M&A Deal Summary

Alliance Boots Acquires Farmacias Ahumada S.A.

On May 6, 2014, Alliance Boots acquired retailer Farmacias Ahumada S.A.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Alliance Boots’ 2nd transaction in the Retail sector.
  • This is Alliance Boots’ 1st transaction in Chile.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-05-06
Target Farmacias Ahumada S.A.
Sector Retail
Buyer(s) Alliance Boots
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Farmacias Ahumada S.A.

Santiago, Chile
Farmacias Ahumada is a network of pharmacies in Chile providing medicines, pharmacy products, nutritional supplements, beauty, hygiene, personal care and convenience items. Its store networks comprise five store formats: Farmacias Ahumada, Native, Farmarebajas, GNC and Guapa. At December 2013, it operated around 400 outlets in 98 cities, primarily in the central region of Chile, and it employed around 3,900 people.

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Buyer

Alliance Boots

Zug, Switzerland

Category Company
Sector Healthcare Services
DESCRIPTION

Alliance Boots GmbH is an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. Alliance Boots' pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses now operate more than 3,330 health and beauty retail stores in 11 countries and its pharmaceutical wholesale businesses supply medicines, other healthcare products and related services to more than 170,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals in 21 countries.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 7
Sector: Retail M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 4
Country: Chile M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-06 Farmacias Benavides S.A.B. de C.V.

Monterrey, Netherlands

Farmacias Benavides is a network of pharmacies in Mexico, providing medicines and pharmacy products, convenience items and health & beauty products. At December 2013, it comprised around 1,000 stores, with coverage of 21 states (over 150 cities, including Mexico City since 2013) and the Federal District, and it employed around 7,800 people.

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