Walgreens & Alliance Boots Continue to Advance Joint Vision with Appointment of Richard Ashworth as Healthcare Director, Heal...
06 November 2013 - 12:05AM
Business Wire
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG), the largest drugstore
chain in the U.S., and Alliance Boots GmbH, a leading international
pharmacy-led health and beauty group, today announced that Richard
Ashworth, Walgreens Corporate Operations Vice President for the
Western United States, has been appointed as Director of
Healthcare, Health & Beauty UK and Republic of Ireland
(ROI) at Alliance Boots. He will report to Simon Roberts, Managing
Director, Health & Beauty UK and ROI.
In this new role, Ashworth will bring his extensive leadership
and knowledge in health care and will work in close collaboration
with the experienced teams in both countries, to lead the
development and delivery of the health care strategy for Boots in
the UK and ROI.
Greg Wasson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens,
said, “Richard’s two decades of health care experience, leadership
and service to Walgreens in a variety of roles has been invaluable
to our company as we continued to develop our strategy to transform
community pharmacy. His move to Alliance Boots represents yet
another step forward and is further testament to the strong and
steady progress we are making in advancing our strategic
partnership.”
Stefano Pessina, Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots, said, “We
are very pleased to welcome Richard to our Group. His appointment
further illustrates the progress we continue to make towards
achieving our vision for the creation of the first global health
and wellbeing enterprise. As he familiarizes himself with the UK
and Irish markets, Richard’s experience at Walgreens will bring
positive benefits to Boots and the delivery of its health care
plans, as well as help further combine best practices of our two
companies.”
Ashworth’s appointment further contributes to the Walgreens and
Alliance Boots strategic partnership, announced in June 2012, when
the companies initiated a two-step process that would allow for the
thoughtful integration of the two organizations. The convergence
began at the end of 2012 with the establishment of a joint venture
in Switzerland and the transition of key Walgreens and Alliance
Boots executives to that entity, and continued with the appointment
of Alex Gourlay, former Chief Executive of Alliance Boots Health
& Beauty Division, as Walgreens Executive Vice President,
President of Customer Experience and Daily Living, in August
2013.
As Corporate Operations Vice President for Walgreens since 2011,
Ashworth, a pharmacist, led more than 2,000 locations in the
Western division, where he was primarily responsible for the
overall development and growth of all drugstores and health care
points of care. Joining the company in 1992 as a service clerk, he
has held various store operations leadership positions from
Pharmacy Supervisor to Market Vice President. He was promoted in
2007 to Executive Vice President of Pharmacy Benefit Management
services for Walgreens Health Initiatives, a subsidiary of
Walgreens. In that role, he led sales and client services, clinical
services and health outcomes, provider relations, and the operating
teams. In 2010, Ashworth was promoted to Vice President of Pharmacy
Operations, overseeing the clinical, operational and overall
development of Walgreens pharmacies nationwide and implementation
of pharmacy technology and services.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2013 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to be the
first choice in health and daily living for everyone in America,
and beyond. Each day, Walgreens provides more than 6 million
customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer
goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and
wellness services and advice in communities across America.
Walgreens scope of pharmacy services includes retail, specialty,
infusion, medical facility and mail service, along with respiratory
services. These services improve health outcomes and lower costs
for payers including employers, managed care organizations, health
systems, pharmacy benefit managers and the public sector. The
company operates 8,131 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens
subsidiary that is the largest and most comprehensive manager of
worksite health and wellness centers and in-store convenient care
clinics, with more than 750 locations throughout the country.
About Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots is a leading international, pharmacy-led health
and beauty group delivering a range of products and services to
customers. Working in close partnership with manufacturers and
pharmacists, we are committed to improving health in the local
communities we serve and helping our customers and patients to look
and feel their best. Our focus is on growing our two core
businesses: pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing and
pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution, while increasingly
developing and internationalising our product brands.
Alliance Boots has a presence in more than 25* countries and
employs over 108,000* people. Alliance Boots has pharmacy-led
health and beauty retail businesses in nine* countries and operates
more than 3,100* health and beauty retail stores, of which just
over 3,000* have a pharmacy. In addition, Alliance Boots has around
605* optical practices, of which around 190* operate on a franchise
basis, and around 390* hearing care practices. Our pharmaceutical
wholesale businesses deliver over 4.6 billion* units each year to
more than 170,000* pharmacies, doctors, health centres and
hospitals from over 370* distribution centres in 20* countries.
In June 2012, Alliance Boots announced that it had entered into
a strategic partnership with Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore
chain in the U.S., to create the first global pharmacy-led, health
and wellbeing enterprise.
* Figures are approximations as at 31 March 2013 and include
associates and joint ventures.
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