One family.
Four generations.
One place.
Anklin Apotheke has been part of Cham since 1919, and at Poststrasse 3 since 1923. Everything else has changed since then, repeatedly and on purpose.




Advice is not a service you do on the side.

New again and again.
Still us.
What has changed in a good hundred years, and what has stayed.


Joseph Alphons Anklin took over the business in the Haus Merkur on Rabenplatz. The first customer paid Fr. 1.35 for a preparation on 12 September.

Four years after opening, the pharmacy moves to its present address, and stays.

First Alfons junior, from 1977 Rolf. Until 1995 everything was written into the prescription books by hand.

A storage robot now fetches what someone used to look for in the cellar. On top of that the pick-up terminal around the clock and two rooms where you can close the door.
To the pick-up terminal
There has always been an own brand here.
Following his grandfather's recipes, Rolf Anklin mixed a skin cream and filled it into 50 gram tins, for hands worn out by winter. Our own brand today is the same principle by other means: care from the pharmacy, without the cost of the advertising behind it.
To the own brandA team that knows you.
Twelve people, one location. Four of them are in training with us, and people who learn here often stay.
See open positions- TRTamara Ringger · Managing director, pharmacy technician
- MAMichael Anklin · Managing director, IT and finance
- EWEdyta Wlodarczyk · Managing director, responsible pharmacist
- CMChristine Moser · Pharmacist, for over thirteen years
- LMLivia Meier · Pharmacist, training as an FPH specialist pharmacist
- OWOlha Würthinger · Managing director of Anklin Apotheke Services
- SCSandra Confortola · Pharmacy technician
- NSNatalja Schäfer · Blister packing specialist
- FQFrancesco Quattrone · Pharmacy technician, in training
- MSMilla da Silva · Pharmacy technician, in training
- SBSandra Bucher · Pharmacy technician, in training
- LGLarina Greter · Pharmacy technician, in training
Advice from trained specialists.
Schuessler salts according to Dr Schuessler, advised on with completed training rather than recommended off the shelf.
With the recognised training of the Bach Centre as a Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner (BFRP). The personal mixture comes out of the conversation, not off a list.
What you can rely on.
No chain of branches, no head office making the decisions. Poststrasse 3 has been the only location since 1923, and the people behind it stay.
The blister packing area works to documented standards: every batch checked, every step logged, every change traceable.
Nobody here gets anything for recommending a particular preparation. That is why you will also hear us say that you should keep your money.
Member of pharmaSuisse, the Swiss Pharmacists Association. Cantonal operating licence from the Health Directorate of Zug.
We look forward to seeing you.
Come by, have a look around and get to know us.