The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Philippine pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City.[5] The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945.[1] As of 2017, Mercury Drug has over 1,000 branches nationwide and over 50 percent of the Philippine pharmaceutical retail market.
History
The company began on March 1, 1945,[1] with a single drugstore along Bambang Street, Santa Cruz, Manila owned by Mariano Que (d. April 15, 2017).[2][6] He named it after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology