Company
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
Headquarters: Deerfield, IL, United States
Founded: December 31, 2014
Employees: 202,000
CEO: Ms. Rosalind Gates Brewer
Market Cap
$9.58 Billion
USD as of July 1, 2024
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Categories
United States Healthcare Pharmaceutical RetailersUnited States Healthcare United States Pharmaceutical Retailers
Company Description
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is a holding company that owns Walgreens, Boots, and a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution companies. It operates in 25 countries through three divisions: retail pharmacy USA (Walgreens), retail pharmacy international (Boots and other retail operations internationally), and pharmaceutical wholesale (Alliance Healthcare).
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Industry: Pharmaceutical Retailers
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Detailed Description
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and beauty retail company. It operates through two segments, the United States and International. The United States segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of retail products, including health, wellness, beauty, personal care, consumable, and general merchandise products through its retail drugstores. It also provides central specialty pharmacy services and mail services. As of August 31, 2021, this segment operated 8,965 retail stores under the Walgreens and Duane Reade brands in the United States; and five specialty pharmacies. The International segment sells prescription drugs; and health and wellness, beauty, personal care, and other consumer products through its pharmacy-led health and beauty retail stores and optical practices, as well as through boots.com and an integrated mobile application. It also engages in pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution business in Germany. As of August 31, 2021, this segment operated 4,031 retail stores under the Boots, Benavides, and Ahumada in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Chile; and 548 optical practices, including 160 on a franchise basis. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
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Product & Services
Drug storePharmacy
Key People
Stefano Pessina (Executive Chairman) Rosalind Brewer (CEO)
Financials
Revenue: US$139.5 billion (2020)
Operating income: US$1.3 billion (2020)
Net income: US$456 million (2020)
Total assets: US$87.2 billion (2020)
Total equity: US$21.1 billion (2020)