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Boots UK is the UK's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. Alliance Boots is also the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK through its Alliance Healthcare (Distribution) Ltd business. The company employs over 120,000 staff and operates more than 4,600 retail stores, of which just over 4,450 have pharmacies.
The parent company, The Boots Company plc, merged with Alliance UniChem in 2006 to form Alliance Boots. [2] In 2007, Alliance Boots was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stefano Pessina, taking the company private, and moving its headquarters to Switzerland, making it the first-ever FTSE 100 company to be bought by a private equity firm. [3]
On June 26, 2018, Walgreens Boots Alliance replaced General Electric on the Dow Jones Industrial Index. [9] [10] Walgreens Boots Alliance was subsequently replaced by Amazon on the Dow Jones Industrial Index on February 26, 2024. The company is also a component of the S&P 500 index; it was formerly a Nasdaq-100 company until 2024.
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By 1926, John Boot had bought back the company and in 1927, renamed the Boots Pure Drug Company, it purchased a new 200-acre (81 ha) site at Beeston, outside of Nottingham, which became the Boots Factory Site. [3] Work began immediately and Owen Williams, an architect and engineer, was engaged to design a range of buildings on the site.
The office is a “much more fun and inspiring place” with everyone in attendance, Boots’ CEO Sebastian James told his workforce last week as he demanded they return to the old ways of working ...
In the 1950s, the company began marketing its boots nationally. [5] In 1961, nearly 50 years after the first store opened, the company moved into larger quarters and began making 750 pairs of boots a day. By the late 1960s, the company moved to a new factory on El Paso's east side. In 1990, Tony Lama Boots was sold to Justin Industries. [6]
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