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Boots is said to be looking to open up to 15 drive-through stores over the next two years, following the success of a trial in Colchester. 05-Oct-2009 Boots is to close its distribution centre at Thetford with the loss of 83 jobs, in order to transfer the work to a new automated centre that will soon open in Nottingham. 26-Jan-2009 Boots is to shed 240 jobs over the next 18 months, in order to integrate functions carried out in Nottingham and Feltham. 09-Oct-2008 Boots has agreed a deal with Bournemouth & Poole NHS Trust to set up the country's first high-street GP surgery in Poole, as part of a government initiative to make healthcare more accessible in local communities. 14-Dec-2006 Boots is in discussions with the NHS about the possibility of setting up GP surgeries and basic healthcare services in some of its larger stores, which will involve renting out space to local health authorities. 25-Jul-2006 Boots is to bring 100 IT staff back in-house, having decided to reduce the extent of its outsourcing contract with IBM. 16-May-2006 Boots is to set up a chain of 60 midnight pharmacies in retail parks, train stations and airports across the country. 03-Apr-2006 Boots is to modernise 700 smaller stores over the next three years, as part of a £250m investment that will also involve the consolidation of 17 regional distribution centres into a new £70m warehouse in Nottingham and the loss of 2,250 jobs. 15-Mar-2006 Boots is to invest about £200m in store refurbishments and improvements to its distribution infrastructure. 01-Feb-2006 Boots is to close its online warehouse operation in Long Eaton, in order to outsource the work and up to 47 jobs to iForce in Birmingham. 19-Jan-2006 Boots is to recruit up to 100 staff for a new 11,500 sq ft health and beauty store due to open at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent in April. 11-Jan-2006 Reckitt Benckiser is to acquire the Boots Healthcare International consumer healthcare division of Boots for £1.9bn, which will involve the transfer of about 2,500 Nottingham-based staff. 10-Oct-2005 Boots is planning to merge with Alliance UniChem in a £7bn deal that would create a combined healthcare and beauty retailing business with 2,600 stores in the UK. 03-Oct-2005 Boots has secured sites to open three out-of-town stores next year in Yeovil, Hayle and Great Yarmouth. 18-Jul-2005 Boots is said to have agreed a £300m sale and leaseback deal for 312 stores with REIT Asset Management. 04-Jul-2005 Boots is looking to form partnerships with other retailers interested in taking space in its 150 largest stores, in order to utilise excess selling space. 30-Jun-2005 Boots is to close two buildings at its Beeston site in Nottingham by October, with the relocation of 200 staff to other buildings. 13-Jun-2005 Boots is to outsource part of its back-office operations to Xchanging, in a £400m deal that includes spending on travel, marketing, facilities management and invoice processing. 31-May-2005 Boots is looking to raise more than £1bn from the sale of its over-the-counter medicines business by the end of the year. 08-Apr-2005 Boots is to sell its 50% stake in the Handbag.com online retailing business to the Barclay brothers for about £2m. 31-Mar-2005 Optical Express is to acquire the in-store dental and laser eye correction services operated by Boots, saving 700 jobs, and the services will be integrated into new or existing locations. 15-Oct-2004 Boots is to close its laser eye care, chiropody and dentistry operations by the end of the year, casting doubt on the future of 850 jobs, and the space will be used to expand its retailing operations. 15-Sep-2004 Boots is planning to shed a further 700 jobs at its Nottingham headquarters over the next two years. 28-May-2004 Boots is to spend £250m opening 40 edge-of-town and 20 convenience stores this year, and about 3,000 new jobs will be created. 29-Mar-2004 Boots is to outsource its Nottingham-based D82 Warehouse and 600 jobs to Unipart, while 300 new jobs will be created across the Boots logistics operation to cope with extended working hours and more frequent deliveries. 30-Jan-2004 Boots is to shed a further 900 jobs at its head office in Nottingham, as part of an ongoing cost reduction programme. 12-Jan-2004 Boots has sold its Hearingcare operation to David Ormerod Hearing Centres of Llandudno, with Ormerod taking responsibility for the provision of hearing care in 64 of its stores. 13-Nov-2003 Boots is said to be considering plans to close hundreds of high-street stores, in order to reduce costs and invest in its more profitable larger sites. 15-Sep-2003 Boots is launching a new Work Convenience store format targeted at city workers, and it could be rolled out to 150 sites depending on the success of a trial in London's Holborn. 07-Jul-2003 Boots is considering plans to open health and beauty stores in the US, and discussions are taking place with a number of potential partners. 17-Jun-2003 Boots is to invest £238m in new stores and computer systems this year, but 500 jobs are being shed in the IT and human resources departments at its Nottingham head office. 06-Jun-2003 Boots is to shed about 30 jobs at a Nottingham warehouse, while 500 jobs will be transferred following the award of a £7m distribution contract to Unipart and a £40m to Tibbett & Britten. 23-May-2003 Boots is considering plans to outsource the management of one of its warehouses to Unipart. 25-Apr-2003 Boots has announced plans to close its 12 Wellbeing health and beauty outlets, shed 700 jobs and rationalise its retail operations in continental Europe and Asia Pacific. 28-Mar-2003 Boots is to close its 12 in-store complementary therapy clinics, providing health services such as homeopathy, herbalism, aromatherapy and reflexology, with the loss of about 50 jobs. 13-Feb-2003 Boots is to close its cosmetics plant in Airdrie over the next two years with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs, and production will be transferred to Nottingham, France, Germany and Thailand. 05-Feb-2003 Boots is looking to reduce its cost base by £100m, which will lead to job losses in manufacturing and distribution and at its Nottingham head office. 08-Nov-2002 Xansa has won a £54m IT outsourcing contract from Boots, covering the retailer's supply chain management and other business applications. 11-Oct-2002 Boots has announced a £710m deal to outsource the management of its information systems to IBM, which will involve the transfer of 400 staff. 02-Oct-2002 Boots is to sell Halfords, the chain of 400 car parts and cycle stores, to CVC Capital Partners for up to £427m, which will involve the transfer of all 9,800 staff and the head office in Redditch. 26-Jul-2002 Boots has announced plans for a £240m refurbishment programme over the next four years, and 300 stores will be refitted this year. 31-May-2002 Boots is planning to vacate its 30-acre North Lane distribution depot in Aldershot next year, having put the site on the market. 20-May-2002 Boots is planning to spin off its Halfords chain of 400 car accessory stores, in order to focus on its core health and beauty business. 18-Apr-2002 Boots has signed a two-year contract to outsource the manufacture of children's clothing to Adams Childrenswear, and Adams will also be responsible for design and in-store merchandising of the clothes. 02-Apr-2002 Boots is planning to open 20 Halfords car and cycle accessory shops and refurbish 60 to the Arcade format this year, as part of an ongoing programme to revive the brand. 25-Mar-2002 Boots is to close 19 stand-alone stores in Asia, in order to focus its international expansion on implants in stores run by companies such as Watsons in Taiwan and Tops in Thailand. 01-Feb-2002 Boots and Granada are to close their Wellbeing Network digital TV channel with the loss of 80 jobs, while Granada has also announced plans to shed a further 400 jobs over the next few months. 28-Nov-2001 Boots is to close its internet photographic service, which has incurred more than £14m of losses. 25-Sep-2001 Centrica has acquired 129 Halfords garages from Boots for £5.7m, and will invest £10m in the sites in order to expand the range of motoring services offered by its AA division. 26-Jul-2001 Boots is to pull out of the Japanese market by closing its four trial shops and ending its joint venture with Mitsubishi. 16-Jul-2001 Boots is planning to set up six trial branches in out-of-town Sainsbury stores later this year. 09-Jul-2001 Boots has sold its Onagrine and Nobacter skincare brands to Beiersdorf for £20m. 04-Jul-2001 Boots is planning to open a chain of 65 Pure Beauty cosmetic stores after a trial of eight outlets. 01-Jun-2001 Boots is planning to speed up the development of its laser eye clinics, with five more opening before August. 14-May-2001 Boots has acquired Portland Ceramics, the Manchester-based dental laboratory, for £1.6m, and will invest £0.5m in the laboratory in the first year. 03-Apr-2001 Boots is planning to invest £19m in the creation of 34 new-format Halfords car accessory stores in London and the south-east. 02-Apr-2001 Boots has launched two hearing care centres in Birmingham and Manchester, and plans to invest £11m opening a further 150 over the next four years. 30-Mar-2001 Boots is to shed a further 1,000 jobs following a strategic review of its pharmacy chain, which is expected to include the closure of some stores. 05-Feb-2001 Boots is to shed 50 jobs at its head office in Beeston following a cost-cutting review, and a further 200 jobs could go after a review of its Boots Properties subsidiary. 18-Jan-2001 Boots is to open a further 38 chiropody and foot care practices in stores across the country, at a cost of £6m. 24-Nov-2000 Boots is to acquire Clearasil, the acne treatment, from Procter & Gamble for £233m, in order to expand its international skincare business. 18-Oct-2000 Granada Media is forming a joint venture with Boots to set up a health and beauty digital TV channel and e-commerce business, and the two companies will invest £18m in the first year. 13-Oct-2000 Boots is considering plans to install solar power systems in its stores, and is testing a unit made by Solel Solar Systems of Israel. 09-Oct-2000 Boots is opening its first branch in Taiwan, as part of a £14m investment that will involve six new stores. 25-Sep-2000 Boots is to transfer its 17 Dutch stores to Royal Ahold, in a change in strategy that will see it focus on retailing in Asia and the distribution of own-brand products through other retailers in continental Europe. 18-Aug-2000 Boots is planning a £130m revamp for its chain of Halfords car accessory stores, starting with 33 outlets in the Midlands. 24-Jul-2000 Boots has announced plans to transform its stores into "centres of expertise" in health, and will introduce new services such as dentistry, manicure bars and chiropody. 02-Jun-2000 Boots and Prudential are to launch the first combined credit and loyalty card, which will involve Boots taking commission on the sale of financial services to its customers and the creation of 200 new jobs at Prudential's Derby call centre. 13-Apr-2000 Boots is testing self-service kiosks at its Monument branch in London, enabling loyalty card customers to scan their own shopping and use a self pay point. 11-Apr-2000 Boots has appointed Parkes & Co to carry out a review of its £800m freehold properties. 20-Mar-2000 Boots is considering plans to build gyms in some of its retail outlets, and is in talks with health club operators. 14-Feb-2000 Boots is to close eight of its regional head offices with the loss of up to 50 middle management jobs, in order to reduce costs. 26-Jan-2000 Boots is to shed up to 25 security staff at its Nottingham headquarters, following the introduction of a new CCTV system. 15-Dec-1999 Boots is seeking potential sites for a new health centre business, which will combine a GP practice, dentist, chiropody unit, gym, swimming pool and Boots the Chemist store under one roof. 13-Dec-1999 Boots has announced plans to open 2,500 shops outside the UK over the next ten years, and aims to gain 3% of the world's health and beauty market. 16-Oct-1999 Boots is planning to reduce costs by £160m over the next three years, which includes the loss of about 500 head office jobs. 23-Sep-1999 Boots is planning a major expansion programme for its out-of-town stores, and aims to invest £65m in 150 shops over the next five years. 18-Sep-1999 Boots is to set up two pilot stores aimed at men in Bristol and Edinburgh, offering a wide range of men's health and fitness products. 13-Aug-1999 Boots is opening its first health and beauty store in Japan, as part of a pilot project in partnership with Mitsubishi. 30-Jul-1999 Boots is to spend £14m installing interactive terminals into 350 stores, in order to offer special promotions to loyalty card holders. 21-Jul-1999 Boots is planning to revamp its Cornmarket store in Oxford, which will involve taking over three other shops and could cost up to £16m. 29-Jun-1999 Boots is to cut about 100 jobs following the relocation of its Nottingham head office, but many more jobs are expected to be created as a result of its store opening programme. 04-Jun-1999 Boots is to invest £12m in the launch of a health and beauty magazine, which will be mailed free to holders of its loyalty card. 26-May-1999 Boots is planning to open four health and beauty stores in Japan this year, in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation. 12-Apr-1999 Boots is opening chiropody and foot care practices in a number of branches over the next few weeks, and its first dental practice will be launched in Milton Keynes in May. 15-Mar-1999 Boots is to close its Erdington distribution centre in Birmingham in April with the loss of about 100 jobs, and the operation will be transferred to Nottinghamshire. 29-Jan-1999 Boots has confirmed plans to open 40 new stores in the Netherlands following a successful trial. 29-Jan-1999 Boots has moved more than 1,000 staff to a newly refurbished head office building in Nottingham, and a further 350 staff will be transferred later this month. 07-Jan-1999 Boots is to open a family planning clinic at a store in Glasgow, in a joint venture with Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust. 02-Dec-1998 The £758m Millennium Dome has secured an additional £36m in sponsorship from four companies - Boots, British Aerospace, GEC and McDonald's. 27-Nov-1998 Boots is planning to open more than 100 out-of-town stores over the next two years, which will help it to increase sales of bulky electrical goods. 13-Nov-1998 Boots is said to be planning to open 50 stores in the Netherlands over the next five years. 24-Oct-1998 Boots is cutting 200 jobs at its medicines and cosmetics manufacturing division in Nottingham in order to improve efficiency. 21-Oct-1998 Boots is to form a joint venture with Nicholas Piramal India to develop and market over-the-counter drugs in India. 24-Sep-1998 Boots is acquiring Wilson's Dentistry of the West Midlands for £250,000 as part of a plan to run a trial of six dental practices, some of which will be in its stores. 10-Sep-1998 Boots has sold its Do It All chain of 139 DIY stores to Focus Retail, which is backed by Duke Street Capital, for £68m. 20-Aug-1998 Boots is planning a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation to expand into the Japanese pharmacy market, and will open four stores in Tokyo next year. 29-Jul-1998 Boots is buying a throat-care drug and an oral painkiller from Klosterfrau of Germany for almost £16m, and has also agreed a distribution deal in which Klosterfrau will act as Boots' agent in Germany. 22-Jul-1998 Boots is said to have received a number of takeover approaches for its Do It All DIY chain, and the venture capital group Alchemy Partners is said to be one of the interested parties. 04-Jun-1998 Boots has announced plans to open 40 pharmacies in Thailand at a cost of £9m, following a trial period which showed the potential for its health-and-beauty format. 14-May-1998 Boots is said to have started discussions with a number of venture capitalists about the sale of its Do It All chain of DIY stores for £100m. 04-May-1998 Boots is acquiring Connors Pharmacy Chain, which has 25 stores in Northern Ireland and five in the Republic of Ireland, for £18m. 08-Apr-1998 Boots has confirmed plans to start offering insurance products for accidents, pregnancy, travel and dental care, at 250 of its largest stores next month. 25-Mar-1998 Boots is to announce plans to sell health and travel insurance to holders of its Advantage store card. 20-Mar-1998 Boots is considering the introduction of healthcare specialists into its stores to offer advice to customers on areas such as teeth, skin, hair and aromatherapy. 07-Nov-1997 Boots has warned that the expansion plans of pharmacy chains could be threatened by a shortage of pharmacists qualifying in the year 2000, caused by the Europe-wide extension of pharmacy degree courses from three to four years. 03-Nov-1997 Boots is acquiring Hermal Kurt Herrmann, the German skincare company, from Merck for £174m, and will use Hermal's salesforce to launch its Lutsia range of anti-ageing and anti-acne products into Germany. 11-Sep-1997 Boots is selling its AG Stanley home-decorating stores to Alchemy Partners, the venture-capital group, for a nominal sum. 29-Aug-1997 Boots is to launch its new loyalty card in September which will offer 1p for every 25p spent, and the scheme is expected to increase sales by 4%. 07-Aug-1997 Energis has won a £27m five year contract to provide a data transmission network linking the 1,300 locations of Boots' retail outlets and warehouses. 25-Jun-1997 Boots is to launch the Advantage loyalty card in its stores nationwide, offering points towards discounts on purchases. 06-Jun-1997 Boots has acquired Farmila Dermical, the Italian skin care concern, for £4.1m. 10-Jan-1997 Marks & Spencer is to launch a range of vitamin and mineral supplements in its first step into the healthcare market, a move seen as a threat to Boots. 29-Oct-1996 Boots is to open its first Boots the Chemists store in the Irish Republic next month, in a Dublin shopping centre, and more are expected to follow. 16-Oct-1996 Boots is to open chemist shops in Japan, Thailand and the Netherlands on a trial basis, as well as a chain in Ireland. 11-Oct-1996 Boots is acquiring Laboratoires Lutsia, the French skincare concern, for £115m, as part of its strategy to develop its over-the-counter healthcare activities. 21-Sep-1996 Boots is planning a further 110 small stores and out-of-town chemist stores over the next four years in a £300m investment programme, and is also preparing to launch a loyalty card. 03-Jul-1996 Boots is planning a further 110 small stores and out-of-town chemist stores over the next four years in a £300m investment programme. 03-Jul-1996 Boots has bought back about 5% of its shares for £300m, but has retained enough funds for making acquisitions in healthcare and investments in retailing. 28-Jun-1996 Boots is to acquire WH Smith's share in their joint Do It All chain of DIY stores. 10-Jun-1996 Boots is to pull out of DIY retailing as it is looking for a buyer for its Fads and Homestyle chains and its share in Do It All. 27-May-1996 Storehouse is rumoured to be about to buy the Children's World chain from Boots. 29-Jan-1996 Boots and the Post Office are planning to recycle Christmas cards, with the Post Office selling them to waste paper merchants and Boots using them in tissue paper. 22-Dec-1995 Boots has awarded Courtaulds Engineering a £15m contract for a combined heat and power unit at its new Coventry energy centre. 07-Dec-1995 Tesco, Boots and Sainsbury have said they will not follow Asda's lead in cutting prices of OTC medicines. 17-Oct-1995
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