Business class: Boots chief to depart after sale process stalls

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Specification:

• AQA
  3.10.3 Managing strategic implementation

• Edexcel

  3.1.2 Theories of corporate strategy

  Key business terms from the article to research

  IPO

  Cash flow

Click to read the article below and then answer the questions:

Boots chief to depart after sale process stalls

• Why do you think Walgreens’ chief executive Tim Wentworth said on Thursday that the current pharmacy model was “not sustainable”

• What do you think Boots could do to “fulfil its potential”

   

  Extended research

  “The group operates more than 8,000 Walgreens and Duane Reade stores across the US, its largest market. It also owns about 2,000 Boots pharmacies in the UK”

  Research how these companies are similar, and how the group may benefits from synergies and economies of scale

Tim Punter, Moulsham High School