Farmacia São Lucas

What Farmacia São Lucas does

Farmácia São Lucas is a privately held regional retail pharmacy chain headquartered in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Founded in 2010, the company operates eight physical pharmacy branches distributed across three cities in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul — Ijuí (the headquarters and four additional filiais), Santo Ângelo (two branches), and Catuípe (two branches). The business serves local individual consumers seeking prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, health and personal care items, and beauty products, with health insurance (convênio) partnerships allowing insured customers to purchase through their health plans.

The company has no disclosed proprietary technology platform, digital product, or app; its core product is in-store pharmacy retail augmented by a telephone-based delivery service (tele-entrega) for remote ordering. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer through physical storefronts, with no online store, no e-commerce channel, and a minimal digital presence limited to a static website and a Facebook page. The revenue model is transaction-based retail pharmacy sales, with no subscription, contracted, or enterprise customer relationships, and no publicly disclosed pricing.

The company is small, privately held, family/independent in nature, with headcount of 11 employees servicing eight retail locations. No funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, regulatory actions, or product launches are documented in the source data beyond the multi-branch expansion across northwestern Rio Grande do Sul and the operations of the tele-entrega and convênio services.

Name

Farmacia São Lucas

Legal name

Farmacia São Lucas

Website

https://farmaciasaolucasijui.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Farmacia São Lucas is a privately owned regional pharmacy chain in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, operating eight retail branches across Ijuí, Santo Ângelo, and Catuípe to serve local consumers with prescription, OTC, and personal care products via in-store sales and telephone delivery.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ijuí

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Retail Pharmacy Sales: The company generates revenue through retail sales of pharmaceutical products including prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, health and personal care items, and beauty products. Sales occur through multiple physical store locations with in-person transactions, supplemented by telephone ordering with delivery service.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Farmácia São Lucas is a regional retail pharmacy chain operating 8 physical storefronts across Ijuí, Santo Ângelo, and Catuípe in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It sells prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, health and personal care products, and beauty items to walk-in consumers, and complements in-store trade with a telephone delivery service (tele-entrega) and acceptance of health insurance plans (convênios).

Product overview

Farmácia São Lucas is a regional pharmacy chain operating multiple physical store locations (filiais) in Ijuí and Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The company offers pharmaceutical products through its retail stores and participates in health plan agreements (convênios). The primary offering is retail pharmacy services across multiple branches including a main store (Loja Matriz) and several satellite locations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Retail pharmacy products (prescription and OTC medications, health, personal care, and beauty items) Over-the-counter and prescription medications, health and personal care items, and beauty products sold directly to individual consumers at the company's 8 physical branches in Ijuí, Santo Ângelo, and Catuípe, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
• Telephone delivery service (Tele-entrega) Remote ordering service that allows customers to call listed branch phone numbers to order pharmacy products and have them delivered, supporting customers who cannot easily visit a physical store.
• Health insurance plan billing (Convênios) In-store billing service that allows insured customers to purchase pharmacy products through partner health insurance plans (convênios) at any of the 8 branches.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Health Insurance Providers (Convênios)coreOthersFarmacia São Lucas maintains partnerships with health insurance providers (convênios) allowing insured customers to purchase products through their health plans. The company website displays partner logos (logos_parceiros.png) indicating multiple health insurance partnerships. These partnerships expand the customer base by serving insured patients and providing billing convenience through insurance coverage.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Pague Menos: Major Brazilian pharmacy chain with ~1,100+ stores concentrated in the North/Northeast but expanding nationally. Same retail pharmacy product set as São Lucas (Rx, OTC, personal care, beauty) and competing for the same end consumer.
• Drogaria Pacheco: Traditional Brazilian pharmacy chain (now part of DPSP/Drogaria São Paulo-Pacheco) focused in southeastern Brazil, with full prescription, OTC, and personal care assortment. Comparable product/customer base to São Lucas at a much larger national scale.
• Raia Drogasil (Drogasil): Largest retail pharmacy chain in Brazil, operating thousands of Drogasil and Raia stores nationwide with a strong digital channel. Directly comparable to Farmacia São Lucas in product category (prescription, OTC, health/beauty) but vastly larger in scale and geographic reach.

Direct peers

• Panvel Farmácias: Regional pharmacy chain headquartered in Rio Grande do Sul with strong presence in southern Brazil and integrated e-commerce/app. Most direct geographic and operational peer to Farmacia São Lucas, competing for the same RS interior customers with a much larger store count and digital infrastructure.
• Preço Popular Farmácias: Value-positioned pharmacy chain with strong presence in southern Brazil including Rio Grande do Sul. Competes with São Lucas on price-sensitive OTC and personal care categories with a multi-store model in similar markets.
• Farmácias São João: Large regional pharmacy chain operating primarily in southern Brazil (RS and neighboring states) with hundreds of stores. Closest peer in business model and geographic footprint to São Lucas, focused on prescription fulfillment, OTC, and personal care.
• Drogaria Venancio: Traditional Rio de Janeiro-based pharmacy chain with strong local brand presence and multiple stores. Comparable in its retail pharmacy-only model, prescription/health/beauty assortment, and reliance on multi-branch local density similar to São Lucas.

Emerging players

• Ultrafarma: Online-led Brazilian pharmacy offering nationwide delivery of OTC, personal care, and prescription products. Represents the digital-native competitive vector that São Lucas currently lacks, threatening even smaller regional pharmacy chains via price and convenience.
• Onofre (now part of RD): Premium-positioned Brazilian pharmacy chain acquired by RD/Raia Drogasil, with strong online presence. Comparable prescription and specialty health assortment, illustrating how digital and brand investment can lift a regional pharmacy into a broader competitive footprint.

Regional players

• Drogaria Catarinense: Pharmacy chain headquartered in Santa Catarina with operations in southern Brazil. Comparable retail pharmacy offering (Rx, OTC, beauty, health) and similar regional/interior focus to São Lucas.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/saolucasfarmacias
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/farmacia-s%C3%A3o-lucas

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

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