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Independent pharmacists scoop online business award

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Independent pharmacists scoop online business award

An online pharmacy company from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, has walked away with the top Online Business Award at Lancashire’s annual Red Rose Awards.

Chemist-4-U stocks a wide range of products and delivers them to patients at home. Alongside OTC healthcare products, toiletries and fragrances, it also fulfils NHS and private prescriptions and offers an ‘online doctor’ service where users can order prescription-only medicines for certain conditions. Last year, the company’s turnover of £16.9m saw it ranked as the third fastest growing SME in the country.

Shamir Patel, Chemist-4-U’s managing director, said: “It was an honour to be considered for this award and we are all very excited about the opportunities that winning a Red Rose Award brings… We have already set our targets for the next 12 months and they include holding on to this prestigious title.”

The Red Rose Awards were launched by Lancashire Business View in 2011 to celebrate the success of Lancashire business, e-commerce and industry. The judging panel at this year’s ceremony described the Chemist-4-U team as “great forward thinkers who are making revolutionary changes to their industry”.

Lauren Grice, head of client services at Bespoke Digital Agency, the award sponsor, said: “It was an absolute pleasure to present Chemist-4-U with the accolade. The standard of entries this year was incredibly high and it’s fantastic to see a local business taking the industry by storm. We wish the team the best of luck for 2017."

Chemist-4-U is part of Innox Trading Ltd, which is owned by Shamir Patel and fellow pharmacist James O’Loan.

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