Alliance boots
| Alliance Boots GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | July 31, 2006 |
| Seat | Bern , Switzerland |
| management | Francis Standish (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Number of employees | 102,754 (2013/14) |
| sales | £ 23.4 billion (2013/14) |
| Branch | pharmacy |
| Website | www.allianceboots.com |
Alliance Boots is a Swiss chemical and health company and one of the most important pharmaceutical wholesalers in Europe with legal headquarters in Bern and operational headquarters in Nottingham . The company is a subsidiary of Walgreens Boots Alliance .
about the company
Alliance Boots got its company name through the merger of Boots the Chemists and Alliance UniChem after the merger was completed on July 31, 2006. Previously, the name of the group was Boots Group plc. Strictly speaking, Boots Group plc. currently Alliance UniChem plc. The group markets medical products under the brand name "Boots" and owns Alliance Pharmacy , a chemical company and wholesaler of pharmaceutical products with over 1000 sales outlets. For tax reasons, the company has its legal seat in Switzerland .
It is planned to conduct all of the Group's business under the brand name Boots in the future. Alliance Boots is the largest pharmaceutical company in the UK and also has sales chains, equity holdings and joint ventures in 21 countries. Fiscal 2012/13 profit (after tax): £ 805m . In the 2013/14 financial year, net income was £ 888 million. In addition to pharmaceuticals, Alliance Boots also sells cosmetics with its own brand names Soltan , No7 and Botanics . In addition to this additional offer for pharmacies, Alliance Boots has also entered the production of generics , which are sold under the brand name Almus .
Long-standing board member in the 1970s was Gordon Hobday , who was previously research director (under his leadership, the blockbuster ibuprofen was found at Boots in 1963 ).
structure
Alliance Boots divides its operating business into two divisions
- Pharmacies and drug stores (Pharmacy led Health and Beauty Retailing)
Direct or indirect sales presence in 11 countries with a total of more than 3280 sales outlets, of which just under 3180 also include a pharmacy. The same division also manages the 655 UK opticians .
- Pharmaceutical Wholesaling and Distribution
Boots operates 370 distribution centers in 21 countries, making it the largest Pharmzie wholesaler in Europe. Typically, Alliance Boots ranks among the three largest wholesalers in each country.
growth
By buying up shares in Andreae-Noris Zahn AG (ANZAG) at the end of 2010, which were previously owned by Celesio, Sanacorp and Phoenix, Alliance Boots became the majority owner of around 82% of the shares in Germany's third largest pharmaceutical wholesaler. In the same year (2010/11) the group expanded into Turkey through a majority stake in Hedef Alliance, the country's largest pharmaceutical wholesaler. Since June 2012 she has owned more than 95% of the ANZAG shares. On December 18, 2012, the last general meeting of ANZAG resolved the squeeze-out procedure for the remaining shareholders. On April 1, 2013, ANZAG was renamed Alliance Healthcare Germany .
Takeover by KKR and Stefano Pessina
Alliance Boots was listed on the London Stock Exchange until the end of April 2007 and was part of the FTSE 100 until it was taken over by a consortium consisting of the private equity investor KKR and Stefano Pessina , a member of the founding family of Alliance UniChem and former CEO of the company, the jointly invested the equivalent of 16.2 billion euros.
Takeover by Walgreens
In August 2014 it was announced that the US pharmaceutical company Walgreens would take over Alliance Boots completely. In February 2012, Walgreens took over 45 percent of the shares for 6.7 billion US dollars from the previous owners KKR and Stefano Pessina. Walgreens pays $ 5.29 billion for the remaining shares. The company that will be created after the merger with annual sales of over USD 130 billion is to be called the Walgreens Boots Alliance and is based in Deerfield , Illinois , in the USA . 180,000 pharmacies with over 370 distribution centers in 20 countries are supplied; around 12,400 pharmacies are operated by the group itself. Stefano Pessina is to become the largest single shareholder in the new company with 16 percent.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to HR
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2013/14 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f Alliance Boots Annual Report April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011
- ↑ pharmaceutical newspaper
- ↑ Walgreens Boots Alliance ( Memento from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Walgreens swallows Swiss pharmaceutical dealers