The PHOENIX group is planning to acquire parts of McKesson’s European business activities. Both companies signed an agreement for the acquisition of McKesson Europe’s portfolio companies in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Slovenia, as well as the European headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and the minority stake in the joint venture Brocacef Groep in the Netherlands.

PHOENIX ensures the distribution of vaccines against the corona virus in several European countries, thereby supporting national immunisation campaigns.

PHOENIX UK enables members of the Numark pharmacy co-op programme to take advantage of automated dispensing processes in their own dispensary via the Golden Tote system. The result: less inventory and more time for patients and customers.

Two PHOENIX group subsidiaries are specialised in obtaining drugs that are not available or even permitted on the domestic market with pharmaceutical and legal expertise, they can save lives.

The PHOENIX group will enlarge the Executive Board to include the new board function "IT and Digitalisation". In doing so, the leading European healthcare provider stays abreast of the progressing digitalisation of healthcare, underlining its goal to drive forward innovation and trends in the sector.