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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 ...
Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist: A study in Business History by Stanley Chapman (Detail from a copy of the book with black and white plates of Jesse Boot and published by Hodder and Stoughton UK as a special edition for The Boots Company Nottingham in 1973 with an ISBN 0-340-17704-7.)
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 ...
Leicestershire. 52°45′58″N 0°53′10″W / . 52.7661°N 0.8860°W. / 52.7661; -0.8860. Melton Mowbray ( / ˈmɛltən ˈmoʊbri /) is a town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Leicester, and 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the ...
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]
52.105752°N 1.331663°E. / 52.105752; 1.331663. Melton is a village in Suffolk, England, located approximately one mile northeast of Woodbridge. The 2001 census recorded a population of 3,718, [ 1] the population increasing to 3,741 at the 2011 Census. [ 2] The village is served by Melton railway station on the Ipswich - Lowestoft East Suffolk ...