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An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
Alshaya Group (also called the M. H. Alshaya Co.) is a multinational retail franchise operator headquartered in Kuwait. [1] It operates nearly 70 consumer retail brands across the Middle East and North Africa, Türkiye, and Europe. [ 2 ]
Today, there are Boots branded stores in several countries including the UK, Norway, Ireland, The Netherlands, Thailand, as well as the Middle East. Much of the Irish chain was acquired by purchasing Hayes Conyngham Robinson in 1998, [ 13 ] although Boots had been present in Ireland prior to this.
Al Futtaim Motors: Established by the group in 1955, it is the exclusive distributor of Toyota, Lexus, Hino trucks and Toyota Material Handling equipment in the UAE. [12] Robinsons & Co.: In April 2008, the Al-Futtaim Group bought 88% of the shares of Robinsons & Co. at S$7.20 per share. [13] [14]
Dr Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty, (born 1 August 1942) commonly known as B.R. Shetty, is an Indian-born businessman and former billionaire, the founder and acquirer of a number of companies based in the United Arab Emirates, including Abu Dhabi–based NMC Health, [1] [2] Neopharma, BRS Ventures, and Finablr.
Al Tayer Group (Arabic: مجموعة الطاير) is a privately held holding company established in 1979. [1] [2] Currently, the group operates in 6 countries in the Middle East, including nearly 200 stores and 23 showrooms in multiple markets in the Middle East.
In September 2014, Mothercare made a nine-for-ten rights issue at 125p per share, a discount of 34.2 per cent to the then current share price, in order to raise £95m net of expenses, to be used to pay off £40 million in loans. [18]
Eid Al Etihad [2] (Arabic: عيد الاتحاد), also known as UAE National Day (Arabic: اليوم الوطني; Al Yawm Al Watani"), is celebrated annually on 2 December to celebrate the unification of the United Arab Emirates. [3]