NAICS code 456110: Pharmacies and Drug Retailers

NAICS 456110 is “Pharmacies and Drug Retailers”. This industry comprises establishments generally known as pharmacies and drug retailers engaged in retailing prescription or nonprescription drugs and medicines.

Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: Apothecaries; Drug stores; Institutional pharmacies, off-site, exclusively on Internet; Institutional pharmacies, off-site, mail-order; Institutional pharmacies, on-site; and Pharmacies.

Businesses mainly retailing food supplement products, such as vitamins, nutrition supplements, and body enhancing supplements are classified in U.S. Industry 456191, Food (Health) Supplement Retailers; and providing pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services are classified in U.S. Industry 524292, Pharmacy Benefit Management and Other Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds.

$37.5 million average annual receipts (average of the last five fiscal years), including affiliates. Source: 13 CFR 121.201, effective March 17, 2023.

SIC codes 5912 (Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores), 5122 (Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, and Druggists’ Sundries, part), 5142 (Packaged Frozen Foods, part), 5411 (Grocery Stores, part), 5421 (Meat and Fish, part), 5431 (Fruit and Vegetable Markets, part), 5961 (Catalog and Mail-Order Houses, part) and 5963 (Direct Selling Establishments, part), from the U.S. Census Bureau concordances (1987 SIC → 2002 NAICS, carried to 2022 NAICS).

456110 (Pharmacies & drug retailers) on Schedule C, line B, from the IRS list of principal business codes.

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