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About Us

Boots is the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer with over 52,000 team members and around 1,900 stores, ranging from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores.*

Boots serves its customers and patients for life as the leading provider of healthcare on the high street and the UK’s number one beauty destination. It offers an unrivalled depth and breadth of products, which incorporates its extensive own brand range and innovative portfolio of brands, including No7, the UK’s No1 skincare brand, Soap & Glory, Liz and Earle Beauty.

2024 marks Boots’ 175th anniversary year. Founder John Boot opened a herbalist store in Nottingham in 1849 to offer an affordable alternative to traditional medicines. His son Jesse expanded the business to become a modern retailer and the biggest chemist in Britain. Throughout its history, Boots has listened, learned and innovated, and it continues to challenge itself to improve its products and services every day.

Boots is part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is a global leader in pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retail. More company information is available on boots-uk.com.

Our relationship with MH Alshaya

M.H. Alshaya Co. is the retail business of the Alshaya Group, which was founded in Kuwait in 1890 and today represents one of the most dynamic companies in the Middle East.
 
M.H. Alshaya Co. first introduced Boots in the Middle East in 2006 with the launch of the first Boots store in Kuwait. Eighteen years later, Alshaya operates 111 Boots stores across its markets as part of its portfolio of over 3,800 stores across a range of customer sectors: Fashion & Footwear, Health & Beauty, Food, Optics, Pharmacy, Home Furnishings and Leisure & Entertainment.
 
Apart from Boots, Alshaya is a leading international franchise operator for over 70 of the world’s most recognized retail brands. From flagship stores and restaurants in prestige malls, through to local coffee shops, drive-thrus and online, Alshaya Group brings customers the brands they love in the places they want to be. Brands such as Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, Debenhams, American Eagle Outfitters, P.F. Chang’s, The Cheesecake Factory, The Body Shop, M.A.C, Victoria’s Secret, Boots, Pottery Barn and KidZania can be found in markets across the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Turkey and Europe, and the company employs more than 40,000 people from over 110 nationalities.

"Learn more about the company at alshaya.com or on Facebook."

Vision and Purpose

Our Vision: Be the first choice for pharmacy, well-being and beauty - caring for people and communities around the world.

Our purpose: We help people across the world lead healthier and happier lives.

Our values: Walgreens Boots Alliance takes seriously its aim of inspiring a healthier and happier world, as reflected in our core values:

  • Trust - Respect, integrity and candor guide our actions to do the right thing.
  • Care - Our people and customers inspire us to act with commitment and passion.
  • Innovation - We cultivate an open and entrepreneurial mind-set in all that we do.
  • Partnership - We work collaboratively with each other and our partners to win together.
  • Dedication - We work with rigor, simplicity and agility to deliver exceptional results.