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Boots in numbers

We are the largest health and beauty retailer in the UK and are at the heart of community pharmacy supporting patients nationwide. Here are some of the key numbers from across our business:

Team members

  • We employ over 51,000 Boots UK, No7 Beauty Company, Boots Ireland and Boots Opticians team members
  • Over 4,700 are registered pharmacists
  • Around 15,000 Boots Pharmacy Technicians, Dispensers, Advisors and Healthcare Sales Assistants
  • We have over 1,500 brand agnostic Boots Beauty Specialists
  • Over 4,500 Macmillan trained colleagues across our stores who support people living with cancer

Store footprint

  • We have over 1,800 stores
  • Over 140 stores with a reinvented healthcare area and over 185 reinvented beauty halls
  • Over 600 donation points for The Hygiene Bank, and Recycle at Boots deposit points available in over 800 stores

Boots.com and omnichannel

  • Boots.com is the UK’s number one most visited health and beauty website
  • 43,000+ product lines on boots.com as well as advice and guidance on a wealth of health, beauty and wellness topics
  • Over 17m active Boots Advantage Card members - nearly half of all women in the UK
  • On-demand delivery available from over 500 stores via Deliveroo, Uber Eats and JustEat
  • The Boots app has 8.6m active users

Healthcare

  • Boots is number one for dispensing prescription items in the UK and dispenses millions of prescription items per week
  • Over 750 retail healthcare brands available and almost one in two healthcare products sold are Boots own brand
  • Over 200 healthcare services delivered on behalf of the NHS and paid for, including 45 services through Boots Online Doctor

Beauty

  • The UK's favourite beauty retailer**
  • Exclusive home of No7 – the UK’s number one skincare brand
  • Over 500 beauty brands available across every price point
  • Launched 60+ new beauty and fragrance brands since August 2025
  • Ignite programme has launched 38 of the latest emerging global brands since December 2024
  • Over 760 Pharmacists specially trained to offer clinical skincare advice for free in store

Wellness

  • 750+ new wellness lines launched in the last year, and over 40 brands introduced since August 2025
  • New wellness zones available in six stores across the UK
  • 500 Health and Wellness Specialists available across 140 stores to offer product and lifestyle advice and recommendations

 

 *All figures accurate as at 28 February 2026

**Source: Kantar’s Worldpanel | Total Market | Mass & Premium Beauty Category | Mass: 52w/e 26th January 2025 & Prestige: 52 w/e 5th January 2025 | Number one measured by GB Spend Share %

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