All Alliance Boots articles – Page 18
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Alliance Boots to reinvest profits
Alliance Boots’ backers have vowed not to take any cash out of the business for at least two years as they plough profits back into the retail and wholesale company’s growth plans.
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AnalysisIrish charm
A friendly business culture and a free rein have made Rhys Iley’s directorship of Boots Ireland a refreshing change. He tells Charlotte Dennis-Jones what’s different on the Emerald Isle
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Alliance Boots to unleash potential of power brands
Health and beauty market leader Alliance Boots is to establish a brands division to unleash the massive potential of its proprietary products in the UK and overseas.
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Bankers agree deal to offload Alliance Boots’ debt
KKR-owned Alliance Boots’ bankers are understood to have reached an agreement in principle to sell at least 2 billion of the health and beauty chain’s debt to a private equity consortium comprising Apollo, Blackstone and TPG.
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Boots’ Pessina vows to accelerate growth
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina has pledged to ramp up earnings by at least 10 per cent a year while he runs the business.
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Health professional
Eight months ago, Boots UK stores director Simon Roberts took on the job of integrating 2,300 Boots and Alliance stores. Jennifer Creevy finds out how he’s getting on
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Boots to integrate its Alliance store estate
Alliance Boots has restructured its UK and Ireland store estate to integrate 900 Alliance Pharmacy shops into the Boots portfolio.
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Alliance Boots snaps up duo to fortify marketing
Health and beauty giant Alliance Boots has strengthened its marketing team for Boots with two appointments.
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RWC08: Pessina puts Europe at heart of Alliance Boots strategy
In a wide-ranging speech at the Retail Week Conference in London today, Stefano Pessina, executive chairman of Alliance Boots, said that rolling out the Boots brand and name across Europe, as well as improving the store portfolio in the UK, would be at the core of the retailer’s strategy.
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Alliance Boots launches Chinese joint venture
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina confirmed his commitment to becoming a global leader at a celebratory ceremony for the retailer’s joint venture in China.
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Alliance Boots seals China partnership
Alliance Boots has completed the formation of its joint-venture company in China, Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation (GP Corp), for approximately 41 million.
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AnalysisThe end of the affair?
The City has fallen out of love with retail, as share prices tumble on the back of disappointing Christmas trading. George MacDonald asks whether it is a trial separation or a case for divorce
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Alliance Pharmacy controls cost of labour with scheduling system
Alliance Pharmacy has implemented a labour-scheduling system designed in partnership with Retail Answers.
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Where’s the festive spirit?
Running a first-class store operation during the Christmas period is a challenge. Charlotte Dennis-Jones takes a walk down Oxford Street with Itim Consulting partner Simon Puryerto give their verdict on which retailers are holding up best under the festive pressure this year
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Desperately seeking chairman
Controversial store group Sports Direct has been having trouble finding a chairman, so Retail Week has turned headhunter in a bid to help out. George MacDonald compiles our shortlist of 10 candidates with the skills for the most challenging role in the industry. Over to you, Mr Ashley…
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Richard Baker quits Boots, Stefano Pessina becomes executive chairman
Alliance Boots chief executive Richard Baker has quit the health and beauty giant, after a management shake-up following its takeover by private equity giant KKR last month.