Boots the Chemist | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_UK


00:01:48 1 History
00:01:57 1.1 1849 to 2000
00:06:12 1.2 2000 to present
00:09:14 2 Products and services
00:10:25 3 Controversies
00:10:34 3.1 Sale of homeopathic products
00:11:22 3.2 Charging the NHS for carrying out unnecessary medicine reviews
00:12:06 3.3 2016 reports of workplace pressure
00:13:41 3.4 BBC documentary and press coverage in 2018
00:15:25 3.5 Supply of the "morning after pill"
00:17:59 3.6 Pharmacist suicide
00:18:47 3.7 Overcharging the NHS for products
00:20:10 4 The Boots Charitable Trust
00:20:42 5 Some of Boots UK's charitable activities
00:21:09 6 The Boots Estate
00:22:31 7 See also



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Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, other territories. The parent company, The Boots Company Plc, merged with Alliance UniChem in 2006 to form Alliance Boots. 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 company to be bought by a private equity firm. 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. 
Boots is one of the largest retailers in the UK and Ireland, both in terms of revenue and the number of shops. They have 2,500 shops across the United Kingdom and Ireland ranging from local pharmacies to large health and beauty shops. Their shops are primarily located on the high streets and in shopping centres. It sells many health and beauty products, and also provides optician and hearing care services within shops and as standalone practices. Boots also operates a retail website and since 1997 it runs a loyalty card programme called the Boots Advantage Card.