Independent pharmacy: $84 billion marketplace

Independent pharmacy prescription sales: $78 billion

Independents dispense 1.4 billion prescriptions annually 41% of the retail prescriptions

Prescription medicines are our business: 92.4% of annual sales are Rx medicines

Average independent pharmacy sales: $3.6 million

Average prescription sales: $3.49 million

Average number of prescriptions per pharmacy: 61,087 annually, 196 per day

Independent Ownership Over 30% of independent owners have ownership in two or more pharmacies Overall, the average independent owns 1.69 pharmacies

Independent pharmacies offer a wide range of patient services The top services offered in 2005 were: nutrition (91%), delivery (86%), charge accounts (86%), compounding (79%), and herbal medicine (75%)

Staffing in independent pharmacies Average independent employs 13.4 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees Average independent employs 3.2 FTE pharmacists (including owner) Average independent employs 4.6 FTE technicians

Generic drug utilization 58% of drugs dispensed by independent pharmacies are generics