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1e5b2-gb-boots-uk-limited
BOOTS UK LIMITED
Website
https://www.boots.com
Category
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, and Druggists' Sundries
Miscellaneous General Merchandise Stores
Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores
Articles
2024-01-05 (proactiveinvestors.com)
The owner of Boots could be considering a £7 billion London listing for the high street pharmacy company, reviving exit talks two years after a planned sale...
Read more
2023-12-27 (birminghammail.co.uk)
The pharmacy giant and chemist retailer will swing the door shut on a number of sites as we head into the New Year after Christmas.
Read more
2023-11-07 (thesun.co.uk)
MAJOR health retailer Boots has announced it will close at least four of its branches in a single city – and shoppers are raging over it. The four stores are due to close in Plymouth and resi...
Read more
2023-06-28 (pharmacy.biz)
Boots UK has unveiled its plan while announcing the Q3 result on Tuesday (27 June), to close 300 stores in 'close proximity to each other' over the next year. `` Evolving the store estate in this way allows Boots to concentrate its team members where they are needed and focus investment more acutely
Read more
2022-09-06 (wwd.com)
Boots is the latest British retail giant to embrace the marketplace model with plans to launch a new online platform in spring 2023.
Read more
2022-06-09 (outlookindia.com)
If the deal goes through, it will be the largest cross-border acquisition by Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance. The consortium was in talks with global financial biggies to fund the deal, according to the report
Read more
2021-01-08 (nottinghampost.com)
Boots' parent company sold its Alliance Health business earlier this week
Read more
2021-01-07 (thepharmacist.co.uk)
WBA is selling the wholesaler arm of its business to US wholesale company AmerisourceBergen Corporation for $6.5bn
Read more
2019-04-04 (digitalcommerce360.com)
Overall, Walgreens will invest over $1 billion over the next several years in various ways to grow a retail business anchored in digital healthcare.
Read more
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