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Private equity returns to stalk high street favourites

Alliance Boots, owner of the iconic chemist chain and employer of 10,000 people in Scotland, yesterday became the latest high-profile British company to fall prey to a private equity stalker.

Alliance Boots, owner of the iconic chemist chain and employer of 10,000 people in Scotland, yesterday became the latest high-profile British company to fall prey to a private equity stalker.