{"id":49940,"date":"2020-11-25T18:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stefano-pessina\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:23:04","slug":"stefano-pessina","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/stefano-pessina\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefano Pessina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Italian pharmaceutical magnate and chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance. He moved to Monaco decades ago and has relinquished his Italian citizenship for Mon\u00e9gasque. Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman and the largest shareholder of Walgreen Boots Alliance. He is worth $ 10.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n<p>He is a graduate of the Milan Polytechnic where he obtained his degree in nuclear engineering. In 1970, he joined the family business specialising in the distribution of pharmaceutical products. He restructured and developed the company. <\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I restructured the company and acquired several Italian pharmaceutical distributors to create the largest distributor on the peninsula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"58601\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stefano-pessina\/stefano-pessina-boots\/\" class=\"wp-image-58602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-boots-175x117.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"58605\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stefano-pessina\/stefano-pessina\/\" class=\"wp-image-58606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-505x300.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-253x150.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stefano-pessina-175x104.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<p>His activities will expand in Europe from 1988 where he made 1500 acquisitions allowing him to create the Alliance Sant\u00e9 group. Its slogan is &#8220;helping people to be well and feel good&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 1997, his group merged with the British company UniChem and then with Boots. This gave rise to Alliance Boots. It also moved closer to the American Walgreens in 2012. <\/p>\n\n<p>He has been married to Ornella Barra since 1985; she is co-director of the Walgreens Boots Alliance. Pessina was previously divorced and has two adult children.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2017, Stefano won the Golden Plate Award, presented by the American Academy of Achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47085,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"listing-category":[2128,2127],"class_list":["post-49940","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-entreprise-finance","listing-category-celebrities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stefano Pessina - Monaco Tribune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/stefano-pessina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stefano Pessina\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Italian pharmaceutical magnate and chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance. 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