McKESSON MULTI-SOURCE GENERIC LINE WILL INCLUDE LIQUIDS
Executive Summary
McKESSON MULTI-SOURCE GENERIC LINE WILL INCLUDE LIQUIDS beginning in February 1989. Barre-National will be adding 100 oral liquid products to the Multi-Source line. The liquids will supplement McKesson's Multi-Source program, which was launched a year ago to provide competitively priced generic lines to independent pharmacists. In addition, McKesson has just begun to offer Rx generic creams and ointment products through the Multi-Source program. NMC is McKesson's supplier of cream and lotion dosage forms. The McKesson Multi-Source Program has been providing an oral generic prescription line of 500 SKUs through five suppliers: United Research Labs, Mylan, Par, Squibb and NMC. A McKesson spokesman estimated that the program supplies 80% of independent pharmacists' generic needs, stepped up to 85-90% with the addition of the Barre-National line. Commenting on the program's success at a meeting for securities analysts in New York City Nov. 10, Exec VP-Operations Rex Malson listed the Multi-Source program among the wholesaler's value-added services for independent pharmacy customers. "These drugs sell for substantially less, but carry higher gross margins for us as well as our customers," Malson noted.