ok here is a small company with a september impact date .. that has just added a huge name to its management.. curently at .13 or so..
volume building ..etc
Kaire Holdings Announces That David Kazarian, RPh, FASCD, President of the
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and President of Infuserve America, Has
Been Named President and Senior Strategist of Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and
Pharmacy Unit
LOS ANGELES, Jul 22, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- Kaire Holdings
Inc. (KAIRE), an emerging developer and operator of pure play Internet initiatives
combining unique technologies with specialized products and services for targeted
consumer and business market segments, announced today that David Kazarian, RPh,
FASCD, President of the 7,000-member American Society of Consultant Pharmacists,
and President of Infuserve America, has joined KAIRE as President and Senior
Strategist of Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and Pharmacy Group.
Kazarian brings to Vitaplanet an unparalleled level of professionalism, knowledge and
expertise acquired over decades in the pharmacy industry. Kazarian has built successful
retail and commercial pharmacy business, and developed innovate techniques that
automated many routine pharmacy tasks, and whose record of public service on behalf
of health care is unparalleled, extending even to the Kennedy and Clinton health care
reform initiatives currently under debate on Capitol Hill.
In 1974, while operating a single pharmacy in Connecticut, Kazarian introduced a
comprehensive automated system for records management. Almost immediately his
pharmacy's commercial nursing home business took off, forcing him to establish a
separate company to focus exclusively on long-term-care patients.
During the next few years, Kazarian expanded from one pharmacy to a chain with
locations in every professional building in Hartford. He also founded a consulting
business to serve the then-growing base of patients in extended living facilities, hospitals
and retirement communities. Kazarian Pharmacy's annual revenues increased 20-fold.
Later, in 1976, Kazarian introduced AutoScript, a commercial-version pharmacy
information management system that became an immediate hit, being purchased by
hundreds of New England-area pharmacies.
In 1990, he established Infuserve America, one of the first comprehensive infusion
service companies on the East Coast. Kazarian grew that new company quickly,
generating $4 million in annual sales, landing consulting contracts with several major case
management companies in Florida, and developing customized packaging solutions
tailored to the needs of home-bound patients at high risk for medication-related
problems.
In 1993, the diverse branches of Kazarian's consulting and dispensing activities
coalesced into The Kazarian Group, an integrated group of companies with offices in
Connecticut, Florida and New Jersey.
In addition to his business experience, Kazarian has devoted himself to improving health
care for all Americans. Kazarian has served as Vice President of the American Society
of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) twice, two terms as a member of the ASCP Board
of Directors, two years as chairman of the ASCP-PAC Board of Trustees, and two
years as chairman of the ASCP Midyear Conference Planning Committee.
Additionally, Kazarian had served on Educational, Organizational, and Professional
Affairs councils, as well as the Editorial Review Board of The Consultant Pharmacist
magazine. In 1993, Kazarian received the ASCP's Richard S. Berman Service Award.
In addition to his activities with ASCP, Kazarian has long been active in the Florida and
Connecticut pharmacists associations (CPA), previously chairing CPA's Long-Term
Care.
Kazarian's hope for the future is to bring together long-term-care providers and nursing
facility operators, pooling their resources in creative ways, and enabling them to
compete more effectively in the tough managed care marketplace. In Kazarian's view,
full use of technology is absolutely integral to ensure that pharmacies continue to evolve
into a clinically oriented, patient-centered, service-based profession, a view shared by
KAIRE.
Kazarian began working with KAIRE earlier this year, developing the concepts and
services Vitaplanet will offer. The insight provided by Kazarian into the current and
future needs of Vitaplanet customers, and his extended relationship with the
7,000-member American Society of Consulting Pharmacists (ASCP), have played an
important role in creating the unique products and services Vitaplanet Online Pharmacy
will offer.
Products specifically address conditions related to the particular market segments and
target both individual customers (business to consumer) and commercial or institutional
(business to business) customers.
The Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and Pharmacy, first announced in May 1999, and
scheduled to open in September 1999, will be the first Internet community providing
dynamic interactive solutions to the complex interrelationships between medications,
disease states, nutrition, personal care and other variables related to personal health
care.
KAIRE believes strongly in the future of the Internet and is committed to providing the
strongest possible content, to build and maintain relationships with business and with
consumers, and to establish itself as the leading developer and operator of pure play
Internet initiatives combining unique technologies with specialized products and services.
Copyright (C) 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved.
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CONTACT: Kaire Holdings Inc., North Hollywood
Steven Westlund, 818/255-4996; fax: 818/255-4997
WEB PAGE: businesswire.com
doe sanyone know this company ?
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