All Walgreens Boots Alliance articles – Page 6
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NewsBreakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco, the Booker Group and Walgreens
Retail news round-up on April 4, 2014: Booker Group sees sales soar, Tesco finance boss may leave, High Street outperforms retail parks, Walgreens sales grow 3.5%
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News
Alliance Boots and Walgreens first half 'synergies' exceed expectations
Alliance Boots’ tie-up with Walgreens created savings above expectations of $236m (£143m) in the six months to February 28, 2014.
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Gallery
Store gallery: San Francisco’s standout stores
San Francisco is home to weird and wonderful food stores, Westfield’s innovation centre and plenty of No7 products. John Ryan visits
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News
Alliance Boots hires Walgreens veteran Richard Ashworth
Alliance Boots has drafted in Walgreens veteran Richard Ashworth as a director in a bid to build on its vision of creating a “global leader in pharmacy and health retailing”.
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Analysis
Analysis: J Crew chairman Mickey Drexler profiled
Having been involved in some of the greatest US retail success stories of the past three decades, the indomitable American is now bringing J Crew to the UK.
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Analysis
Analysis: Walgreens executive vice president Alex Gourlay profiled
Alex Gourlay, the Boots lifer is making the jump across the pond to take on customer service at US partner Walgreens as its executive vice-president. Retail Week profiles the former Alliance Boots chief executive of health and beauty.
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Analysis
International analysis: Are Alliance Boots and Walgreens a good match?
News that Walgreens has introduced Boots’ No7 men’s skincare products across its estate in the US marks a step closer towards an exchange of marriage vows between the two health and beauty giants.
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News
Boots full year profits soar despite sales fall
Alliance Boots has reported a 6.1% increase in trading profit to £1.27bn despite a 2.6% fall in revenue to £22.4bn during what executive chairman Stefano Pessina dubbed a “transformational year”.
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News
Walgreens and Alliance Boots strike deal with pharmaceutical distributor
Walgreens and Alliance Boots have a signed a 10-year buying deal with North American pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen to increase the three companies’ economies of scale in wholesaling.
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News
Alliance Boots to extend loan facilities
Retail and pharmaceuticals giant Alliance Boots is preparing to extend the maturity dates on existing loan facilities to facilitate its likely full merger with US drugstore powerhouse Walgreens.
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News
Walgreens to close 76 USA Drug-affiliated stores
Walgreens is to close its 76 USA Drug-affiliated stores by November as part of its acquisition of LaFrance Pharmacy. The closures will be in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. The programme comes after Walgreens announced the $438m (£269.9m) LaFrance acquisition in July. Walgreens spokesman Jim Graham said: “Our decisions about store ...
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News
Boots strikes food deal with Musgrave
Boots has launched its new healthy and convenient food offer in stores today, in partnership with Irish food retail giant Musgrave. The range includes meat, fish and ready meals as well as in-store delis.
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Analysis
Technology: Retailers must share innovation with customers
Walgreens this week announced that it has become the first national retailer to maps its stores in a mobile app. That would certainly be good, were it not for the fact that it’s unlikely many of Walgreens’ customers will ever know about this.
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Opinion
A good merger’s like a good marriage
Transatlantic miles of column inches have been inspired by the recently announced merger of Alliance Boots and Walgreens.
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News
Drugstore group Walgreens reports sales decline
Drugstore group Walgreens reported that sales declined 3.4% to $17.8bn (£11.4bn) for the third quarter ended May 31. Net earnings fell by 10.8% to $537m (£345m), impacted by the retailer no longer being part of the Express Scripts pharmacy provider network, as well as costs associated with entering into a ...
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Analysis
Transatlantic tie-up creates healthy future for Alliance Boots
Stefano Pessina of Alliance Boots and Gregory Wasson of Walgreens tell Tiffany Holland about their plans to create a strong global partnership.
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News
Walgreens' share price falls on concern about Alliance Boots deal
Shares in Walgreens have fallen 10% since the merger with Alliance Boots was revealed on Tuesday.
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News
Boots to lead innovation after Walgreens buys in
Boots pledges its Nottingham home will be key hub for research and development following the retailer’s landmark deal with US giant Walgreens.
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Pessina: Walgreens deal will not mean job cuts at Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina has insisted there will not be job cuts as a result of the merger with US pharmaceuticals giant Walgreens.
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Analysis
In numbers: Alliance Boots' new partner Walgreens
The US giant, which is teaming up with European counterpart Alliance Boots, is the clear market leader in pharmacy in its homeland. Retail Week takes a look at the retailer’s key financial data.
