Allen John Lloyd (born May 1949) is a British businessman, who was the founder of LloydsPharmacy, a British pharmacy company, with more than 1,600 pharmacies, and around 17,000 staff.
Allen John Lloyd was born in May 1949,[1] the son of a newsagent from Coventry.
As teenager, he took a Saturday job in a Coventry branch of Timothy Whites and studied pharmacy at Leicester Polytechnic.
[2] He started as a pharmacist working for Boots the Chemist, but when he was told that he was "not management material", he decided to start his own business.
In 1997, the German chain Celesio (previously called GEHE AG) bought Lloyds Chemists PLC, which at the time had 902 pharmacies, for £684 million against competition from rival Unichem.