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Top 23 Retail pharmacy chains based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 216 retail pharmacy chains headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 37,175 professional contacts across them, including 6,079 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers retail pharmacy chains headquartered in Canada, 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 21, 2026.
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The 23 largest retail pharmacy chains based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24,716 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,117 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,039 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 120 years, Rexall has been a trusted name in healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,087 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Groupe Uniprix – et ses bannières Uniprix, Uniprix Santé et Uniprix Clinique – emploie aujourd’hui des milliers de personnes dans des centaines de pharmacies situées aux quatre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 773 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a parent company and a strong supporter of Lawtons Drugs, Sobeys core values reflect the commitment and convictions that have helped shape the company over the past 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 1855, Brunet a pour mission d’offrir aux Québécois les conseils et les services reliés à la santé les plus personnalisés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Medicine Shoppe Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McKesson Canada and operates in nine Canadian provinces and one territory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe better outcomes and healthier communities are achieved through personal relationships with patients like you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Royal Drugs, we do more than dispense medications-we deliver specialty, infusion, and retail pharmacy services that make a real difference in people’s lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sunshine Drugs Family of Pharmacies - Guiding you towards the bright side of wellness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 850 stores across the country, Pharmasave is one of Canada’s leading independent community pharmacies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada represents Canada's leading pharmacy organizations, including chain, banner, long-term care, specialty pharmacies, grocery chains…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Three generations of Lukes family ownership and multiple evolutions along, we still operate our original location in the heart of Bridgeland, as well as a second location in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since opening the doors to the first Dale's Pharmacy in Cabbagetown in 1955, our commitment to healthcare and to our community has allowed us to expand to four pharmacy locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PharmacyBC is your local provider of #medicine and #healthcare services in #vancouver #bc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Goldencare Pharmacy-Burlington is a cosmetics company based out of 1230 North Shore Blvd E, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Familiprix Extra - Danièle Ouellet and Julie Boudreau is a pharmacy based out of 1015 Route Prévost, Saint-Pierre, Quebec, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 20 years, MJ's Natural Pharmacy has proudly served our local communities across Beautiful British Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harrisville Pharmacy is a locally owned, independent community pharmacy committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “nuPharma is a trusted pharmacy located in Calgary, Alberta, dedicated towards providing quality care for patients, with prompt and reliable delivery for online orders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Medpure Natural Pharmacy is a retail company based out of 1531 Victoria St, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Medicine Shoppe #343 - Campus Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: retail pharmacy 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 retail pharmacy chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retail pharmacy chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retail pharmacy 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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Retail pharmacy chains based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 216 companies.
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 retail pharmacy 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “retail pharmacy 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 retail pharmacy 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 retail pharmacy chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 6,079 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 21, 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.
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 retail pharmacy 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 retail pharmacy chains are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 216 retail pharmacy chains headquartered in Canada 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?
Shoppers Drug Mart, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retail pharmacy chains?
Toronto leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (8) and Edmonton (8).
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 6,079 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 216 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 21, 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.