La Grande Pharmacie d'Echirolles

What La Grande Pharmacie d'Echirolles does

Pharmanity is a French pharmacy search engine platform founded in 2013 and headquartered at IncubaGEM in Grenoble, operating as SARL Pharmanity. The platform is a geolocation-based web service that helps consumers locate nearby pharmacies, check product availability and pricing, and reserve products for click-and-collect pickup. The platform references 23,402 pharmacies across France, of which 2,783 are active partner pharmacies, against a catalog of 604,058 products, covering nine major French regions including Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

The underlying technology is a web-based directory and search engine with proprietary features including pharmacy proximity search, product lookup, price comparison, and online product reservation. The platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud HDS (Hébergement de Données de Santé) infrastructure with data centers in France, satisfying French healthcare data-hosting requirements. Beyond the consumer-facing directory, the company designs and hosts customized white-label partner pharmacy websites (e.g., grande-pharmacie-echirolles.fr, pharmacie-de-chamnord.fr), creating a co-branded acquisition channel for new partner pharmacies.

Pharmanity operates a two-stream revenue model: (1) professional services revenue from designing customized white-label websites for individual partner pharmacies, and (2) advertising revenue from pharmaceutical laboratories. Basic platform listings are free for pharmacies, while premium partner status and bespoke website services generate the bulk of monetized revenue. The customer base spans B2C consumers (free, unmonetized directly) and a long-tail B2B base of more than 2,700 SMB partner pharmacies across France, with no disclosed anchor enterprise customers or concentration.

Name

La Grande Pharmacie d'Echirolles

Legal name

SARL Pharmanity

Website

https://grande-pharmacie-echirolles.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pharmanity is a French pharmacy search engine platform founded in 2013 that connects consumers with nearby pharmacies through geolocation-based discovery, price comparison, and click-and-collect reservations, serving over 23,000 listed pharmacies nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Pharmacy

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54), Pharmacies and Drug Retailers (456110), Advertising Material Distribution Services (541870)

SIC

Retail-Drug Stores And Proprietary Stores (5912), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Health, Wellness & Pharmacy Marketplaces (CRAFABAF)

Keywords

• Retail pharmacy
• Pharmacy dispensing
• Parapharmacy products
• Medical equipment retail
• Pharmacy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Grenoble

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Website development services for pharmacies: Pharmanity generates revenue by designing connected pharmacy websites 100% customized to match partner pharmacies' branding. This is a professional services revenue stream for creating and maintaining pharmacy online presence.
2. Laboratory advertising: Revenue is generated through advertising from pharmaceutical laboratories. Pharmanity monetizes its platform through laboratory advertising partnerships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

La Grande Pharmacie d'Echirolles is a local retail pharmacy dispensing medications, selling parapharmacy and medical equipment products, and offering pharmacy services to individual consumers in Echirolles, France. Its online presence is a Pharmanity-powered website that allows customers to browse and locate medications, parapharmacy ranges, medical devices, and pharmacy services, with the ability to reserve products for click-and-collect pickup.

Product overview

Pharmanity is a web-based pharmacy directory and geolocated search platform that enables users to find nearby pharmacies, check product availability and prices, and discover services and specializations. The platform lists over 23,400 pharmacies with information about medications, parapharmacy products, medical equipment, and pharmacy services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pharmacy retail dispensing (medications and parapharmacy) Retail dispensing of prescription and OTC medications across categories including pain/fever, digestive, ORL, dermatology, gynecology, ophthalmology, homeopathy, and cardiovascular, plus parapharmacy ranges (face, body, hair, oral care, baby/maternity, intimate care, veterinary) for individual consumers and patients.
• Medical equipment and orthopedic supplies Sale of medical equipment including dressings, venous compression (stockings, socks, tights), orthopedic supports (ankle, knee, lumbar, cervical), adult incontinence products, syringes, gloves, mobility aids (canes, crutches, walkers), and protective masks for individual patients and home-care use.
• Pharmaceutical product search and reservation (Pharmanity-powered website) Online pharmacy portal enabling customers to search the pharmacy's product catalogue, check availability, and reserve products for click-and-collect pickup at the Echirolles storefront, powered by the Pharmanity geolocation search engine.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100,000 different products available through pharmacies
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Partner pharmacies (2,783)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPharmacies partner with Pharmanity to list their products, prices, services, and specializations on the platform. They benefit from online visibility and traffic to their physical stores without engaging in e-commerce.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationPharmanity is hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud HDS offering, with data centers geographically located in France. The cloud infrastructure supports the platform's pharmacy search and reservation services.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Doctolib: Dominant French health booking platform that has expanded into pharmacy appointment and partner services. Comparable as a broad health-services marketplace in France that connects patients to providers, including an emerging pharmacy vertical overlapping with Pharmanity's discovery use case.
• Maiia: Doctolib-owned patient-facing platform covering appointments, including pharmacy-adjacent services. Comparable as a French consumer-facing health services platform that competes for the same patient-discovery workflow that Pharmanity serves for pharmacy products and services.
• PagesJaunes Santé: Health vertical of the dominant French local business directory. Comparable as an established broader incumbent directory competing for the same French consumer-search use case around health and pharmacy providers.

Direct peers

• Livmed's: French pharmacy delivery platform partnering with neighbourhood pharmacies for at-home medication delivery. Directly comparable as a France-only pharmacy intermediary that drives demand to partner pharmacies, overlapping with Pharmanity's click-and-collect and product-discovery value proposition.
• KelDoc: French medical appointment booking platform owned by Cegedim that has expanded into wider health-services discovery. Comparable as a French health-services marketplace connecting consumers with providers, with adjacency to Pharmanity's pharmacy-discovery niche.
• La Bonne Pharmacie: French pharmacy directory offering product search, price comparison, and information on pharmacy services. Directly comparable to Pharmanity in serving French consumers searching for pharmacy products, prices, and specialised services nearby.
• Allo-Pharmacie: French pharmacy directory and product-search service. Comparable as a directly competitive geolocated pharmacy search and product-discovery platform serving French consumers and partner pharmacies.
• Pharmao: French mobile app and platform for pharmacy product reservation and click-and-collect. Direct overlap with Pharmanity's core reservation and geolocated product search features targeting the same French consumer-pharmacy connection workflow.
• Pharmacies.fr: French pharmacy directory and locator service. Directly comparable as a competing geolocated pharmacy search and directory platform in France serving similar consumer and pharmacy audiences.

Others

• Phacil (Computer Engineering): Vendor of pharmacy management and dispensing software used by French pharmacies. Comparable as an adjacent ecosystem participant enabling the technology stack of partner pharmacies that Pharmanity also serves through white-label websites.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pharmanity
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/Pharmanitycom
• Facebookfacebook.com/pharmanity
• Instagraminstagram.com/pharmanity
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/la-grande-pharmacie-d'echirolles

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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