Alliance Boots News
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Alliance Boots Holdings Ltd., owner of the U.K.’s largest drugstore chain, said annual earnings rose 6.1 percent helped by gains from a tie-up with Walgreen Co.
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Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to buy a 45 percent stake in Alliance Boots GmbH for $6.7 billion in an attempt to create a global chain of pharmacies.
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Walgreen Co. and Alliance Boots GmbH agreed to have AmerisourceBergen Corp. handle their pharmaceutical distribution and gained the option to acquire a minority stake in the company.
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Alliance Boots GmbH, the largest U.K. drugstore chain, will buy a 12 percent stake in China’s Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. for about 56 million pounds ($91 million), it said in a statement today.
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Alliance Boots Holdings Ltd., the U.K. drugstore chain part-owned by Walgreen Co., extended the maturity of more than 5 billion pounds ($8 billion) of loans by two to three years, paving the way for the U.S. firm to acquire the entire company.
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U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its longest slump of the year, as Cypriot lawmakers’ rejection of a bank levy overshadowed data showing growth in new-home construction.
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Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to pay $6.7 billion for a 45 percent stake in the U.K.’s Alliance Boots GmbH in an attempt to create a global chain of pharmacies.
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Walgreen Co. agreed to acquire a stake in Alliance Boots GmbH because its business is mostly in the U.K., which it viewed as less risky than the rest of Europe, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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As Walgreen Co. spends $6.7 billion on a foray into Europe, a small German online pharmacy offers a reminder about the potential pitfalls.
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KKR & Co., the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, is poised to salvage a winning investment from last decade’s leveraged-buyout boom.
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