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Walgreens
The Walgreen Company (Walgreens, or sometimes archaically Walgreen) is the largest〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/06/walgreen-results-idUSL3N0UL4XF20150106 )〕 drug retailing chain in the United States. As of May 31, 2014, the company operated 8,217 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.
In 2014, the company agreed to purchase the remaining 55% of Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it did not already own to form a global business. Under the terms of the purchase, the two companies merged to form a new holding company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., on December 31, 2014. Walgreens became a subsidiary of the new company, which retains its Deerfield headquarters and trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol .
==Overview==
Walgreens provides access to consumer goods and services, plus pharmacy, photo studio, health and wellness services in the United States through its retail drugstores, Walgreens Health Services division, and Walgreens Health and Wellness division. Walgreens had 8,206 drugstores as of January 31, 2014.〔http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/WAG/0x0x723371/f884ddb6-d984-44e5-b5c0-e8b7a84c5fb0/WAG_News_2014_2_5_Monthly_Sales.pdf〕 Walgreens runs several online stores, such as: Beauty.com, Drugstore.com and VisionDirect.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Store Count by State (as of December 2012) )〕
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