Netcare is to outsource some of its business to Clicks Group.For the retailer, which operates close to 400 pharmacies, the deal extends its presence by 88 trading platforms as it assumes control of 37 Medicross pharmacies and 51 retail front shops of the Netcare Hospital division. The hospital group wanted to affiliate its pharmacies and front shops to an experienced retail provider to enhance the overall retail service offering to patients and consumers.According to Clicks CE David Kneale, the company will be rebranding the Medicross pharmacies and Netcare front shops to Clicks. The capex figure is unknown but all the pharmacies and front shops will be given a Clicks look and feel. This includes IT infrastructure to be able to offer the Clicks ClubCard reward programme. The agreement excludes the dispensing of prescriptions in the Netcare Hospital pharmacies, which remain within Netcare’s hospital operations. Clicks will, however, be running the front-shop health and beauty busines...
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