The Verrocchi family story will be as well known to readers of the Financial Review as the red and yellow branding on its Chemist Warehouse shopfronts.
To recap: family patriarch and Financial Review Rich Lister Mario Verrocchi, a pharmacist who trained under Sam and Jack Gance in the 1980s, started the discount pharmacy with the pair in 2000. The company’s merger with ASX-listed Sigma Healthcare in 2025 formed a $34 billion giant, and made billionaires out of the Gances, Verrocchi and his brothers, Marcello and Adrian.
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