据报道，高街药店博姿（Boots）的私募股权所有者即将达成一项协议，以90亿美元（约合70亿英镑）的价格将该业务出售给亿万富翁韦斯顿（Weston）家族的加拿大分支。
The private equity owner of high street pharmacy Boots is reportedly closing in on a deal to sell the business to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family for $9bn (£7bn).
2025年以237亿美元收购了沃尔格林博姿联合公司（Walgreens Boots Alliance）的西卡莫合伙公司（Sycamore Partners）据称正与韦斯顿家族进行深入谈判。《金融时报》报道称，交易最快可能于下周完成。
Sycamore Partners, which bought the wider Walgreens Boots Alliance for $23.7bn in 2025, is said to be in advanced talks with the Westons, with the Financial Times reporting that a deal could be completed as soon as next week.
如果交易成功，这将标志着韦斯顿家族的加拿大分支重返英国高街，该家族此前曾拥有塞尔福里奇百货公司（Selfridges）。
If successful, it would mark the return of the Canadian branch of the Weston family to the UK high street, having previously owned Selfridges.
该家族后来于2022年以40亿英镑的价格出售了该百货连锁店。韦斯顿家族在加拿大广为人知，他们拥有杂货店Loblaws和药店连锁Shoppers Drug Mart。
The family later sold the department store chain for £4bn in 2022. The Westons are widely known throughout Canada for owning the grocery store Loblaws and the pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart.
该家族的英国分支通过独立的投资工具运营其业务，以通过母公司英国联合食品公司（Associated British Foods）持有普利马克（Primark）的多数股权而闻名。
The UK branch of the family, which operates its businesses through a separate investment vehicle, are known for holding a majority stake in Primark through the parent company Associated British Foods.
在韦斯顿家族达成潜在交易的消息传出之前，西卡莫合伙公司曾试图将博姿出售给澳大利亚制药集团Sigma Healthcare，但未能成功。今年夏天的那笔交易本可使该业务估值达到100亿美元。
News of the prospective Weston deal comes months after Sycamore tried and failed to sell Boots to the Australian pharmaceutical group Sigma Healthcare in a deal that would have valued the business at $10bn this summer.
自去年收购沃尔格林博姿联合公司以来，外界普遍预期西卡莫合伙公司会将博姿及集团的其他部分拆分并出售。目前，该公司已将集团拆分为五家独立的公司。
Sycamore has been widely expected to spin off and sell Boots – alongside other parts of the group – after its takeover of the Walgreen Boots Alliance last year. It as has already split the group into five stand-alone companies.
博姿由约翰·博特（John Boot）于1849年在诺丁汉创立，在过去20年中几经易手。2006年与Alliance Unichem合并后，合并后的公司于2007年被私募股权公司KKR收购，随后沃尔格林（Walgreens）于2012年首次收购了其45%的股份，并于2014年底完成了全面收购。
Boots, which was founded in Nottingham in 1849 by John Boot, has changed hands several times in the past 20 years. After a merger with Alliance Unichem in 2006 the combined company was taken over by the private equity firm KKR in 2007 before Walgreens first took a 45% stake in 2012 and then completed a takeover at the end of 2014.
博姿在英国拥有1800家门店，雇佣了约5.1万名员工，其中包括位于诺丁汉西南三英里处比斯顿（Beeston）总部的约6000名员工。
Boots – which has 1,800 stores across the UK – employs about 51,000 people, including about 6,000 at its headquarters in Beeston, three miles south-west of Nottingham.
今年夏天，该公司报告称，截至2025年8月底的财年营收增长3.2%，达到75亿英镑，税前利润增长25%，至3.37亿英镑。该公司表示，减肥注射剂和美容产品的强劲需求有助于其利润增长。屈臣氏（Boots）拒绝置评。
This summer it reported that revenues had risen 3.2% to £7.5bn in the year to the end of August 2025, with pre-tax profit up by 25% to £337m. It said strong demand for weight loss jabs and beauty products had helped increase its profits. Boots declined to comment.