BOOTS

Boots is the UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. With around 2,500* stores ranging from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores, our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible. Boots UK is part of the Retail Pharmacy International Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc, the first global pharmacy-led health and wellbeing enterprise.

Boots is now a household name with stores all over the world and a number of hugely successful own-brand ranges.  It’s risen from humble beginnings to become the well-known and loved company it is today.  This timeline charts the development of the business from its first days as a herbalist store in Nottingham in the mid 1800s to its position as a modern global brand.