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The $4.4 Billion Grocery Chain That Still Makes Its Own Ice Cream
Brookshire Grocery Company has run stores across the Ark-La-Tex for nearly a century - baking its own bread, bottling its own milk, and betting that owning the whole supply chain beats renting it.
Giant Food
For 90 years Giant Food has run the same play in the same four zip-code clusters: know the Beltway shopper better than anyone from out of town ever could.
Humana
How a 1961 nursing-home bet in Louisville became a Medicare Advantage powerhouse - and why Humana is now buying the clinic, the pharmacy and the house call instead of just the insurance card.
CommuniCare+OLE
CommuniCare+OLE is a nonprofit network of federally qualified health centers serving Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in Northern California. Formed in 2023 by the merger of OLE Health and CommuniCare Health Centers - two organizations that both opened their doors in 1972 - it delivers comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, substance use, nutrition, optometry, and pharmacy care to more than 70,000 patients across 17 sites, regardless of insurance status, immigration status, or ability to pay.
Aumet
Aumet is a Saudi-headquartered healthtech building an AI-first procurement operating system for pharmacies, hospitals and pharmaceutical suppliers across the Middle East. The platform connects more than 12,000 pharmacies with 1,000+ suppliers and processes roughly $1B in annual gross merchandise value.
Plenful
Plenful is a San Francisco-based AI workflow automation company building software that takes the busywork out of pharmacy and healthcare operations. Founded in 2021 by former pharmacy operator Joy Liu, the company helps health systems, specialty pharmacies, and infusion teams automate 340B audits, rebate management, prior authorization, and patient intake - work that has long been trapped in PDFs, faxes, and spreadsheets.