Alliance Boots LTD
Type	Private
Founded	Alliance Boots 2006 Boots 1849 Alliance Unichem 1997
Founder	Jesse Boot - Boots Merger - Alliance UniChem
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Key people	Stefano Pessina - Executive Chairman Richard Baker - Chief Executive
Industry	Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Beauty
Products	Boots Alliance Pharmacy No 7 - Makeup Soltan - Sun cream Almus - Generic Drugs
Revenue	No Figures
Operating income	No Figures
Net income	No Figures
Employees	~100,000
Subsidiaries	Boots Alliance UniChem
Website	http://www.allianceboots.com

Alliance Boots LTD is a British based pharmaceuticals company, operating as a high street retailer, pharmacist and pharmaceuticals wholesaler. Alliance Boots is the dominant pharmacy chain in Britain with a 17% market share^[1]. Retail operations are carried out under the Boots The Chemist and Alliance Pharmacies brands^{Note 1}. Alliance Boots is also the largest pharmaceuticals wholesaler in the UK through their UniChem subsidiary with a 40% market share. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 169 × 104 pixelsFull resolution (169 × 104 pixel, file size: 5 KB, MIME type: image/png) This image is from Alliance Boots. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Alliance UniChem Plc (LSE: AUN) wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... For the sequel to the computer game Entrepreneur, which has no article of it own, see The Corporate Machine. ... The Boots Company was founded by John Boot. ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... “Chairperson” redirects here. ... Chief Executive may refer to: Chief Executive of Hong Kong Chief Executive of Macau Chief Executive Officer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A pharmaceutical company, or drug company, is a commercial business whose focus is to research, develop, market and/or distribute drugs, most commonly in the context of healthcare. ... Health care or healthcare is one of the worlds largest and fastest growing professions. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ... For the tax agency in the United Kingdom of the same name, see HM Revenue and Customs. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In business, a subsidiary is a company controlled by another company or corporation. ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ... Alliance UniChem Plc (LSE: AUN) wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A pharmaceutical company, or drug company, is a commercial business whose focus is to research, develop, market and/or distribute drugs, most commonly in the context of healthcare. ... The mortar and pestle is an international symbol of pharmacists and pharmacies. ...

As the third largest pharmacy chain in Europe, Alliance Boots employs around 100,000 staff and operates around 3,000 retail stores, around 2,700 of these have pharmacies. Around 380 depots support this retail network. Alliance Boots is headquartered in Nottingham, England. In terms of retail space, Alliance Boots ranks as one of the largest high street retailers in the UK. Nottingham is a city, unitary authority, and county town of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total...

On the 25th April 2007, Alliance Boots was approached with a buy-out offer by New York City-based Private Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, for an estimated £11billion. Alliance Boots has become the first company on the FTSE 100 share index to be bought-out by a private equity firm. (Redirected from 25th April) April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Private equity is a broad term that refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradable on a public stock market. ... Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late stage leveraged buyouts. ... “GBP” redirects here. ... One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index of 100 Leading Shares, or FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie), is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. ...

Corporate Governance

As of July 2007 the board of directors are:^[2] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

• Stefano Pessina - Executive Chairman
• Richard Baker - Chief Executive
• George Fairweather - Group Finance Director
• Ornella Barra - Wholesale and Commercial Affairs Director
• Steve Duncan - Community Pharmacy Director
• Scott Wheway - Managing Director.

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Merger History

Main article: Alliance UniChem

Main article: Boots Group

Alliance Boots was formed following the merger of a British company, Boots Group PLC, and a pan-European company, Alliance UniChem Plc. Whilst the creation of Alliance Boots was billed as a "Merger" it was technically an aquistion of Alliance Unichem PLC by the Boots Group PLC, which then renamed itself "Alliance Boots". Alliance UniChem Plc (LSE: AUN) wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ...

Alliance UniChem was formed at the end of 1997, when Alliance Santé S.A. merged with the UK company UniChem PLC to form Alliance UniChem Plc, and between 1998 and 2006, Alliance UniChem expanded into additional markets throughout Europe and Russia with a widespread program of takeovers, resulting in the company expanding and entering the FTSE 100 share index in 2002. Alliance UniChem Plc (LSE: AUN) wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. ... FTSE may stand for a number of things: FTSE 100 Index on the London Stock Exchange. ...

Alliance Santé stems from Alleanza Salute Italia, which was founded in 1977 by present Alliance Boots Executive Deputy Chairman Stefano Pessina. Through his investment vehicle Alliance Santé Participations S.A, Pessina now owns just under 15% of Alliance Boots plc (some 145,300,001 shares) together with 299,108 shares Pessina holds personally. Ornella Barra, Stefano Pessina's partner and director of Alliance Santé Participations S.A owns 559,021 shares. Taken together, the couple own 15.106% of Alliance Boots plc.

Boots The Chemists was founded in 1849 by John Boot and has remained an independent company from its inception through to the merger with Alliance UniChem. Boots has pursued unsuccessful strategies in pursuit of growth, such as locating Boots stores within larger Sainsbury’s out of town supermarkets ^[3] at one point even considering the sale of sex toys in Boots stores.^[4]. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A sex toy is a term for any object or device that is primarily used in facilitating human sexual pleasure. ...

In October of 2005 it was announced, after a short period of speculation amongst financial analysts, that Boots would merge with Alliance UniChem in a deal valuing both companies equally and said to be worth around £7 billion. ^[5]

The merger process completed without any major intervention from the Office of Fair Trading on Monday July 31, 2006, although 96 shops were sold to comply with a condition laid down by the OFT. Technically, the merger was in fact a takeover by Boots, with Boots Group PLC - the holding company of The Boots Company PLC - acquiring the entire share capital of Alliance UniChem and issuing 1.332 Boots Group PLC shares for every 1 Alliance UniChem share held.^[6] Upon completion of the process, Boots Group PLC renamed itself to Alliance Boots plc. The benefit of this process allowed The Boots Company PLC and Alliance UniChem Plc to remain intact under one parent company, and eliminating time consuming and expensive legal work which would have been necessary to merge the two companies together into one new company. The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforces both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the UKs economic regulator. ... is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Following the merger process, former Boots Group shareholders hold 50.2% of the new company, with former Alliance UniChem shareholders holding 49.8%.^[6]

Despite the Office of Fair Trading not imposing any restrictive conditions on the deal, the merger only received final approval in February 2006 after the Competition Appeal Tribunal rejected rival firm Celesio's challenge to the deal. Celesio own the Lloydspharmacy Chain. Lloydspharmacy is a pharmacy chain in the UK. It operates over 1,520 pharmacies, located primarily within local communities and health centres. ...

Operations

Alliance Boots operations are split into two areas, Retail and Wholesale.

Retail Operations

A typical Boots store in the UK

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Boots

Main article: Boots The Chemists

Interior of a Boots store

Boots The Chemists forms the backbone of Alliance Boots retail operations, with all retail outlets planned to carry the Boots brand in future.^[7] Boots has a history stretching back over 150 years and is a familiar sight on Britain's high streets. Boots is the dominant pharmacist chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 388 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) From flickr user _sarchi - http://www. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 388 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) From flickr user _sarchi - http://www. ...

Boots outlets are typically larger than those of Alliance Pharmacy, often occupying prominent high street / city centre locations. Most branches have a pharmacy (only 300 of 3000 stores do not) and focus on healthcare, personal care and cosmetic products, with most stores selling over the counter medicines, many stores also feature traditional photo processing and/or a Kodak picture kiosk where users of digital cameras and camera phones can create professional quality prints. Larger stores usually offer a range of electrical equipment such as hairdryers, curlers and foot massagers, whilst selected stores often offer a range of sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, salads and beverages. For other uses, see Cosmetic. ... medicines, see Medication. ... A piece of photographic film that has been exposed to light in a controlled manner must be developed before it can be used. ... Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is a large multinational public company producing photographic equipment. ... Categories: Stub | Hairdressing ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the food item. ...

Over the last 3 years, Boots has opened 48 larger out of town stores^[8] to compete with out of town supermarkets and electrical outlets, over the past few years, Boots have suffered intensive competition from the major supermarket chains, especially Tesco and ASDA stores featuring a pharmacy and photo processing area, and electrical retailers such as Argos and Dixons selling photographic and beauty electrical items. Tesco plc is a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. ... ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food, clothing and general merchandise products. ... Coordinates 37°37′ N 22°43′ E Country Greece Periphery Peloponnese Prefecture Argolis Province Argos Population 29,505 Area 5. ... Dixons is an electrical retailer in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and is owned by DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group). ...

Boots Healthcare - larger stores typically offer a variety of healthcare services in addition to dispensing prescriptions, such as flu vaccination, Cholesterol screening, weight loss advice, hair retention treatment, smoking cessation advice and products, and Chlamydia testing & treatment (private service). Boots is also a big player in the provision of services to Care Homes across the UK. Optician services are also offered in many larger stores, with Boots providing eye tests along with the sale of spectacles and contact lenses. Boots supplied 800,000 pairs of spectacles in 2005/2006^[9] Model of Influenza Virus from NIH The flu vaccine is a vaccine to protect against the highly variable influenza virus. ... Cholesterol is a sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a lipid found in the cell membranes of all body tissues, and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. ... Chlamydia is a common term for infection with any bacterium belonging to the phylum Chlamydiae. ... Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. ... A soft contact lens A contact lens (also known as contact, for short) is a corrective or cosmetic lens placed on the cornea of the eye atop the iris. ...

Boots has a well developed internet site www.boots.com which allows online shopping in the United States in North America, Finland, Iceland, Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania in Europe, Russia, Taiwan and Hong Kong in Asia and New Zealand in Australasia. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Thailand and Indonesia will be served by Boots online operation sometime in the future.^[10] online shopping has grown hugley as the internet has expanded. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... World map showing the location of Europe. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Australasia Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. ...

Advantage Card - billed as the most generous customer loyalty card in Britain, Boots Advantage card has 15,000,000 regular users^[11] and users earn 4 points (worth 1p each, so 4p per £1) for every £1 spent. (In Ireland, users earn 4¢ for every €1 spent). In marketing generally and in retailing more specifically, a loyalty card, rewards card, points card, or club card is a plastic card, visually similar to a credit card or debit card, that identifies the card holder as a member in a commercial incentives programme. ...

Alliance Pharmacy

Alliance Pharmacies are typically smaller shops^[12] focusing mainly on filling prescriptions, selling healthcare products and providing medical advice. Alliance Pharmacies tend to be in less prominent locations, closer to GP surgeries or located in housing estates rather than town centres, in locations more suited to the needs of those needing prescriptions and over the counter medicines. Alliance Pharmacy stores are to be re-branded to 'Your Local Boots Pharmacy', although no time frame has yet been given. ^[7]

Moss Pharmacies

E.Moss Limited was acquired by UniChem in 1991 and through 2005 was re-branded as Alliance Pharmacy. Any remaining Moss Pharmacy stores will be re-branded as Boots along with the Alliance Pharmacy stores. Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Internationally

Alliance Boots operates a further 400 pharmacies in Norway, The Netherlands, Thailand, Republic of Ireland, Italy and Switzerland (through an associate) and has a presence in various other countries such as Russia, Romania, Iceland, New Zealand, Canada and the USA through implants in other major retail partners.^[11]

Wholesale Operations

Boots Manufacturing

Boots Manufacturing is the manufacturing subsidiary of the Boots Group and manufactures a range of own brand and third party cosmetic products, including the No 7, Kangol, Toni & Guy, FCUK, Soltan and Botanics ranges of cosmetics. Some are sold through Boots outlets whilst others are sold through third party stores such as French Connection. Boots Manufacturing has plants in the UK, Germany, France and Poland. Boots Manufacturing also produces Boots, No 7 and Soltan products for sale through outlets in North America. Kangol is a English clothing company, especially famous for its headwear. ... Toni & Guy is a British hairdressing company. ... The French Connection. ... The French Connection was an infamous scheme through which the drug heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States, culminating in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it provided the vast majority of the heroin consumed in the United States. ...

UniChem

UniChem is the backbone of Alliance Boots wholesale and distribution service, with twice daily deliveries to around 5,700 pharmacy shops in the UK alone. Internationally, Alliance Boots distributes drugs and cosmetics to around 125,000 outlets and operates from 380 delivery depots. ^[11]

In addition to supplying Alliance Pharmacies, the Alliance UniChem distribution subsidiaries also deliver to NHS central warehouses and hospitals in the UK, along with private hospitals, GP surgeries, local health centres and private pharmacies throughout Europe, Asia and Australasia. A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. ...

Almus

Almus is a brand of generic prescription drugs sold throughout the Alliance UniChem sphere of operations.

Almus is an umbrella brand for the wide range of lower cost generic medicines, which by the end of 2006 will total 200 different drugs and doses. Alliance Boots has placed considerable emphasis on the design of the packaging in an attempt to reduce the number errors by the dispensing chemist and by the patient relating to incorrect dosage which can result in either a dangerous accidental overdose or an equally dangerous under dose. Almus have won numerous awards for the design of their packaging and documentation.^[13] For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Subsidiary Companies

Alliance Boots plc is the direct parent company of The Boots Company PLC and Alliance UniChem Plc, with The Boots Company PLC and Alliance UniChem Plc remaining parent companies of their respective subsidiaries. There has been no change in the structure of either company during the merger process.

Financial performance

Boots Group PLC

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Alliance UniChem Plc

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See also

• Boots Group
• Alliance UniChem

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Notes

^{Note A}Alliance Pharmacy stores will be re-branded to Boots stores.^[7]

References

External links

• Alliance Boots plc
• Corporate website of Boots
• Boots the Chemists Online
• Alliance Pharmacy
• Alliance Pharmacy - Your First Stop to Stop Smoking
• UniChem Wholesalers
• BBC News Coverage of the Merger