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Australian billionaires’ Sigma Healthcare in talks to buy U.K.’s Boots in deal valued at $10 billion

Sigma Healthcare—which counts Australian billionaire brothers Jack and Sam Gance and their business partner Mario Verrochi as its biggest shareholders—has been seeking to expand in the U.K.

Prescription for growth: Inside Chemist Warehouse’s $9 billion merger

Mario Verrocchi, co-founder and CEO of the pharmacy unicorn is hoping for 400 more stores in Aus and 70+ duty-free outposts in China. Verrocchi will continue to run the Chemist Warehouse Group once the reverse merger with Sigma takes place. He may no longer have the CEO title in the new entity, but his vision for simultaneous global and local expansion stays the same.