Wittington Investments to buy Boots for US$8.9bn
- Location
- 🇨🇦 Canada / United Kingdom
- Sector
- Retail
- Organisations
- Wittington Investments / Fairfax Financial ↔ Boots (Verkäufer: Sycamore Partners, Familie Pessina)
- Transaction
- Acquisition
- Volume
- US$8.9bn including debt
- Status
- announced
Wittington Investments, the holding company of Canada's Weston family, is buying the Boots pharmacy and health and beauty chain in the UK and Ireland from Sycamore Partners and the family of Stefano Pessina for US$8.9bn including debt; Fairfax Financial is to hold about half of the equity. Closing is expected in Q1 2027 (Personal Care Insights, 7 October 2026; second source: ITV News, 7 October 2026).
Source: personalcareinsights.com ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Further sources: itv.com ↗ (Archived copy ↗)
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