Alliance Boots has announced significant growth last year driven by strong health and beauty sales and cost cutting measures.
The UK pharmacy and beauty manufacturer reported revenues of ?15.304bn for the year ending March 31 2008, an increase of 4.8
per cent on last year’s results.
Trading profit for the company increased by 20.3 per cent to ?771m [...]

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