These forms of outpatient care are a good earner for Boots. 这些形式的门诊护理对博姿来说是一个很好的收入来源。 Assuming each of its pharmacies churns out 400 MURs a year, that one NHS programme is worth an annual 30m pounds t...
Miss it and they get on your back, said Tony. 未完成目标，它们就会骑在你背上，托尼说。 He adopted a managers whine: Youve done three MURs less than you should have done this week. 他接受了经理的牢骚：这周你只完成了...
Late last year, I went to the Midlands to meet Tony and hear his views on how his working conditions had changed. 去年年底，我去英格兰中部会见了托尼，听取了他对工作条件改变的看法。 He took me on a tour of a branch of...
This is not an academic point, but a matter for public interest. 这不是一个学术观点，而是一个公共利益问题。 To pocket Boots, Pessina and KKR had to outbid another private-equity baron, Guy Hands. 为了收购博姿，佩西纳和科...
All very complicated, yet perhaps rather lucrative for Pessina and KKR. 这一切都非常复杂，但对于佩西纳和科克罗公司来说，可能相当有利可图。 In 2013, a report published by War on Want, Unite and the US campaign group Ch...
Set in black ink on pink paper in the Companies and Markets section of the FT, these are no more than the technicalities of a company buyout. 在英国《金融时报》的公司与市场板块里，这些用黑色墨水写在粉红色纸张上的内容...
Prescription drugs, two packets of Beechams, a Shaper sandwich and some Brecon Carreg water. 处方药，两包美占集团的药物，一个塑身三明治和一些布雷肯克雷格水。 Over a century and a half, Boots had built up a business tha...
Scott had encountered Pessina once before. 斯科特以前见过佩西纳一次。 The two had met in the summer of 2006 just after Bootss merger with Alliance Unichem, but a few months before the buyout. 两人是在2006年夏天相识的就在博姿与...
A near-unknown from the continent had just snapped up a high-street stalwart and City newsrooms were agog. 一个来自欧洲大陆的几乎不为人知的人刚刚抢购了一个商业街中坚品牌城市的新闻编辑室对此兴奋不已。 The...
And it takes a lot of public money to do so: around 2bn pounds a year for prescriptions alone, 而且这需要大量的公共资金：仅处方一项，每年就有约20亿英镑， according to independent financial analysis, or a third of Bootss an...
