About Pharmacy Consulting Associates
PCA is a consulting firm specializing in the life cycle needs of independent pharmacy owners. Our partners have decades of experience in acquisition and commercialization. We have purchased, owned, operated and divested independent pharmacies. We have worked with and ne...gotiated with a range from small buyers breaking into the business to giant corporations. This is important to owners, as our job is to bring you as many different opportunities and buyers as we can. Our history makes us a great match for independent pharmacists, in various stages of pharmacy ownership, today.
PCA is a boutique consulting service. Our credibility has been earned through our efforts with clients, and granted by those same clients. With backgrounds rich in industry and ownership, we have won loyal clients who trust and depend on us at this important time in their lives. Our experience is rooted in the past, and includes millions of dollars in transition transactions healthcare industry wide, most importantly as representatives of independent pharmacy owners across the country.
Our reputation is cherished and nurtured; we set the standard in quality of service and have developed trusting relationships with our clients. They know we are capable of addressing their needs and bringing solutions to pharmacy based problems. PCA has a common core of ethics, with mastery of skills through immersion in working relationships with independent pharmacy sellers and buyers. Our foundation with clients is based on shared values. We have a genuine desire to help you meet your goals. Former clients will likely tell you that we developed our company to build on their dreams of the past and hopes for the future, and deliver accordingly.
PCA knows that each independent pharmacy seller or buyer has individual motivations, timelines and objectives. It is our job to be part of your process and decisions, and to insure that the outcomes meet with your individual requirements. In selecting our team, you are mustering a force of negotiation experts who have the power of knowledge, and information based on divesting and acquiring activities that span our careers. We believe in long lasting relationships and partners. If you become a client, we will speak with you often, listen to your specific needs and communicate with you frequently to update and answer questions. In other words, we do what needs to be done for our independent pharmacy clients to successfully grow and/or transition their pharmacy, while we care for them as people first!
By hiring PCA, you will access the power of our knowledge, information and insight, based on years of experience and relationships in the industry. Our allegiance and responsibility is solely to you; you benefit from our reliability, our visibility, and our industry wide relationships. We work to become your trusted advisor. You will have peace of mind, knowing you are being represented in a professional, confidential manner. Through our cooperation, you will be marketed competitively and exhaustively to our extensive and proprietary contacts. Additionally, you will benefit from our knowledge of precedence, trends, and any “dirty” tricks others potentially play out during those processes.
We use competitive intelligence as well as past and future patterns and connections to press the advantage. We systematically do extensive backgrounders on buyers, finding the right fit(s), which makes all the difference. After millions of dollars in transitions, we can be agile, while insuring best business practices and controls with a results orientation and determination to get you the right outcome.
NOTE: Our PCA team includes a licensed financial partner, who has extensive experience buying and selling independent pharmacies, and frequently consults with clients to insure that their accounting records maximize the potential of the pharmacy. We encourage clients considering either growth (new owners or those experiencing expansion opportunities) or exit strategies (pharmacists near the end of the ownership cycle) to work with him. Our experience is that many pharmacy owners are busy with the day-to-day clinical and operational tasks necessary to successfully run the business.
Pharmacy Consulting Associate’s interactions are hallmarked with simplicity and detail orientation, while focusing on self-tracking and frequent updates for our pharmacy owner clients. Once letters of intent or offers are in, we will develop those and discuss the pros and cons of each. Ultimately, it will be your decision as to when to sell, how much to sell for, and what type of buyer you choose … you will know you are making informed decisions based on competition, a fully demand planned and implemented course of action, and comprehensive market knowledge.
