Stefano Pessina
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Bachelor of Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Italy
drugstores
$10,200,000,000
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#107 Billionaires 2019
Stefano Pessina heads the world's largest drugstore chain, Walgreens Boots Alliance.Pessina bought over 1,500 rival companies across Europe, merged his UniChem Group with Alliance Boots and took it private in a $22 billion deal. Between 2012 and 2014, Walgreens bought 100% of his pharmacy chain, creating Walgreens Boots Alliance. In 2018 Walgreens Boots Alliance replaced General Electric in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. His journey began in 1977 when Pessina took over his family's pharmaceutical wholesaler in Naples, Italy.
Pessina is a nuclear engineer by training. Pessina owns a yacht and is known to collect art.
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