Also it supports a large network of independent pharmacies and is in charge of a significant number of owned pharmacies.
At the end of the 80's , ornella barra started a pharmaceutical distribution company in italy, which was purchased by alleanza salute italia (now alliance healthcare italia) in the late. Antecedently to the merger of alliance unichem and boots group, ornella barra has been board member and executive director of alliance unichem since 1997 when unichem merged with alliance santé, the franco-italian group with interests spanning europe, of which she had been board member since 1990. ornella barra
is also in charge of boots international, the health&beauty retail business that operates abroad.
Doctors, health centres and hospitals from over 370 warehouses.