{"id":639170,"date":"2026-06-15T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639170\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:26:09","slug":"australias-sigma-healthcare-drops-pursuit-of-uk-pharmacy-chain-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639170\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Sigma Healthcare drops pursuit of UK pharmacy chain Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Sigma Healthcare said on Monday it had \u200cwalked away from preliminary talks \u200cto buy British pharmacy chain Boots, concluding that \u200ba potential deal would not meet its strategic and capital investment objectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer had \u200csaid earlier this \u2060month that it was evaluating a possible acquisition of \u2060Boots following media reports that it was among the bidders for the \u200bUK health \u200band beauty \u200bretailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sigma said it \u200chad considered the opportunity as a way to accelerate its expansion in the United Kingdom through Boots&#8217; established brand and extensive footprint but decided \u200cnot to proceed following \u200ban initial review.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bcompany said \u200binternational growth remains one of \u200cits key strategic pillars \u200band reiterated \u200bits commitment to expanding in core offshore markets while exploring opportunities \u200bin \u200cnew regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Roshan Thomas in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong \u200band Subhranshu Sahu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Sigma Healthcare said on Monday it had \u200cwalked away from preliminary talks \u200cto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,61662,59,57,58,50,215685,194054,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-australia","tag-boots","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-pharmacy-chain","tag-sigma-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}