Affiliated Pharmacy Services and Miller Drug Join Forces
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Leading local community pharmacys merge to create locally-owned pharmacy chain
Bangor – Affiliated Pharmacy Services and Miller Drug announced today that their pharmacy operations will be combining into a single entity with four locations in the Bangor area, creating one of the largest independently owned, community pharmacies in the Northeast.
For more than 50 years Bill and Gloria Miller have operated Miller Drug from their landmark location on State Street. Affiliate Pharmacy Services operates three locations: Riverside Pharmacy on the EMMC campus, Westgate Pharmacy in the EMMC Healthcare Mall on Union Street in Bangor and Whiting Hill Pharmacy in the Lafayette Family Cancer Center in Brewer.
It is anticipated all regulatory and licensure changes will be completed by early summer and the four locations will operate as a single service network, improving on the extraordinary standard of access each company’s respective customers have come to expect. The three APS locations will all be re-branded as “Miller Drug” and the very familiar Miller Drug jingle will now say “Miller Drug-Our Family Serving yours – Now from four locations.”
Community pharmacies are all about local families caring for local families. This partnership means that the community pharmacy model will continue to thrive in our region.
“It has long been our primary goal to offer good healthcare and great customer service to each and every resident of this region. And this new partnership will make that even easier,” says Bill Miller of Miller Drug. “We believe our customers will see this change as smooth and simple. Every aspect of the work we do will be improved – our four locations will mean better access, better hours, and increased convenience. We will be able to offer the same level of care and service that my family, the Miller family has shared with our region for more than fifty years.”
“We are absolutely thrilled to join forces with Miller Drug,” says Miles Theeman, President and CEO of Affiliated Healthcare Systems, Affiliated Pharmacy’s parent company. “At AHS we pride ourselves on great relationships with our customers and the quality of products and services we offer. In the pharmacy business, both APS and Miller Drug have set the bar extremely high for both quality and service and for more than four decades nobody has done it better than Billy, Gloria and their team. Joining these two great organizations will ensure that Miller Drug’s incredible legacy of outstanding family-owned, community-based service to residents of eastern and northern Maine will continue for years to come. ‘Miller Drug – Our family serving yours – now from four locations’ isn’t just our new jingle, it’s a way of doing business.”
The combination of Affiliated Pharmacy and Miller Drug into a single, locally-owned community pharmacy means many things for our region: local ownership and decision-makers, a commitment to the health of our region, and access to specialty prescriptions.
Most importantly, this new partnership creates a gold standard for pharmacy customer service that will be available in four locations: Miller Drug on State Street, Miller Drug, Riverside, Miller Drug, Westgate, and Miller Drug, Whiting Hill.
“This change is a realization of a dream for me and I hope you will join Gloria and me in celebrating the new Miller Drug family,” finishes Bill Miller.

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