Business View Magazine l January 2023

243 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 return during Christmas and summer breaks to continue to learn and keep their skills fresh. Nakoa says that succession planning has paid off. “I would say we have maybe about 30 percent of our colleagues that have been with us more than 10 years, and then we have a good number of colleagues that have been with us 20 plus years.” “Our pharmacy managers, I would say more than 60 percent of them have worked with us as a technician at one time or another or have a family member or a parent that has worked at Longs and they decided to go to pharmacy school because of the impact Longs had. Our front store managers were all clerks with us at one time,” Nakoa adds. Nakoa adds that a great deal of that advancement is because of their company culture which promotes Ohana, that family atmosphere, and it’s Hard Work Behaviors. LONGS DRUGS (CVS HAWAI I )