Longs Drugs
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Longs Drugs | |
Type | Public (NYSE: LDG) |
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Founded | 1938 (Oakland, California) |
Headquarters | Walnut Creek, California, USA |
Key people | Warren Bryant, President, Chairman & CEO |
Industry | Pharmacy |
Products | Retail-Pharmacy-Photo |
Revenue | $4.62 billion USD (FY 2006) |
Employees | approx. 22,000 |
Website | longs.com |
Longs Drugs (NYSE: LDG) is a pharmacy chain store located in the West Coast of the United States. It was founded in 1938 by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), with their first store in Oakland, California. Longs Drugs currently has over 400 stores located in California, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, and Hawaii; and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
[edit] Longs in popular culture
Although a California-based company, Longs has maintained stores in Hawaii long enough to become a local establishment. Its first Hawaii store, in downtown Honolulu, opened March 29, 1954.[1] In 2005, Honolulu Advertiser columnist Lee Cataluna published a short-story collection, Folks You Meet in Longs, and Other Stories [2] It is based on Cataluna's eponymous play which premiered August 2003 at Kumu Kahua Theater [3].