Express RX, a chain of pharmacies, will put its corporate headquarters and 24 jobs in Little Rock in a planned national expansion, politicians and Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce officials announced this afternoon.
The company was started in 2013 by former USA Drug executives with a pharmacy in Miami, Okla., and has expanded with seed capital from Franklin McLarty, who has Little Rock roots. Its website currently shows eight stores in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. It also has joined to purchase 10 former Fred’s Pharmacies in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The company website emphasizes fast service, including online ordering, free deliver and drive-through. The company bought the compounding business of Cantrell Pharmacy in Little Rock in 2016. USA Drug was an Arkansas-based company that sold to Walgreen’s in 2012.