 
Guardian Lifecare Pvt. Limited is a four-year-old chain of
Pharmacy, Wellness, Health and Beauty Retail outlets, has 110
outlets in North, East and West India and is adding 2 new
stores each week. The company has an aggressive expansion plan
and will grow into a 250-store retail chain by 31st March
2009.
Guardian is positioned as a "friendly neighbourhood
pharmacy" delivering 100% reliable medicines to over 3 million
customers each year. Our mission at Guardian is to ensure that
only genuine medicines are made available to customers at
reasonable prices. Guardian is an ISO 9001:2000, pharmacy
chain since 2005.
The company currently operates in 15 cities in North, East
and West India - Mumbai, Gurgaon, Delhi, Noida, Meerut,
Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Jaipur, Varanasi, Sonepat,
Hissar, Rewari and Ludhiana.
Our brands are:
- India's
most reliable and best stocked pharmacy and beauty store
("Good Health Starts Here")
- The finest
nutraceutical store with the widest selection of vitamins,
nutritional supplements and sports nutrition.
- Providing convenience in the BPO / Office
space
- The
best stocked chemist in rural and semi urban India,
providing a wide range of reliable medicines ("Dawa Sahi Dam
Wahi")
Management -
The company has a strong management team and
employs over 800 people including over 200 qualified
pharmacists.
Hospital pharmacy
- The company is an approved supplier to CGHS
(Central Government Health Scheme). In addition to retail
store operations, Guardian also has a strong presence in
hospitals and currently manages the following hospital
pharmacies.
- Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi - (1200 beds)
- Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital, Jaipur - 500 beds)
- Jindal Hospital, Hissar - (500 beds)
- B.L. Kapur Memorial Hospital, New Delhi - (500 beds)
- Rajputana Hospital, Jaipur - (100 beds)
- Sarvodaya Hospital, Faridabad - (250 beds)
Supply chain
- We have a robust supply
chain, which handles 40,000 SKU's across the chain and we deal
with every major pharmaceutical company in the country. We
have four distribution centres as follows:
- Gurgaon (10,000 square feet)
- Noida (6,000 square feet)
- Varanasi (3000 square feet)
- Jaipur (2000 square feet)
Guardian Health Chronicle - The
company's newspaper Guardian Health Chronicle, a four page
fortnightly broad-sheet in English and Hindi is distributed
with India's two largest circulated newspapers - Hindustan
Times in English and Dainik Jagran in Hindi. Guardian Health
Chronicle has a circulation of 200,000 copies each week. The
online edition of the paper is available at http://www.myhealthguardian.com/
Guardian Advantage Card
- Our loyalty card has over 150,000 members.
GNC - As part
of our strategy to bring the best of international health and
food supplements products to India, Guardian has signed master
franchisee with GNC Inc, the world's largest dietary
supplements company (http://www.gncindia.in/).
GNC products are available as an implant GNC store within 22
Guardian stores and 2 stand alone stores and are distributed
at another 50 Guardian Pharmacy stores.
Guardian Private Labels
- Continuing with our
strategy to give our customers quality products at competitive
prices we have introduced our private labels in feminine
hygiene and baby care segment. Plans are on anvil to extend
the range. |
