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Top 25 Drug store chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,848 drug store chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 495,180 professional contacts across them, including 48,240 with verified work emails. Germany is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers drug store chains worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for drug store chains follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest drug store chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 71,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1901, Walgreens has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 46,719 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CVS Pharmacy is a leading U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 26,033 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rite Aid is a full-service pharmacy committed to improving health outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 24,716 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Built on a foundation of professional expertise and personal service, Shoppers Drug Mart has been meeting Canadians' health care needs for 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 21,018 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada’s food and pharmacy leader, serving millions of customers each week through our network of stores, pharmacies and trusted brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 19,954 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13,056 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos gente que cuida de gente.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 11,265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Giant Eagle, we believe in nourishing life’s moments, big and small, because they matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10,550 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader serving millions of customers and patients every day, with a 170-year heritage of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 8,152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a leader in the healthcare market, Clicks Group is committed to increasing access to affordable primary healthcare for all South Africans through its Clicks Retail pharmacy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7,532 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6,688 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As South Africa’s go-to health authority, Dis-Chem is an integrated health and retail partner committed to making quality care more affordable, convenient and inclusive for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6,472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chemist Warehouse is part of Sigma Healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5,865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com uma trajetória centenária guiada pelo propósito de encantar e satisfazer as necessidades dos nossos clientes, somos a maior rede de drogarias de Minas Gerais.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5,537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1841, AS Watson Group is one of the world's longest-standing and most recognised retail companies with roots in Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4,611 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LIFE Pharmacy is the largest retail chain of pharmacies in Middle East with 500+ Pharmacies, Health & Wellness Stores and Hypermarkets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4,117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1969, le réseau Jean Coutu figure parmi les noms les plus réputés dans l’industrie canadienne de la vente au détail en pharmacie et compte un réseau de plus de 420…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4,039 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 120 years, Rexall has been a trusted name in healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4,013 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cuidar está na nossa essência e dos nossos mais de 11 mil colaboradores também.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3,831 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publix proudly launched its first pharmacy in 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3,285 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cia Latino Americana de Medicamentos is a multi-branded chain of drugstores that operates in the southern region of Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2,775 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apoteket är Sveriges ledande apoteksaktör och ett av landets mest omtyckta varumärken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2,678 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há 61 anos, a Extrafarma atua no mercado de varejo farmacêutico com o propósito de dar acesso à saúde e bem-estar para as pessoas viverem o seu melhor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2,522 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Ezaby Pharmacy is recognized as Egypt’s uncontested leading provider of health and personal care products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2,482 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “På Hjärtat har vi ett fantastiskt uppdrag: vi hjälper människor att må bättre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: drug store chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names drug store chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug store chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug store chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Drug store chains worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among drug store chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for drug store chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “drug store chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names drug store chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among drug store chains, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 48,240 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Drug store chains by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Drug store chains list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Drug store chains based in Germany513
- Drug store chains based in the United States431
- Drug store chains based in Brazil416
- Drug store chains based in Italy194
- Drug store chains based in India134
- Drug store chains based in Canada120
- Drug store chains based in Australia71
- Drug store chains based in the United Arab Emirates44
- Drug store chains based in Mexico36
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names drug store chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many drug store chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,848 drug store chains worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Walgreens, headquartered in Deerfield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most drug store chains?
Germany leads with 513 companies, followed by the United States (431) and Brazil (416). Every drug store chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most drug store chains?
Sao Paulo leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (32) and Cairo (30).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 48,240 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,848 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.