Boots
This coverage focuses on Boots’ operations and strategy within the UK retail and pharmacy landscape. Reporting highlights store developments, financial performance, leadership changes, healthcare initiatives, and marketing campaigns. With analysis of how Boots balances retail and health services, the insights support managers and executives evaluating its market position and strategic direction.
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May- 2018 -23 MayHealth & Beauty
Boots posts revenue and profit drop
In newly filed accounts Boots has reported a drop in both its revenues and profits for its most recent financial year. In its strategic report for the year 31 August Boots posted revenues of £6.83bn down from £6.87bn the previous year. The beauty and pharmaceutical retailer also announced pre-tax profits…
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Mar- 2018 -13 MarchGovernment
Leading retailers support plan for sustainability and equality
Over 25 leading UK retailers, including Sainsbury’s and John Lewis, have signed up to a series of pledges to tackle global challenges over the coming decades. The ‘Better Retail Better World’ scheme includes a series of stretching targets for the retail industry to achieve by 2020, and uses the United…
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9 MarchPeople Moves
New CFO appointed by Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced the appointment of James Kehoe as the company’s executive vice president and global chief financial officer, effective 1 June 2018. Kehoe’s previous role was chief financial officer and board director of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and was based in Tokyo. According to the group he is…
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Jan- 2018 -22 JanuaryPeople Moves
Dixons Carphone CEO steps down for Boots role
Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed Sebastian James as senior vice president, president and managing director of Boots. In order to take up the role James has left his position as Dixons Carphone CEO, a position he has held since 2014. James will join the Walgreens Boots Alliance this summer before…
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18 JanuaryHealth & Beauty
Boots recalls bobby pins found to contain real fur
Boots has recalled a line of bobby pins from the hair accessory brand Scunci, after they were found to be made with real fur. The true material of the pins – which were marketed being ‘fur style’ – was discovered by anti-fur campaigner Ruby Miranda, who posted images of the…
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5 JanuaryUncategorized
Walgreens Boots Alliance quarterly profit drops 22%
Walgreens Boots Alliance has posted a 22% drop in quarterly profit in the wake of the sale of some of its shares in Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals. For the quarter ending November 30, net earnings decreased 22.1% to $821m (£606m) compared with the same time last year, while sales increased 7.9 percent…
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Nov- 2017 -21 NovemberAdvice
Black Friday: Don’t forget your returns strategy
As we head towards Black Friday, retailers are once again fully focussed on what will be the biggest UK shopping period of the year. With analysts predicting that consumers will spend in excess of £7 billion over Black Friday week in 2017, retailers can be forgiven for adopting a ‘stack ‘em high and ship ‘em…
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