Alliance Boots is the leading pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer in global top 500 enterprises with its business in more than 20 countries all over the world. AB has 370 warehouses and 135,000 customers, including pharmacies, hospitals, health care centres and so on, and over 3,250 health care and retail stores.

As of the financial year of 2010 (by March 31,2011), the Group achieved gross income up to GBP 23.3 billion and the profit of GBP 1.4 billion

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao welcomed the British Delegation led by British Premier Cameron (AB Chairman Stefano Pessina was in the delegation)