Thousands of WBA colleagues in six countries, including Norway, are active – and we mean active – as they raise funds and awareness in the fight against cancer.
Our International segment has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses in four countries, each focused on helping people look and feel their best, as well as WBA’s pharmaceutical wholesale operation in Germany.
Our U.S. Retail Pharmacy segment includes two trusted retail, pharmacy and healthcare brands: Walgreens and Duane Reade. Together, they form one of the largest drugstore chains in the U.S.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is a vast, global health and wellness enterprise, committed to being a force for good around the world. As a leader in retail pharmacy, we're able to meaningfully improve millions of lives with innovative products, convenient retail locations and accessible care.
WBA has a global portfolio of healthcare-focused investments. Our equity method investments enable us to further extend our healthcare solutions and convenience offering to the communities we serve.
We are boldly committed to creating a better world through health and wellness. See how we’re making this a reality through our brand purpose, company vision and core values.
DEERFIELD, Ill., 9 January 2015 – Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) marked its first week as a new public company by ringing the Opening Bell this morning at the Nasdaq Stock Market, where it trades under the ticker symbol WBA. The ceremony was attended by the new enterprise’s leadership.
DEERFIELD, Ill., 15 January 2015 – The board of directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 33.75 cents per share, a 7.1 percent increase over the year ago dividend. The dividend is payable 12 March 2015 to shareholders of record as of 18
April 29, 2015 (Deerfield, IL) - Walgreens Boots Alliance will be a key sponsor of the USA Pavilion at the upcoming world’s fair in Milan, which will take place from 1 May to 31 October 2015. Under the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, Expo Milano 2015 will look at how countries generate
DEERFIELD, Ill., 9 July 2015 - Walgreens Boots Alliance today announces that it has acquired Liz Earle Beauty Co. Ltd, owner of the Liz Earle skincare brand.
6 August 2015 (Brussels, Belgium) - The Dennis & Mireille Gillings Foundation has pledged €1 million to the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Research Fund to help fight cancer, particularly breast cancer. Part of the donation will support the SPECTAcolor Biobank, a tumour tissue sample Biobank and biomarker analysis platform for genetic profiling of patients suffering from advanced cancer. In supporting this Biobank, the Dennis & Mireille Gillings Foundation will join forces with Walgreens Boots Alliance, which has a long-term partnership with the EORTC Cancer Research Fund.
DEERFIELD, Ill., 11 April, 2016 – Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced that it has sold its local pharmaceutical wholesale business, Alliance Healthcare Russia, to leading Russian health and beauty retailer 36.6 (Moscow Exchange: APTK).
- Efforts will assist one of the most ambitious medical research programs in history of American medicine - Walgreens Boots Alliance continues digital health leadership via Walgreens participation in PMI Cohort Program
Meet Walgreens team member Chris Egan in “Personal Best,” a new video series by Walgreens, and learn how he personifies the Walgreens Boots Alliance core value of “committed.”
Elyse Russo, Walgreens Stories
Committed. It’s one of four core values at Walgreens Boots Alliance, and it’s a value wholeheartedly embodied by Walgreens business process manager Chris Egan.
Egan is committed to his family. One of six children raised by a single mother, he dropped out of high school at age 14 to find work to support his family. Now, he’s committed to a growing family of his own, as he and his wife Jessica just welcomed their first child.
Egan is also deeply committed to disability inclusion. In fact, he got his start at Walgreens in Anderson, South Carolina, as a training coordinator supporting the Transitional Work Group (TWG), which is one of two company placement programs for people with disabilities. TWG focuses on hiring for Walgreens distribution centers, while Retail Employees with Disabilities (REDI) focuses on filling cashier and other retail roles.
But Egan’s passion for working with people with disabilities started much earlier. Egan worked several jobs to pay his way at Clemson University, including teaching classes for young adults with disabilities through the ClemsonLIFE program and working as an equipment manager for the Clemson football team. Through these jobs is how Egan met his best friend and the eventual best man at his wedding, David Saville. Egan says Saville, who has Down syndrome, is a leader of the disability inclusion movement on Clemson’s campus and beyond.
It's team members like Egan who propel WBA’s commitment to disability inclusion as a company—a commitment we’ve recently doubled down on. WBA is dedicated to increasing the representation of people with disabilities at all levels across the company’s U.S. segments, and has redesigned its annual bonus plan in the U.S. to include a disability representation metric to drive this commitment.
Learn more about how Egan embodies WBA’s core value of “committed” in the first episode of “Personal Best,” a new series by Walgreens. In this series, we’ll highlight team members who stand for our core values—courageous, connected, committed and curious—in their personal and professional lives.
