DOUGLAS enters on the net pharmacy market
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10.02.2022 / 09:15
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Acquisition of Disapo
Magnificence and well being and health are converging: DOUGLAS enters on the web pharmacy business
– DOUGLAS acquires Dutch on line pharmacy disapo.de to enter high-progress on line pharmacy business
– On the internet pharmacy to be linked to DOUGLAS platform – begin in Germany
– Designs for gradual enlargement of around-the-counter pharmacy merchandise in core European DOUGLAS markets
– Tina Müller, DOUGLAS Group CEO: “The attractiveness and well being marketplaces are more and more converging. By shifting into the web pharmacy market, we are going to systematically exploit the development alternatives within the well being care market.”
Düsseldorf, 10 February 2022. With the acquisition of the Dutch on the net pharmacy Disapo, DOUGLAS is opening up an enormous progress spot when additionally noticeably rising its wellbeing answer portfolio. For Europe’s high premium magnificence system, this shift is one specific additional motion in its systematic digitalisation system. Centered in Heerlen (NL), disapo.de Apotheke B.V. is among the many large-progress suppliers within the on-line pharmacy group, presently with Germany and China as core markets. The enterprise with near 200 employees recorded gross sales within the giant double-digit million choice within the 2021 financial yr. By incomes this acquisition, DOUGLAS is strengthening two pillars of its development methodology: the reliable digitalisation of its enterprise mannequin and the enlargement of DOUGLAS Group’s providing to comprise well being care merchandise and options.
“The markets for attractiveness and general well being are ever extra converging, which we will plainly see within the wants of our prospects,” says DOUGLAS Group CEO Tina Müller. “We recognised this sample early on and began to persistently enhance our assortment to incorporate much more well being merchandise. We’ll stick with it to develop on our main place as a magnificence and general well being system on this part. Within the examine course of the approaching introduction of e-prescriptions in Germany, the on-line pharmacy group is envisioned to witness substantial development. With Disapo, we are going to systematically exploit the enlargement prospects within the on-line well being and health market place.”
DOUGLAS will join Disapo to its have digital system, consequently presenting tens of millions of DOUGLAS shoppers get hold of to the on the net pharmacy. The launch is deliberate for the primary 50 % of the calendar yr, at first in Germany with about-the-counter (OTC) medicines, which might be made out there, purchased and shipped independently via the partner Disapo on the DOUGLAS market. The choices for buying prescription medicines might be much more expanded when so-termed e-prescriptions are launched nationwide in Germany within the class of the yr.
“By that includes about-the-counter medicines and different pharmacy merchandise by Disapo, our market will instantly entry a whole lot of 1000’s of prospects in Germany by your self. We’re so systematically creating right into a magnificence and properly being system,” states Vanessa Stützle, Essential Digital Officer of DOUGLAS Group. “We’re arranging a gradual development of the on the net pharmacy that includes into our core European nations, so coming right into a market with gross sales in 2020 in additional of 160 billion euros.”
DOUGLAS has now signed a purchase order settlement with Disapo founder and CEO Sebastian Kraus. The acquisition stays topic to antitrust approval the transaction closing is envisioned within the class of the spring. Sebastian Kraus will proceed to be CEO of disapo.de Apotheke B.V. and can lead his on the net retail information with prescription drugs and different pharmacy items to the partnership with DOUGLAS. “In extra of the previous variety of a long time, we’ve put a implausible provide of ardour and energy into producing Disapo a significant-efficiency on the net pharmacy,” claims Kraus. “Now we’re pooling our strengths with DOUGLAS to open up up very good new development potential shoppers. I’m actually significantly looking out ahead to working with the DOUGLAS administration workforce.”
The income amount of the German pharmacy market in 2020 is approximated at throughout 60 billion euros within the DOUGLAS core nations around the globe of France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, the amount was earlier approximated at way more than 100 billion euros. On the web retail accounted for shut to five % of the complete business in Germany in 2020. Disapo has a broad portfolio and was named “Pattern Store Hovering Star of 2022” by Computerbild and Statista.
ABOUT DOUGLAS:
DOUGLAS is the highest premium magnificence system in Europe. Offering way more than 160,000 magnificence and life-style merchandise in on the web retailers, the splendor market and over 2,000 shops, DOUGLAS evokes prospects to dwell their private kind of pure magnificence by giving a beforehand unparalleled assortment. The continued enlargement of the speedy-increasing e-commerce enterprise is the focus of the #FORWARDBEAUTY.DigitalFirst tactic programme. In fiscal yr 2020/2021, DOUGLAS created product gross sales of three.1 billion euros within the locations of perfumery, ornamental cosmetics, pores and pores and skin and hair therapy as successfully as dietary dietary dietary supplements, well being and health and parts.
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