Weston family to buy British retailer Boots for $8.9-billion with Fairfax backing

The Toronto-based Weston family’s holding company Wittington Investments Ltd. is buying the 1,800-store Boots chain from U.S. private equity fund Sycamore Partners, which acquired…

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