Established in 1991 , from 6 networks of São Paulo drugstores seeking own sectoral representation , the association was born and works for the betterment of the large national retail pharmacy , serving institutional , legal and politically with public , government and suppliers .

Big Pharma networks associated with Abrafarma have around 5,713 stores spread across the country . Despite being limited to 7.9 % of the universe of 71 000 existing pharmacies in Brazil represent 44.5 % of drug sales in the country . In 2014 , he was responsible for the sale of more than 3.1 billion units ( volume ), an increase of 8.1 % over the previous year . The strength of networks is also translated by 812,679,750 tax receipts issued in a year . It ’ s as if the entire Brazilian population had passed four times in these pharmacies . Over the past 20 years , networks associated with the entity have

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