Question: has boots been taken over?
Answer: It now employs about 56,000 people in the UK. Mr Pessina led the buyout of Boots by the US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2007, before eventually merging the company with Walgreens in 2012. Since being taken private for £11bn in 2007, its various owners have taken out more than £10bn in dividends.