RE: Boots Results5 Jan 2023 16:23
Anacotts credit. Not mines. Just keeping it tidy and where it can be seen.
"More positive news from the UK’s high streets with Boots UK reporting sales were up around 15% in December, compared with a year earlier.
The health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain, part of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, said gifting, beauty and fragrance lines all performed “extremely well” while there was also an uptick in sales of over-the-counter medicines for “colds and immunity.”
Footfall at its stores rose by about 8% as it administered more than 1.4mln flu vaccinations and over 220,000 Covid jabs while a further boost came as city centre stores benefitted from the return to the office, the group said.
Boots UK also reports a “record-breaking Black Friday” with boots.com recording its biggest ever day of sales.
Like-for-like sales in the September-November quarter were up 8.7% year-on-year.
Sebastian James, managing director of Boots UK & ROI, said it was “another positive quarter” for the group.