Alliance Boots boosted by anti-ageing cream sales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/business-11684572 Version 0 of 1. Alliance Boots has said its half-year figures were helped by good sales of anti-ageing Protect and Perfect creams. The company said same-store revenues for its health and beauty division grew by 2% to £3.4bn ($5.5bn). The Nottingham-based firm, which has more than 3,000 stores worldwide, said revenues for the group as a whole rose 6% to £8.9bn. Alliance Boots is in the process of cutting 900 non-store UK jobs over the next three years. The company's executive chairman, Stefano Pessina, said the company had made a number of important changes to Boots UK in the past few years. He said: "We have made substantial capital improvements in Boots in the UK to improve our stores and drive efficiency." The company said it had extended a partnership with the supermarket chain, Waitrose, whereby each sells certain products within some stores. It has also launched a partnership with children's clothing chain Mothercare for babies and children up to the age of 6 years old. Alliance Boots was bought by private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for £11bn in 2007. Boots and Alliance Unichem had merged a year earlier. It employs 115,000 people, including some 70,000 in the UK. |