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Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemists Limited ), [ 1] is a health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain that operates in the United Kingdom. It also operates internationally, including Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Malta, Thailand and Indonesia . The parent company, The Boots Company plc, merged with Alliance UniChem in 2006 ...
John Boot (October 1815 – 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists. Originally working in agriculture, he was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham. Although he had no formal qualification, he had ...
The Boots Factory Site at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, is the location for the headquarters of Boots UK Limited. The site was developed from 1926 as the manufacturing, packing and distribution centre for the pharmaceutical company developed by Jesse Boot. The site contains a number of significant buildings, including "some of the most ...
Boots Book-Lovers' Library was a circulating library run by Boots the Chemist, a chain of pharmacies in the United Kingdom. It began in 1898, at the instigation of Florence Boot (née Florence Annie Rowe), and closed in 1966, following the passage of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 , which required councils to provide free public ...
52°52′20.2″N 0°51′15.3″W. / 52.872278°N 0.854250°W / 52.872278; -0.854250. Stathern is an English village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir about 10 miles (16 km) north of Melton Mowbray. Its church has an unusual dedication and its school a long history.
Alliance Boots GmbH. Alliance Boots was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and operational headquarters in Nottingham and Weybridge, United Kingdom . The company had a presence in over 27 countries including associates and joint ventures and in 2013/14, reported revenue in ...
The origin of Timothy Whites was a ships' chandlers and general store in Portsmouth, started in 1848 by Timothy White. [ 2] White himself qualified as a pharmacist in 1869. [ 3] By 1890, Whites was one of four British pharmacists with over ten branches. [ 4] Whites sold hardware as well as that which was normally found at a retail chemist's. [ 5]
Children. Dorothy Florence Boot. Margery Amy Boot. John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent. Parent (s) John Boot (father) Mary Wills (mother) Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent (2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as "Chemists to the Nation".