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• We opened 435 new stores for a total
of 4,953 Walgreens in 45 states and
Puerto Rico.
• We filled 490 million prescriptions –
15 percent of the U.S. retail market.
Pharmacy is 64 percent of our business.
• Our drugstores serve 4.4 million
customers daily and average $8.3 million
in annual sales per store. That’s $747
per square foot, among the highest in
the drugstore industry.
• Walgreens has 179,000 employees and
approximately 750,000 shareholders.
We added 15,700 jobs in fiscal 2005.
• Walgreens digital photo service now
offers customers the ability to upload
photos from home and pick up their
prints at nearly any store chainwide in
one hour.
• Walgreens ranks No. 1 among food and
drug stores on Fortune magazine’s Most
Admired Companies in America list.
We also rank 38th on the Fortune 500
list of the largest U.S.-based companies.
•Barron’s magazine lists Walgreens as
one of the top 10 “most respected”
companies in the world.
2005 Highlights
About the Cover
Walgreens, one of the fastest growing retailers in the
United States, leads the chain drugstore industry in
sales and profits. Guided by a tradition of trust since
1901, we are committed to steady, long-term profitable
growth. Our strategy is to be the nation’s most convenient
and technically advanced provider of prescription drugs,
basic needs and managed care services.
We care for people like (from left to right) shareholder Phuong Herrera with son Jaden; pharmacy patient Karen Wood; Ovations
executives Tom Paul and Lois Quam; Walgreens pharmacist Lachell Wardell; photo customers Nathaniel and Eddie Sanchez
and Haydes Gonzalez; and Mayor Spence Broadhurst of Wilmington, North Carolina. See their stories in our Operations Report.