WBA - Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

108 Wilmot Road
Deerfield, IL 60015
United States
847 315 2500
http://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com

Sector: Healthcare
Industry: Pharmaceutical Retailers
Full-time employees: 232,000

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. James A. Skinner	Exec. Chairman	N/A	N/A	1944
Mr. Stefano Pessina	Exec. Vice Chairman & CEO	28.82k	N/A	1941
Mr. James Kehoe	Exec. VP & Global CFO	2.24M	N/A	1962
Mr. Alexander W. Gourlay	Co-Chief Operating Officer	1.63M	N/A	1960
Ms. Ornella Barra	Co-Chief Operating Officer	1.42M	N/A	1953

Amounts are as of 31 December 2019, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and wellbeing company. It operates through three segments: Retail Pharmacy USA, Retail Pharmacy International, and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of retail products, including health, wellness, beauty, personal care, consumable, and general merchandise products through its retail drugstores and convenient care clinics. It also provides specialty pharmacy services and mail services; and manages in-store clinics. As of August 31, 2019, this segment operated 9,277 retail stores under the Walgreens and Duane Reade brands in the United States; and 6 specialty pharmacies. The Retail Pharmacy International segment sells prescription drugs; and health and wellness, beauty, personal care, and other consumer products through its pharmacy-led health and beauty stores and optical practices, as well as through boots.com and an integrated mobile application. This segment operated 4,605 retail stores under the Boots, Benavides, and Ahumada in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Chile; and 606 optical practices, including 165 on a franchise basis. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale segment engages in the wholesale and distribution of specialty and generic pharmaceuticals, health and beauty products, and home healthcare supplies and equipment, as well as provides related services to pharmacies and other healthcare providers. This segment operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, Egypt, Norway, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.

Corporate governance

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 3 December 2019 is 1. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 5; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 3.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.