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Alliance Boots is aiming for global growth

20.11.09
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina today outlined plans to expand the Boots brand around the world... more

Boots rise sees Hornby bounce back from HBOS

03.11.09
Andy Hornby might have looked out of his depth as a banker, but his strengths as a retailer have seldom been in doubt ... more

Premier feels the pinch

07.09.09
Whitbread dismissed talk that the economy is recovering as it unveiled a slump in sales at its budget hotel chain Premier Inn ... more

Comment: Gloves off as the mega-deal returns

07.09.09
There was a buzz in the City this morning, the like of which we’ve not experienced for the best part of two years. That was when Alliance UniChem, led by Stefano Pessina, paid £12 billion for Boots ... more

The fallen HBOS chief who landed on his feet at Boots

10.06.09
Andy Hornby is sitting in a Starbucks. At 42, he's just been made chief executive of one of our biggest, best-known businesses, Alliance Boots. But he's not wreathed in smiles and high-fiving it over the lattes ... more

Hornby a good fit for Boots — if Pessina allows it

08.06.09
When Boots was taken over by Stefano Pessina’s Alliance group, I irritated Richard Baker, the then Boots chief executive, when I said I did not expect him to last six months under the new regime. He disagreed and he was right; he lasted about a year. In the end though, he decided the company was not big enough to have a hands-on executive chairman in Pessina, and still leave a proper job for the chief executive ... more

‘Miracle cream’ helps Boots look good at £1.2bn

18.05.09
An anti-ageing cream hailed by some as a miracle cure for wrinkles helped trigger a recession-busting boost to profits at Boots the Chemists.... more

Worst loss at Ford, but no tow needed

29.01.09
Retail: Alliance Boots stepped up its acquisition spree, taking a controlling stake in high street optician Dollond & Aitchison... more

Oh no! CBI's big pow-wow clashes with Pre-Budget

20.11.08
A nightmare for the CBI - the organisers of its annual conference have discovered that their event has a terrible diary clash... more

Retail

08.10.08
These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

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08.10.08
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Boots' man on a mission may just be the real deal

10.06.08
Private-equity billionaire Stefano Pessina talks about need to 'nurture' the high street chemist... more

Buy spree of billions as Boots thinks big

10.06.08
Chemist ready to spend billions on acquisitions to turn it into a European healthcare giant... more

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