RebeccaSD published Top 200 companies: Boots

Pharmacy-led health and beauty giant Boots is Nottingham's biggest private sector company with nearly 6,500 staff on its Beeston site.Founded as we know it today by Jesse Boot, his father John began as a herbalist with a shop on Goose Gate on the edge of the Lace Market. Today, Boots has more than 2,500 stores across the UK taking the workforce to over 60,000.The company turns over £6.4 billion a year (making it number one in our listing) and the last set of accounts for 2013/14 show that,