Talk:Stefano Pessina

Article Improvements
Hello. As some of you may be aware, there are a small number of factual inaccuracies that should be reviewed and corrected in this article. In the interest of transparency I am declaring that I work for Alliance Boots. I hope to work with external editors to ensure that this Wikipedia article is accurate. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks.

Introductory Sentence

This sentence contains a factual inaccuracy. Here is the correction with relevant reference for verification:

Please replace “Italian” with “Monegasque.” Stefano Pessina’s nationality changed from Italian to Monegasque in 2012. (Reference: http://www.galenica.com/en/ueber-galenica/organisation/verwaltungsrat.php)

Side Bar

The article side bar would benefit from the inclusion of an additional important Group in the ‘board member of’ section that is currently not mentioned. Here is the additional piece of information with relevant reference for verification:

Board member of: Please add “Alliance Boots” alongside “Walgreens” (Reference: http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/alliance-boots-stefano-pessina-deals-are-still-my-drug-says-the-tycoon-loath-to-hang-up-his-boots-9128017.html)

This section also contains a factual inaccuracy. Here is the correction with relevant reference for verification:

Nationality: Please replace “Italian” with “Monegasque” Stefano Pessina’s nationality changed from Italian to Monegasque in 2012. (Reference: http://www.galenica.com/en/ueber-galenica/organisation/verwaltungsrat.php)

Personal Life

This section contains several factual inaccuracies. Here are the changes with relevant references for verification:

Please replace first sentence beginning “He has been separated…” with “He is separated from his wife Barbara, and they have two children. He has been the partner of Ornella Barra for over 30 years.” (Reference: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/business_interviews/article1164713.ece)

Please replace second sentence beginning “As of March 2013” with “As of March 2014, he is worth US$10.4 billion, owning about 8% of Walgreens and 18% of Alliance Boots.” (Reference: http://www.forbes.com/profile/stefano-pessina/)

Please replace the third sentence "As of 2014, his son, a banker, is joining Alliance Boots" with "His son, a banker, works at Alliance Boots"

Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks. SourcingABC (talk) 18:13, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Note: Having flagged these proposed factual changes for 7 days without comment, I have now updated the article. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks. SourcingABC (talk) 19:12, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

SourcingABC (talk) 17:19, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Having flagged these proposed factual changes for 3 days without comment, I have now updated the article. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks. SourcingABC (talk)

Hello. As some of you may be aware, there are a small number of factual inaccuracies that should be reviewed and corrected in this article. In the interest of transparency I am declaring that I work for Walgreens Boots Alliance. I hope to work with external editors to ensure that this Wikipedia article is accurate. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks.

"Stefano Pessina"

Please change "he has served as the Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots since 2007" to "Stefano Pessina is Executive Vice Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance" (Source: http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/12/5112567/update-greg-wasson-to-retire-as-walgreens-president-ceo-following-completion-of-m)

Side Bar

"Title": Please change to Stefano Pessina is Executive Vice Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance (Source: http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/12/5112567/update-greg-wasson-to-retire-as-walgreens-president-ceo-following-completion-of-m)

"Term": Please change "2007 – present" to "2015 – present" (Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1407840c-8124-11e4-896c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3PZWkHvKD)

"Board Member of": Please change "Board Member of Alliance Boots" to "He serves on the Board of Directors at Walgreens Boots Alliance" (Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/walgreen-alliance-boots-complete-merger-to-form-walgreens-boots-alliance-20141231-00115)

"Biography"

"Career" Please update to include: "Stefano served as Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots from 2007 – 2014" (Source: http://www.stefanopessina.com/about.html) Please also replace: "He has sat of the Board of Directors of Walgreens since August 2014" to "He sat on the Board of Directors of Walgreens until Aug 2014. He now serves on the Board of Directors at Walgreens Boots Alliance" (Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/walgreen-alliance-boots-complete-merger-to-form-walgreens-boots-alliance-20141231-00115)

"Personal Life" Please replace "Owning about 8% of Walgreens and 18% of Alliance Boots" to "Owning around 15% of Walgreens Boots Alliance" (Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8079f852-1ef7-11e4-9d7d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3PZWkHvKD)

Please replace "His son, a banker, works at Alliance Boots" to "His son, a banker, works at Walgreens Boots Alliance." — Preceding unsigned comment added by SourcingABC (talk • contribs) 09:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Having flagged these proposed factual changes for 3 days without comment, I have now updated the article. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Many thanks. SourcingABC (talk)

SourcingABC (talk) 15:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Article improvements
Hello, In the interest of transparency I am declaring that I work for Walgreens Boots Alliance. I would like to share with external editors information on Stefano Pessina's marital status, to ensure that this Wikipedia article is accurate.

He is in fact divorced and not separated. In the 'Personal Life' section, please replace first sentence "Pessina, though separated for 24 years, is still married to his wife, Barbara" with "He is divorced from his wife Barbara".

GretaBonsi (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * GretaBonsi do you have a reliable source for that please? Edwardx (talk) 15:29, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

There is an official divorce certificate. Being a purely biographical update, I hope it would be sufficient to provide this information in order to make the article more accurate. Thanks for your advice and collaboration GretaBonsi (talk) 09:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As this article is a biography, any update would be "purely biographical". We need to edit in accordance with Biographies of living persons and Identifying reliable sources, and you really should familiarise yourself with those policies. I am unable to find anything in a quick online search to substantiate an actual divorce. Indeed, a June 2016 article about Barra in Crain's Chicago Business specifically states, "The pair have been together since the 1980s and have no children; Pessina has not divorced his wife, Barbara, with whom he has two adult children." Please see Meet the new Walgreens COO who's also CEO Pessina's companion. Edwardx (talk) 15:02, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The following article published by La Repubblica on June 20th 2016 states, "he is 13 years her senior and has divorced his wife, with whom he has two children" . GretaBonsi (talk) 15:21, 6 December 2017 (UTC) GretaBonsi (talk) 15:24, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, consistently with what described and referenced in the 'Personal Life' section, Stefano Pessina's marital status should be changed from 'separate' to 'divorced' in the side-bar. Thanks

GretaBonsi (talk) 14:00, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Request edit

 * Article improvements

Hello, in the interest of transparency, I am declaring I work for Walgreens Boots Alliance. I would like to ask for two changes to the article, in the interest of accuracy:

UK Labour Party Controversy - The following sentence: "He currently makes 540 times the median employee for the company. Pharmacists for the company have not received any raises in over four years.[citation needed]" is unsourced and it also doesn’t seem to have any relation with the topic of this section. I believe this sentence should be removed.

Career - The following sentence: "Pessina was chairman of Alliance Boots from 2007 to 2014 and currently serves as Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Pessina is a director of Walgreens Boots Alliance" is incomplete, as he is Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance. I think it should therefore be replaced with the following "Pessina was chairman of Alliance Boots from 2007 to 2014 and currently serves as Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, the company created through the combination of Walgreens and Alliance Boots in December 2014"

Can you please take a moment to review? Thanks for your advice. Please contact me on my Talk Page if you have any questions. Thanks GretaBonsi (talk) 15:46, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Reply 16-MAY-2019
Regards, Spintendo  04:54, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) ❌ The asked for changes regarding the subject's positions are already in the article. The subject is described in the lead section as the vice chairman, chief executive officer of WBA."
 * 2) ✅ The uncited claim was omitted.

Edit request
Hello, I believe the Career section of this article should be updated by removing the words in bracket "(possibly Petrone Group)". This information has been added few months ago but still lacks necessary reference. In the interest of transparency, I declare I work for WBA. I would be thankful if you could review this proposed change. Thank you GretaBonsi (talk) 17:25, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Email Fraud Warning
I just received a funny email from "Stefano Pessina" promising a donation of 1 million Euro to me (who else?!). New to me was that this email contained a link to this article. In the edit history I saw that someone else was trying to note this fact in the article, what is of course inappropriate. I assume that Mr. Pessina does not have a clou about mails beeing sent in his name. I came here to see if the spammers had tried to place any dangerous links in this page. I could not find one but anyone else is invited to check this too. -- Dr. George (T) 06:44, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I recieved the (probably) same email. I don't see what is the purpose of it apart from collecting email-addresses, but perhaps there is some other use for the writer of this mail. Maybe Mr. Pessina will become aware of it when we leave these comments here. --Thomas Gebhardt (talk) 12:48, 10 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Got the same e-mail (exactly how I got here). Two, in fact. Same text, same links. Funny, the messages came from one address, but the contact e-mail in the messages themselves is different (although both include S.Pessina's name). These scam-spammers really don't seem to learn, do they?--87.255.89.160 (talk) 13:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Edit: Apparently the fake S.Pessina offers different sums to different people. In the messages I got, he offered $1,200,000.00 (since I got the message twice, does that mean he offered me $2,400,000.00?). The removed wiki-edit mentions $20 million (in spite of the misplaced dots, it's clearly 20 mil.). Dr.George claims they were offered 1 million Euros. This begins to feel like some cookie auction. :D --87.255.89.160 (talk) 13:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment The reason why such emails are so obviously fake is that scammers are looking for the most gullible people - those prepared to pay smaller sums in the hope of getting a large windfall, and they want to weed out "false positives", those who might go along with the scam for a while but never send any money. This is widely discussed, for example There's a reason Nigerian scammers are so obvious in their emails. Edwardx (talk) 22:55, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Making clear abbreviation "WBA" is for this page to avoid cofusion with West Bromwich Albion
Boots is a UK company first and foremost. In the UK, "WBA" is a common accronym for "West Bromwich Albion". To avoid confusion I have added a simple clarifier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:3D07:E800:D89F:8BA3:2ABD:66F (talk) 14:20, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Darowizna 2.000.000
Dostałem maila, że mój adres e-mail został wytypowany do otrzymania darowizny w wysokości 2.000.000, jeżeli to co dalej 83.22.90.143 (talk) 22:08, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Phishing attempts linking to this wiki page as reference/ credibility
I got a phishing email indicating this person is giving away 25% of their wealth to individuals. And to contact them for more info. It would be good to have some section here to give the truth on that to protect people. 99.100.181.110 (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Can confirm MiaPoopy (talk) 01:45, 17 February 2024 (UTC)