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J M Smith Corporation developed out of the vision of one family and the hard work and dedication of many others.

In 1925, James M. Smith, Sr. opened a small pharmacy in Asheville, North Carolina. Over the next two decades, Smith established 16 other pharmacies throughout the Carolinas and Georgia.

At the end of 1943, Mr. J M Smith, Sr. established the Smith Drug Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He then progressively began exiting the retail drug store business as he further grew and expanded with wholesale drug distribution. He passed away suddenly in late 1951.

His sons, Jim Smith and Henry Dale Smith, continued to operate and grow the business. Jim Smith, an engineer and a pharmacist, had a passionate interest in automation. From mainframe and then into smaller computers, the data processing entity flourished. Jim Smith's visionary leadership laid most of the groundwork for what would become one of the largest and most successful privately held corporations in South Carolina.

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Today, the J M Smith Corporation consists of 4 divisions and 2 business entities in the healthcare industry:

Smith Drug Company, Smith Premier Services, QS/1, Integral Solutions Group, RxMedic and Norgenix Pharmaceuticals.

  • Smith Drug Company
  • Smith Premier Services
  • QS/1
  • Integral Solutions Group
  • RxMedic
  • Norgenix Pharmaceuticals

  • Smith Drug Company, the first founded business in the J M Smith Corporation, is listed among one of the top 10 wholesale drug companies in the United States.

    The company supplies independent, locally owned pharmacies with pharmaceutical products, health and beauty aids and home medical equipment throughout South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida and Texas.

  • Founded in 1977, QS/1 was developed with one simple focus in mind. Jim Smith believed that pharmacists needed a computer system to help manage their practice. He and several other J M Smith programmers set out to accomplish this task.

    Years later, QS/1 remains at the forefront of technology developed for the health care industry. Over 500 dedicated employees manage development, support and marketing for all products including NRx, SystemOne, Point-of-Sale, PrimeCare, CornerDrugstore.com and IVR.

  • Smith Premier Services, founded in 1997, provides a full range of prescription-related services which include:

    Disease management, compliance programs, insurance claim adjudication and analysis, as well as drug utilization reviews for employers and insurance carriers.

  • Established as J M Smith Corporation’s newest company in 2004, Integral Solutions Group is a result of a merger between three similar businesses: Integral Technical Services, QS/1 Network Solutions Group and Smith Data Processing Forms and Supplies.

    Integral Solutions Group provides network and cabling services to businesses, government offices and school systems as well as medical forms and supplies to customers.

  • RxMedic provides pharmacies with leading-edge dispensing technology.

    RxMedic offers the Automated Dispensing System (ADS) and Automated Counting System (ACS), which give pharmacists and their staff the ability to meet increasing prescription demands with speed and accuracy.

  • Norgenix Pharmaceuticals, LLC, maintains a specialty marketing focus in the area of men's and women's health.

    The goal of Norgenix is the acquisition of innovative therapies and devices that solve the problems of unmet medical needs.