page_title: AAH Pharmaceuticals
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: AAH Pharmaceuticals / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: A lorry belonging to AAH Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth in 2010
context_page_description: AAH is a pharmaceutical wholesaler in the United Kingdom. Originally formed in 1892 as a company selling solid fuels in South Wales, it was floated on the stock exchange in 1923. It diversified into pharmaceuticals in the 1970s, and since 1995 it has been a subsidiary of the German company Celesio AG.
context_section_description: The head office is situated off the A4600 (former A46) south of junction 2 (M69) of the M6 in the north of Coventry on the Coventry Walsgrave Triangle.
  It has 19 depots around the UK including locations in Belfast, Glasgow, and Sussex.
  AAH is among those companies that worked for many years without a management-endorsed mission statement.  By the 2000s, management had composed and published a mission statement that began "We are the UK's leading distributor or pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors."
caption: A lorry belonging to AAH Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth in 2010.
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