Jun 10, 2026 – 9.30amThe $33 billion Sigma Healthcare is leaning on Goldman Sachs’ bankers, as it weighs a bid for the $14 billion UK giant Boots.Chemist Warehouse founder Mario Verrocchi at Sigma’s AGM in October. Eamon GallagherSarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
Chemist Warehouse’s owner Sigma bankers up to weigh bid for UK’s Boots
It would see Chemist Warehouse’s owner lock horns with Canada’s wealthy Weston family, which owns the grocery chain Loblaws and the pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart.
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