LEVIS, QC, Sept. 13, 2007 – Desjardins Financial Security Life Assurance Company (DFS) and Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix have signed an agreement offering Shoppers/Pharmaprix Optimum members three days of complimentary travel insurance, effective September 8, 2007.
Shoppers Optimum members across the country will be protected under DFS’s Travel Insurance Emergency Health Care, Trip Cancellation, Accident and Baggage coverage for each trip of three days or less they take outside their home province. The coverage extends to spouses and dependent children when they are travelling with the member. They also have access to a free telephone travel assistance service available 24 hours a day to lend a hand in case they run into problems abroad. When they are travelling for more than three days, members simply extend their coverage for the entire duration of their trip by contacting Desjardins Financial Security and paying for the additional days. There is no need to activate coverage for trips of three days or less, but if the trip lasts more than three days, coverage for the entire duration must be purchased for the complimentary offer to apply.
Members can take as many three-day trips as they want.
Laila Zichmanis, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Shoppers Drug Mart, says: “As the owner of one of the most recognized and largest loyalty card programs in Canada, our alliance with Desjardins Financial Security is an opportunity for Shoppers to provide an additional service to its 7.7 million active Shoppers Optimum cardholders across the country.”
Details about the program will be available at Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix stores, by calling Desjardins Financial Security at 1-866-735-7337, and at www.shoppersdrugmart.ca/travelinsurance.
About Desjardins Financial Security:
Desjardins Financial Security, a subsidiary of Desjardins Group, the largest integrated cooperative financial group in Canada, specializes in individual and group life and health insurance, as well as retirement savings products and services. Desjardins Financial Security employs over 3,700 people and administers over $22.0 billion in assets from offices in several cities across the country, including Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Levis, Halifax, and St-John’s.
About Shoppers Drug Mart:
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. or its affiliates license full-service retail drug stores
operating under the name Shoppers Drug Mart (Pharmaprix in Qu�bec). It has more than 1,000 Shoppers Drug Mart and Pharmaprix stores operating in every province and two territories. The Company also owns and operates 60 Shoppers Home Health Care stores, making it the largest Canadian retailer of home health care products and services. In addition to its retail store network, the Company also owns MediSystem Technologies Inc., a provider of pharmaceutical products and services to long-term-care facilities in Ontario and Alberta. For more information, visit www.shoppersdrugmart.ca.
