Talk:Boots UK

Boots vs. Reckitt Benckiser

Didn't they change there name from "Boots Group" to "Reckitt Benckiser"? Ansett 14:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Boots Healthcare International (which makes products like Hibitane and Strepsils) were sold off by BTC. BHI is now a part of the ReckittBenckiser Group.

ReckittBenckiser is a company formed after the merger of Reckitt Colman (a British company) and Benckiser (a Dutch company), for a full history (and their products) see their website: http://www.reckittbenckiser.com JHvW (talk) 11:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Boots vs. Reckitt Benckiser cont..

Reckitt Benckiser bought out Boots Healthcare International and now make all the OTC, Over the counter Products Boots sells, Boots Group is an encorporation of Boots the Chemist and Boots Stores Ltd as far as i am concerned The Former Boots group, Now Alliance Boots is an encorporation of Alliance Unichem, Boots Group, Which is split into Alliance Unichem, Boots the Chemist and Boots stores Ltd.

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this is realy crap man Boots is one tite ass who treats its staff like slaves, mister richard you realy need to calm the preasure on the staff hire more staff and stop it with your gridy ideas that will fail the company, P.S a very deapreciated staff that has so much potential.

Perhaps the image should be changed to a larger version of the logo. This is, after all what a person looking for a store will be actually looking for.

Reply: Unfortunately Boots has a team of designers who simply 'roll out' standard signage. This leads to some great looking stores and some....well, not so great ones. (unsigned)

I think both have value. I've added a larger logo. Derrick Coetzee 00:46, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article title

Isn't "Boots the Chemists" just the name of the pharmacy side of Boots? This article looks at the company in a wider context, so surely this article should be moved to Boots Group? [1] violet/riga (t) 11:54, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've just moved it - to my surprise, as I thought I would be taken to the "requested moves" page as there was a redirect page already. Carina22 07:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Who is 'Jesse'?

Does anyone know? I assumed is was the founder's first name, but that seems to be John. Perhaps it should be explained? --talkie_tim 16:31, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A great book about the History of Boots entitled: 'Jesse Boot of Nottingham' by Christopher Weir is available. ISBN 1-873116-01-2

John Boot, Jesse's father opened the British and American Botanic Establishment in around 1849 -supplying herbal remedies of the time to the community.

--217.155.134.5 09:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

There are many errors in the disussion of the history of the Boots Group. John Morag Boot founded the company in 1849 with his wife, it´s humble beginning being a shop that sold herbal remedies. But his son Jesse bought his fathers share when John died in 1856. Jesse came up with the idea that people were willing to pay cash for their products if they were cheap. A novel idea at the time. His first stores were known as Boot's the Cash Chemists (later Boots the Chemists or BTC).

Jesse also quickly realised the promise of patented medicine, thus being one of the first chemists to employ pharmacists.

Jesse was an astute businessman. Under his governance Boots (as it became known) grew to hundreds of stores in the UK. Jesse did not rate his son John very highly and sold the company to American investors in 1920. John managed to regain a controlling interest though and expanded the company. JHvW (talk) 11:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

In consequent discussions there a few facts that deserve mentioning: Probably for tax reasons the original Boot´s company was split up in entities specializing in their specific area of expertise, these were:

• Boot´s the Chemists (BTC): The well known Boots.
• Boots Contract Manufacturing (BCM): a company specialised in making end products (not only for Boots) such as "The Natural Collection".
• Boots Retail International (BRI): The part of Boots concerned with foreign expansion.
• Boots Healthcare International, their OTC department now part of Reckitt Benckiser

But not forgetting Boots the Opticiens and other Boots subsidiairies like the Boots real estate branch.

Boots PLC was also owner of chains like Halfords and Do-it-All.

Although the Alliance Boots company is called a merger it is technically a take-over. Boots has effectively bought Alliance. The discussion therefore should be about the origins of both companies, warranting seperate entries in the Wikipedia.

What should also be mentioned is that Boots was a public listed company (PLC). AllianceBoots was taken over by KKR in 2007. It is now effectively a private company.

JHvW (talk) 19:27, 22 June 2009 (UTC) (formerly a store manager for Boots and Boots historian)

Merger

Anyone know more about this?

[2]

Have a look here: [3] Wikiwoohoo 16:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

CEO

Am I the only one who images the CEO as a tabby cat wearing a suit? Named... (wait for it)... ..."Mittens", just out of irony? --71.133.137.41 02:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Possible merger...of the article

I was thinking that perhaps this article could be possibly renamed and sections transferred to the Alliance Boots article now that Boots Group Plc has been Alliance Boots since Monday 30th of July 2006. This article could now become Boots the Chemist or something similar, now that the company is no longer Boots Group. What do other people think? Wikiwoohoo 19:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Alliance Boots plc Merger

As the main author/ editor of the new Alliance Boots article, I agree with Wikiwoohoo about re-naming 'Boots Group' either 'The Boots Company' or 'Boots the Chemists' as the Boots Group PLC no longer exists.

However, I would not merge Boots Group or Alliance UniChem completely into Alliance Boots as it would mean losing information and facts, or readers not being able to find what they are looking for. With previous mergers, such as the Morrisons buyout of Safeway, or NTL's takeover of Telewest and Virgin Mobile UK, their respective pages have been maintained.

Why don't you, Wikiwoohoo carry out this task?

Many thanks, Bannister Ventures

Yes do

Boots Manufacturing

Would anyone be opposed to the addition of an external link to Boots Manufacturing's website? Just to clarify, BM is a wholey own subsidiary of the group, the same as Boots The Chemist, which there is a link for.

Thanks & regards How it is 00:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Boots Employees

I, myself am an employee of the Alliance Boots Group, and as result of the merger Boots has been Forced to close several of its branchs, thankfully this has not affected my branch but employees i know from another store are very Irate that they were not kept informed of theie possible redundency and that no attempt has been made to move them to other local branches when GSM's (group store managers) and GPM's (group pharmacy managers)said this would be happen. I feel that i like the company i work for but i agree that more could be done for employee, employer relations. --Gocartsforelephants 22:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Animals

Nothing about them testing on animals? This is one of the most cruel acts imaginable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RDMio (talk • contribs) 03:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

== Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd. [1953] 1 Q.B. 401; [1953] 1 All E.R. 482

==

Shouldn't the article make reference to this case? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Society_of_Great_Britain_v._Boots_Cash_Chemists_%28Southern%29_Ltd. This was a key decision on contract law affecting retail all around the world. Logically any article about boots has to cite the way they opperated their business, shaped the pharmaceutical business so much to how it is today?--Kbbbb 13:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Page move

This article should be moved to The Boots Company Plc.

Following merger with Alliance Unichem Plc, the Boots Group Plc (formerly The Boots Company Plc) is now known as Alliance Boots Limited.

163.167.129.124 15:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, is anyone prepared to move this page to "The Boots Company"? I would do it, but there's a good change I'll screw it up... How it is (talk) 01:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Boots Estate

This section should be expanded. It is now quite cryptic what "D6" or "D10" stand for. LHOON (talk) 22:10, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

D6 and D10 are actually the names of the buildings themselves. They were designed by Sir E Owen Williams for the Boots Company.

D6 is part of the Boots buildings in Beeston in Nottingham, it is a Grade I listed building. D10 was originally the headquarters of Boots Contract Manufacturing in Beeston. It is now a Grade I listed building (probably the largest in the UK). It is still in use by Boots.

D31, D34 and D90 are other buildings but are rated grade II, buildings of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them. JHvW (talk) 07:35, 25 June 2009 (UTC)