2025 Innovative Pharmacy Business Plan Competition
The Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) is pleased to announce its 2025 Innovative Pharmacy Business Plan Competition (IPBPC). The IPBPC seeks to provide pharmacy students with the opportunity to develop an attainable business plan for pharmacy practice. The business plan will serve as a formal set of business goals, along with the plan to reach those goals. You will be able to discuss the overall vision, marketing, financing, and operational aspects of the business, which are all described in the attached IPBPC guidelines. Finalists will have the opportunity to present the business plan during the 147th OPA Annual Conference to be held April 11-13, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio.
Your business plan may be focused on an individual pharmacy or a pharmacy service that you may foresee pharmacists providing. We invite you to be creative and explore the endless practice settings in which pharmacists can be engaged. The IPBPC will challenge you and your colleagues to create an attainable business where you may very well practice in the future.
We are excited for your enthusiasm, creativity, and desire in this competition as you and your teammates contribute to the future of your profession. For planning purposes, we ask that you notify us by December 1, 2024, of your intent to submit a business plan; please include the name and email address of the team captain and advisor, and whether the plan will be to purchase an existing pharmacy, to develop a new independent pharmacy, or to implement an innovative pharmacy service.
We welcome you to carefully read the guidelines and submit your Business Plan to OPA via email no later than February 1, 2025.