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Weighing strategic options for U.K.-based Boots

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FILE- A Boots Pharmacy in Central London is seen as people walk past it in an October 2005 file photo. Walgreen Co., a drugstore chain, announces it will invest $6.7 billion in Alliance Boots to purchase a stake. (AP Photo/Sergio Dionisio)

Sergio Dionisio

Walgreens Boots AllianceRoz Brewer CEO, said Tuesday that Boots is currently looking at strategic options.

Brewer, in a video presentation to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference confirmed that her company is looking at how best to deal with the U.K.-based chain of drugstores. Brewer did not specify if the sale would take place or who could be interested.

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