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Alliance Boots Reports Rapid Overseas Wholesale Growth

Despite facing stiff competition from supermarkets in the UK, the group’s pharmaceuticals wholesale division, which operates mainly in Europe, saw annual local revenues rise 26%. The firm, formed out of the merger of Boots and Alliance Unichem in 2006, has more than 3,000 stores worldwide and employs more than 115,000 people.

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