| WBA Description: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and wellbeing company. The company operates through three segments: Retail Pharmacy USA, Retail Pharmacy International, and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of general merchandise, including non-prescription drugs, beauty products, photo finishing, seasonal merchandise, greeting cards, and convenience foods through its retail drugstores and convenient care clinics. It also provides specialty pharmacy services; and manages in-store clinics under the brand Healthcare Clinic. As of August 31, 2015, this segment operated 8,173 retail stores under the Walgreens and Duane Reade brands in the United States; and 7 specialty pharmacy locations, as well as managed approximately 400 Healthcare Clinics. The Retail Pharmacy International segment sells prescription drugs; and health, beauty, toiletry, and other consumer products through its pharmacy-led health and beauty stores, as well as through boots.com and BootsWebMD.com. It is also involved in optical practice and related contract manufacturing operations. This segment operated 4,582 retail stores under the No7, Boots Pharmaceuticals, Botanics, Liz Earle, Soap & Glory, and only at Boots brand names in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Chile, Thailand, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, and Lithuania; and 637 optical practices in the United Kingdom. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale segment engages in the wholesale and distribution of specialty and generic pharmaceuticals, health and beauty products, and home healthcare supplies and equipment, as well as provides services to pharmacies and other healthcare providers. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois. |
