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| Boots the Chemists Limited (1968{{endash}}2007)<ref name="CompaniesHouse">{{Cite web |date=1968-03-11 |title=Boots UK Limited overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00928555 |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=[[Companies House]] |language=en}}</ref>
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'''Boots UK Limited'''
The parent company, The Boots Company plc, merged with [[Alliance Healthcare|Alliance UniChem]] in 2006 to form [[Alliance Boots]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Alliance UniChem Plc and Boots Group PLC merger archive {{!}} Walgreens Boots Alliance|url = http://investor.walgreensbootsalliance.com/mergerArchive.cfm|website = investor.walgreensbootsalliance.com|access-date = 28 December 2015}}</ref> In 2007, Alliance Boots was bought by [[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts]] and [[Stefano Pessina]], taking the company private, and moving its headquarters to [[Switzerland]], making it the first-ever [[FTSE 100 Index|FTSE 100]] company to be bought by a [[private equity]] firm.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=Alliance Boots takeover approved|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6708245.stm|access-date=1 August 2014|work=BBC|date=31 May 2007}}</ref> In 2012, [[Walgreens]] bought a 45% stake in Alliance Boots, with the option to buy the rest within three years. It exercised this option in 2014, and as a result Boots became a subsidiary of the new company, [[Walgreens Boots Alliance]], on 31 December 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-walgreen-completes-merger-0101-biz-20141231-story.html|title=Walgreen-Alliance Boots deal is complete|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|last=Jean|first=Ellen Hirst|date=31 December 2014|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref>
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