Farmacias Roma

What Farmacias Roma does

Farmacias Roma is a privately held, for-profit pharmaceutical company founded in 1964 and headquartered in La Mesa, United States. Per available firmographic data, the company supplies pharmaceutical products, suggesting it operates within the retail pharmacy and/or pharmaceutical distribution value chain. The firm employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people, indicating a mid-to-large operation consistent with a multi-location pharmacy chain or regional pharmaceutical wholesaler rather than a single-store retailer.

Despite the firm's 60+ year operating history, the company's primary web property (farmaciasroma.com) currently renders only a loading/verification screen, blocking access to any product catalog, service descriptions, pricing, or corporate disclosures. As a result, no specifics are available regarding store count, therapeutic categories carried, distribution model, prescription vs. over-the-counter mix, technology infrastructure, or revenue mechanics. The company has no public ticker, no disclosed parent entity, and no observed subsidiaries, funding rounds, or management roster in the supplied data set.

The combination of long operating history, a sizable workforce, and a US footprint in a regulated, scale-driven industry implies a business model that is likely volume-based and locally distributed (i.e., retail pharmacy foot traffic, prescription fills, and/or wholesale drug distribution). However, the absence of verifiable primary-source content means that product mix, unit economics, customer segmentation, and go-to-market posture cannot be confirmed at this time.

Name

Farmacias Roma

Website

https://farmaciasroma.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Farmacias Roma is a US-based, privately held pharmaceutical company founded in 1964, headquartered in La Mesa, that supplies pharmaceutical products and operates with a workforce of 1,001-5,000 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

La Mesa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Farmacias Roma is a for-profit pharmaceutical company that supplies pharmaceutical products. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in La Mesa, United States, it operates as a pharmacy retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees, distributing medications and related health products to end consumers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pharmaceutical products

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Emerging players

• Amazon Pharmacy: Digital-first mail-order pharmacy from Amazon. Direct overlap in pharmaceutical supply with a fundamentally different delivery mechanism that pressures the economics of community pharmacies.
• Alto Pharmacy: Tech-enabled pharmacy offering same-day delivery and managed pharmacy for providers/health plans. Comparable in pharmaceutical supply with a digital-first operating model.
• Capsule Pharmacy: Digital-native pharmacy with home delivery and pharmacist chat. Competes for the same prescription customer with a strong digital experience, underscoring the omnichannel threat to traditional pharmacies.

Broad incumbents

• CVS Health: Largest US retail pharmacy and PBM operator. Comparable as a direct counterpart selling pharmaceutical products through a national chain footprint, though vastly larger in scale and scope.
• Walmart Pharmacy: Pharmacy operations within the largest US mass retailer. Overlaps directly on pharmaceutical supply / dispensing, but as part of a much broader retail and grocery portfolio.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance: Major US pharmacy chain and pharmaceutical distributor with deep retail footprint. Directly comparable product category and customer base, but operates at national scale.
• Costco Pharmacy: Pharmacy services within the Costco warehouse-club network. Comparable on pharmaceutical product supply, executed as a complement to a broader retail membership model.

Others

• McKesson: Largest US pharmaceutical wholesaler/distributor. Comparable upstream of the pharmaceutical supply chain that Farmacias Roma sits in, rather than direct retail competition.
• Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy: Integrated payer-provider-pharmacy operator. Compares on pharmaceutical supply within a closed-loop healthcare system rather than community retail, representing an adjacent model.

Direct peers

• Rite Aid: Multi-region US retail pharmacy chain offering prescription and OTC pharmaceutical products. Closest comparable in business model — community pharmacy retail — at meaningful (but smaller) scale than CVS or Walgreens.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FarmaciasRoma
• Facebookfacebook.com/farmaciasroma

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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