Tamro is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 wholesaler and retailer of pharmaceuticals and is a subsidiary of the Phoenix Group. It operates wholesale throughout Northern Europe as well as retailing in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

, Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 and Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

. In Norway it owns Apokjeden

Apokjeden

Apokjeden is a Norwegian pharmacy wholesaler and retailer owned by Finnish Tamro. It owns the largest pharmacy chain in Norway, Apotek 1. The company started a cooperation with a number of pharmacists who wanted a wholesaler independent of the state owned Norsk Medisinaldepot in 1995, when most...

 which in turn owns the chain Apotek 1

Apotek 1

Apotek 1 is the largest pharmacy chain in Norway, owned by Apokjeden with more than 240 outlets in 2009. The chain was first established in 1999, but has since the deregulation in 2001 expanded massively and now has a 40% market share....

, the largest in the country with more than 240 outlets (updated 2009). In Finland, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 and Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 Tamro only performs wholesale.

Tamro's Finnish roots extend back to 1895, when four pharmacists founded a wholesale company called Tampereen Rohdoskauppayhtiö. The history of Tamro's business unit in Denmark, Nomeco A/S, starts in 1801. In 1941, under Tor Borg, son of one of the four founders Fredrik Borg, the company was renamed Tampereen Rohduskauppa Oy and expanded into national wholesale businesses. It was listed on the Helsinki Stock exchange in 1955.