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BOOTS UK LIMITED

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1968-03-11

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1766 Articles

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Pharmaceutical Preparations

Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, and Druggists' Sundries

Miscellaneous General Merchandise Stores

Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores

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Boots ordered to pay former Wickford employee £58k

2024-08-16 (echo-news.co.uk)

Boots ordered to pay former Wickford employee £58k

Samson Famojuro, a pharmacist of Nigerian national origin, successfully won a tribunal case against Boots for racial harassment while employed at a…

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Boots sued for alleged asbestos poisoning

2024-06-06 (telegraph.co.uk)

Boots sued for alleged asbestos poisoning

Lawyers for Boots are fighting the claim, denying the company breached its duty to Mrs Lawton or that there was a “foreseeable risk” of her suffering a deadly disease. Judge Vikram Sachdeva KC heard Mrs Lawton went to work in the store in Hanley in September 1957, while the building was undergoing a

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R/GA Australia Appoints Marie Conley Executive Strategy Director

2024-05-16 (brandinginasia.com)

R/GA Australia Appoints Marie Conley Executive Strategy Director

Conley was previously Strategy Partner at The Pharm/VML, leading WPP’s global partnership with Walgreen Boots Alliance, and charged with combining brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to drive growth.

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R/GA Australia Appoints Marie Conley As Executive Strategy Director

2024-05-07 (bandt.com.au)

R/GA Australia Appoints Marie Conley As Executive Strategy Director

Marie was formerly strategy partner at The Pharm/VML, leading WPP’s global partnership with Walgreen Boots Alliance, and charged with combining brand experience, customer experience and commerce to drive growth.

Read more
Pharmacist wins racial harassment claim after being ‘stereotyped as an aggressive black man’

2023-11-13 (thehrdirector.com)

Pharmacist wins racial harassment claim after being ‘stereotyped as an aggressive black man’

In Mr S. Famojuro v (1) Boots Management Services Limited (2) Mrs E. Walker A black senior pharmacist has won a racial harassment case against Boots after a judge threw out a white colleague's defence that she 'could not have' discriminated against him because she has black friends.

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No fitness-to-practise case for Boots following Deliveroo OTC incident

2022-08-24 (chemistanddruggist.co.uk)

No fitness-to-practise case for Boots following Deliveroo OTC incident

The GPhC has decided not to conduct a formal fitness-to-practise investigation into a Boots pharmacy after a Deliveroo driver was filmed mocking a woman over a product she ordered from one of the multiple’s branches via the delivery app.

Read more
Woman, 24, appears in court charged with 'procuring own miscarriage' under 160-year Victorian law

2022-03-23 (dailymail.co.uk)

Woman, 24, appears in court charged with 'procuring own miscarriage' under 160-year Victorian law

The 24-year-old from London is accused of unlawfully administering prescription drug Misoprostol with intent to abort her unborn child. She appeared at court via video link yesterday.

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Anti-lockdown protesters accused of harassing  BBC journalist Nicholas Watt will stand trial in June

2022-03-23 (dailymail.co.uk)

Anti-lockdown protesters accused of harassing BBC journalist Nicholas Watt will stand trial in June

Martin Hockridge, 57, Christopher Aitken, 62, Djazia Chaib-Eddour, 43, Alexander Peat, 34, and 44-year-old Gary Purnell are all charged with harassing the journalist in Whitehall, central London.

Read more
Sainsbury's, John Lewis and Boots in Milton Keynes urgently warn customers NOT to eat these foods

2019-12-13 (miltonkeynes.co.uk)

Sainsbury's, John Lewis and Boots in Milton Keynes urgently warn customers NOT to eat these foods

Sainsbury's, John Lewis and Boots have issued an URGENT food recall to anyone with an intolerance to egg, milk, nuts or fish.

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