OCTOBER 2026
CENTRAL LONDON
The Pharmacy Business Awards were presented by Kalpesh Solanki, Group Managing Editor, and Shailesh Solanki, Executive Editor of Pharmacy Business, and Stephen Kinnock MP, Minister of State for Care at the Department of Health and Social Care.
WINNER: Sunil Chandarana, May & Thomson Pharmacy, Woking, Surrey
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Sunil Chandarana and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Sukhi Basra, Independent Prescriber, Clinichem Pharmacy, Pimlico, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Mohammed Khalid Al-Doori, Manaigng Director at Crescent Pharma, Sukhi Basra and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: TrustMed Pharmacy (a subsidiary of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust)
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Philip Kielthy, Managing Director and Superintendent Pharmacist with his team and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Jasmeet Hothi, Trainee Pharmacist, Day Lewis, North Kilburn
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Diane DiGangi Trench, Country Head UK & Ireland at Sandoz, Jasmeet Hothi and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Muhammad Shuaib, Biddulph Pharmacy, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Paula Sutherland, Sales Director at Cencora Alliance Healthcare, Muhammad Shuaib and his team and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Northwood Dispensing Chemists Ltd T/A The Whitehouse Pharmacy, Staffordshire
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Khalid Janjua, Senior Customer Business Manager at Haleon, Carol Northwood and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Daniella Fakhouri, LIPS Pharmacy, Battersea, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Professor Harry McQuillan, Chairman of Numark, Daniella Fakhouri and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Pearl Chemist Group, Tooting, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Santosh Singh, Business Head UK at Wockhardt, Pearl Group’s Mitan Katalia, Operations Manager, Director of Operations at Pearl Chemist Group and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Rahaf Kanj, Practice Manager, Asda Pharmacy Park Royal
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Rahaf Kanj and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Sehar Shahid, Director, Independent Prescriber, 24HR Pharmacy
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Preetham Sharma, Managing Director, Brown & Burk, Sehar Shahid and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Bruntsfield Pharmacy & Travel and Health Clinic, Bruntsfield, Edinburgh
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Ather Diab, Farhad Mehmood, Adam Hopkin, Travel Vaccines Senior Marketing Manager at Takeda and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Ayman El Melali, Mitcham Pharmacy, Mitcham, Surrey
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Alan Thorley, Head of Wholesale, Ather Diab, Abimbola Alaba, Nour El Melali and Kalpesh Solanki
Unfortunately, Ayman could not attend the awards. Abimbola Alaba, Managing Director at Mitcham Healthcare, and Ayman’s sister, Nour El Melali, who is also a pharmacy assistant at Mitcham Pharmacy, collected the award on his behalf.
WINNER: Amerjit Singh, Owner, Skills4Pharmacy, Preston
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Dr Rajanaresh Adithan, Head – EU & UK Business at Cipla, Amerjit Singh and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Anish Patel, Director & Superintendent Pharmacist, Benjamin Chemist, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Daniel Hughes, Business Unit Director – Oncology at Aspire Pharma, Anish Patel and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Simon Harris, Cadbury Heath Pharmacy & Health Clinic, Bristol
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Yunus Shafi, Senior Vice President-Finance at Bristol Labs, Simon Harris and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Jasvinder Kaur Lali, Cornerstone Pharmacy, Cambridgeshire
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Eleanor Dunne, Associate Director, Strategic Accounts at Teva, Jasvinder Kaur Lali, Managers at Cornerstone Pharmacy Hannah Budden and Louise Marper and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Babatunde Akomolafe, Christchurch Pharmacy, Braintree, Essex
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Dr Dupe Akomolafe, Jeremy Meader, Chief Wholesale Officer at Bestway MedHub and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Olive Yamdjeu, Fairoak Pharmacy, Streatham, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Olive Yamdjeu, Brian Chambers, Chief Commercial Officer of AAH and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Samson Akere, Totty Pharmacy, Greenwich, London
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Rajiv Shah, Executive Director of Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc, Samson Akere and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Cencora Alliance Healthcare
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Dipak Ghelani, CEO of Ascot Laboratories , Paula Sutherland, Sales Director at Cencora Alliance Healthcare and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Peter Cattee, CEO, Peak Pharmacy
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Peter Cattee, Stephen Kinnock MP and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Teva
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Stephen Kinnock MP, Eleanor Dunne, Associate Director, Strategic Accounts at Teva and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Haleon
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Stephen Kinnock MP, Mike Durkin, Sales Director at Haleon and Kalpesh Solanki
WINNER: Nicorette, Kenvue
From left: Shailesh Solanki, Kenvue team with Stephen Kinnock MP and Kalpesh Solanki
