Kinray history

In 1975 Rahr became Kinray's owner and continued to gradually build the business, chiefly by making extra efforts to please his customers and by making sure he was at his desk each morning at 6 a.m.

Rahr expanded Kinray’s operations and moved the company to a 25,000 sq. ft. facility in Elmhurst, Queens in the early 1980's.

In 1984 he relocated to a larger and more modern distribution center, a 25,000-square-foot facility in the Elmhurst section of Queens.

The turning point came in 1993 when Rahr was seated on an airplane next to an Austrian inventor, who by chance had developed a sophisticated automated order-picking system that quickly assembled orders and sent them onto conveyor belts for packing and shipping.

In 1994 Kinray moved into a new 140,000-square-foot facility in the Whitestone section of Queens with the new order-picking system installed, coupled with a sophisticated purchasing and inventory management system.

In 1999 it reached an agreement to distribute Advanced Plant Pharmaceuticals products to more than 700 New York City–area independent pharmacies.

In 2004 he made headlines when he paid $45 million in cash for an 18,000-square-foot waterfront estate (Burnt Point) in the Hamptons of Long Island.

With 2005 sales revenue exceeding the $3.5 Billion revenue plateau, there is no question that Kinray enjoys the reputation of being the most successful privately-held distributor of pharmaceutical, generic and health & beauty care products in the world.