Alliance Boots will race to complete the entire rebranding of its opticians business before the end of the current financial year, it was claimed this week.
And, in answering a question posed by OT at an annual gathering of journalists to discuss its preliminary results, its health and beauty division chief executive said the company expected to go on a recruitment drive for its expanded Boots Opticians chain.
In what was described by Boots as a retail market of ‘subdued’ consumer demand, the overall business did well, its annual trading profit smashing through the £1bn mark for the first time (for the year to March 31).
