Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number:1709H
Alliance Boots plc
02 August 2006

                               Alliance Boots plc

                                 (the Company)

                             DIRECTOR SHAREHOLDINGS

                                  31 July 2006

Following their appointment on 31 July 2006 to the board of the Company
(formerly Boots Group PLC) upon completion of the merger between Alliance
UniChem Plc (Alliance UniChem) and the Company (the Merger), the following
directors notified the Company on 31 July 2006 of their interests in the
ordinary shares of 37 7/39 pence each in the Company.

Save in the case of Scott Wheway, these interests in the shares of the Company
were acquired as a result of the scheme of arrangement sanctioned by the Court
to give effect to the Merger pursuant to which all shares in Alliance UniChem
were cancelled and former Alliance UniChem shareholders received 1.332 shares in
the Company for every share held in Alliance UniChem.

Director                             Number of shares held in the Company   Percentage of issued share capital
                                                                                                in the Company
Stefano Pessina                                               145,048,918                              14.9913
George Fairweather                                                 83,171                               0.0086
Ornella Barra                                                     559,021                               0.0578
Steve Duncan                                                       64,419                               0.0067
Adrian Loader                                                       8,159                               0.0008
Patrick Ponsolle                                                      666                               0.0001
Manfred Stach                                                           -                                    -
Scott Wheway                                                        4,567                               0.0004

Note: Almost all of the interest of Stefano Pessina (144,749,810 shares out of
145,048,918 shares) are held by Alliance Sante Participations S.A..  Stefano
Pessina indirectly wholly owns Alliance Sante Participations S.A., the directors
of which include Stefano Pessina and Ornella Barra.  The other interests of
Ornella Barra in shares held in the Company are as set out above.



Enquiries

Richard Constant
Gavin Anderson & Company    [phone]


Gerald Gradwell / Marco Pagni
Alliance Boots plc         [phone]




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