employees, 64% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 456, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
A regulated profession with reimbursement set by payers. Independents join banners for purchasing, and file-buying by chains is the usual exit.
- Who sets the price
- Public and private drug plans set reimbursement; front-shop prices follow the chains.
- The software it runs on
- Pharmacy management systems tied to claims adjudication.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Companies in this industry · 5
Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.
| Company | Filed under | Revenue | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| OmnicellNASDAQ:OMCL | Pharmacies and drug stores456110 | $1.2B | 1/5 |
| LibertyPrivate | Pharmacies and drug stores456110 | — | 2/5 |
| McKesson EnterpriseRxPrivate | Pharmacies and drug stores456110 | — | 3/5 |
| PioneerRxPrivate | Pharmacies and drug stores456110 | — | 4/5 |
| QSPrivate | Pharmacies and drug stores456110 | — | 5/5 |
Who works here
The occupations employed in Retail trade, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Tagged to this industry
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.
Inside this industry
1 row sits directly beneath 456, and 10 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4561 | Health and personal care retailers | 19,972 | Independent Pharmacy Management |