The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Filipino pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City. The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945, making it the second oldest drugstore chain in the Philippines after Southstar Drug. As of 2017, Mercury Drug has over 1,000 branches nationwide and over 50 percent of the Philippine pharmaceutical retail market. The company began on March 1, 1945, with a single drugstore along Bambang Street, Santa Cruz, Manila owned by Mariano Que (d. (2017-04-15)April 15, 2017). He named it after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, whose caduceus wand is sometimes used as a symbol of medicine, as well as the element of the same name and the closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System. The logo was designed by Alfredo Medinaceli Cabrera. By 1948, the company has established a delivery system. More information...
According to PR-model, mercurydrug.com is ranked 294,558th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 165,249th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before eldiadeescobar.com.ar and after fringebloggers.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
