Walgreens Boots Alliance Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
April 18 2019 - 4:44AM
Business Wire
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced
that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly
dividend of 44 cents per share, unchanged from the previous quarter
and an increase of 10 percent over the year-ago quarter. The
dividend is payable June 12, 2019 to stockholders of record as of
May 20, 2019.
Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreen
Co., have paid a dividend in 346 straight quarters (more than 86
years) and have raised the dividend for 43 consecutive years.
Notes to Editors:
About Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is the first global
pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise. The company's
heritage of trusted health care services through community pharmacy
care and pharmaceutical wholesaling dates back more than 100
years.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is the largest retail pharmacy, health
and daily living destination across the U.S. and Europe. Walgreens
Boots Alliance and the companies in which it has equity method
investments together have a presence in more than 25 countries and
employ more than 415,000 people. The company is a global leader in
pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retail and, together with its
equity method investments, has more than 18,500 stores in 11
countries as well as one of the largest global pharmaceutical
wholesale and distribution networks, with more than 390
distribution centers delivering to more than 230,000 pharmacies,
doctors, health centers and hospitals each year in more than 20
countries. In addition, Walgreens Boots Alliance is one of the
world’s largest purchasers of prescription drugs and many other
health and wellbeing products.
The company’s portfolio of retail and business brands includes
Walgreens, Duane Reade, Boots and Alliance Healthcare, as well as
increasingly global health and beauty product brands, such as No7,
Soap & Glory, Liz Earle, Sleek MakeUP and Botanics.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is proud to be a force for good,
leveraging many decades of experience and its international scale,
to care for people and the planet through numerous social
responsibility and sustainability initiatives that have an impact
on the health and wellbeing of millions of people.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is included in Fortune magazine’s 2019
list of the World’s Most Admired Companies and ranked first in the
food and drugstore category. This is the 26th consecutive year that
Walgreens Boots Alliance or its predecessor company, Walgreen Co.,
has been named to the list.
More company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.
(WBA-DIV)
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: All
statements in this release that are not historical are
forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties,
including those described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of our Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 August 2018, which is
incorporated herein by reference, and in other documents that
Walgreens Boots Alliance files or furnishes with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or
uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove
incorrect, actual results may vary materially. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made.
Except to the extent required by law, Walgreens Boots Alliance does
not undertake, and expressly disclaims, any duty or obligation to
update publicly any forward-looking statement after the date of
this release, whether as a result of new information, future
events, changes in assumptions or otherwise.
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