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...The UK pharmaceutical retailer’s transfer of £4.8bn of pension obligations to insurer Legal & General brings its potential sale by owner Walgreens Boots Alliance one step closer....
...Despite stronger growth in its sales, Boots is shutting 300 UK stores, the latest of a series of closures, while Walgreens is closing 150 US outlets....
...Boots will close 300 stores in the UK and a further 150 Walgreens branches in the US over the next year as parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance seeks to “optimise” locations....
...Weak performance by companies such as Coca-Cola, Target, Walgreens Boots, Dollar Tree and Dollar General are a big part of that story — and a trend worth watching, given that the strong consumer is such...
...Walgreens had hoped to use proceeds from the sale of its struggling Boots chain in the UK to fund its push into healthcare services....
...VillageMD, an affiliate of Walgreens Boots Alliance, has agreed to acquire physicians’ group and urgent care provider Summit Health in a deal valued at almost $9bn, adding to a wave of consolidation in the...
...Boots UK was thrown into uncertainty in June after its owner, the US pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance, abandoned plans to sell the UK retailer, citing a downturn in financial markets....
...Walgreens Boots Alliance has abandoned the sale process for the Boots chain in the UK after the upheaval in credit markets resulted in bids that were below its initial expectations....
...Brewer said Walgreens would continue to invest in Boots. “Our thinking is . . . the business is healthy, and we’ll continue to ensure that it remains healthy.”...
...India’s largest listed company by market value has teamed up with private equity giant Apollo to make a binding offer to US giant Walgreens Boots Alliance for the bulk of its UK business....
...The deal would allow its US parent Walgreens Boots Alliance to keep a minority stake. The size of that stake is open to negotiation. Boots declined to comment....
...Walgreens once again said that Boots had taken market share from other retailers such as supermarkets, department stores and discounters, which compete vigorously with Boots in areas such as personal goods...
...Already this year, the coffee chain Starbucks and the pharmacy group Walgreens Boots Alliance have lost shareholder votes on executive pay after ISS recommended against their bonus plans....
...He had previously held executive roles at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble....
...Boots’s US parent Walgreens Boots Alliance put the business up for sale last December to focus on healthcare in its domestic market. It has set a deadline of May 16 for bids, one of the people said....
...He previously held executive roles at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble....
...Walgreens Boots and the private equity firms all declined to comment....
...“Walgreens brought Boots down to its level, which was completely the wrong outcome.”...
...Last year, Walgreens Boots Alliance appointed Roz Brewer as chief executive, with Pessina becoming executive chair....
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...He took charge of the group in 2015, shortly after the combination of Alliance Boots and Walgreens....
...At Walgreens Boots Alliance, a pharmacy chain, the board rewrote executives’ long-term bonus plan to insulate their pay from the business upheaval caused by Covid-19....
...Formed by the 2014 merger of the US chain Walgreens with the Switzerland-domiciled Alliance Boots, the group has underperformed the market for the past five years....
...US drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen has agreed to buy the distribution business of Walgreens Boots Alliance for about $6.5bn as it pushes further into Europe....
...In the US, Dollar General outranks Walgreens Boots Alliance....
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