Boots boss more than doubles pay to £3.8m as chain triples profits

Boots’ trade has picked up in the past 18 months after a lean time during the Covid pandemic. Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA

The Boots boss, Seb James, more than doubled his pay to £3.8m last year after the chemist chain tripled profits as pandemic restrictions eased.

In the year to 31 August, the beauty retail and pharmacy business made a pre-tax profit of £137m across its three entities that file accounts at Companies House, up from £44.5m a year before, while sales rose by just under 10% to nearly £7.8bn.