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He is now both chief executive of and the single largest shareholder in the all-new entity Walgreens Boots Alliance,
他現在是全新實體沃爾格林博姿聯盟的首席執行官和單一最大股東，
which has also shifted headquarters from Switzerland.
該公司也將總部從瑞士轉移。
Its new home, Delaware, is described by Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network as “the longstanding leader among US states in providing opaque corporate structures”.
租稅正義網絡的亞歷克斯·科巴姆將其新總部特拉華州描述為“長期以來在提供不透明公司結構方面領先于美國各州”。
Last year, the new entity announced plans to buy the US chain Rite Aid,
去年，這家新實體宣布了收購美國連鎖企業來愛德公司的計劃，
a deal that will make it the largest pharmacist either side of the Atlantic – with 73-year-old Pessina at its head.
此次收購將使其成為大西洋兩岸最大的藥店，負責人是73歲的佩西納。
Just how much Pessina made personally out of Boots is hard to say, as many details are not in the public domain.
佩西納個人從博姿獲得了多少很難說，因為很多細節都不為公眾所知。
But going by the public information and assuming that Pessina sunk 1.25bn pounds of his own capital into the 2007 deal,
但根據公開的信息，假設佩西納在2007年的交易中投入了12.5億英鎊的自有資金，
Haslam calculates that he emerged with 214m shares in Walgreen, worth 11.5bn pounds.
哈斯拉姆估計，他在沃爾格林持有2.14億股股票，價值115億英鎊。
In seven years he turned that 1.25bn pounds into an estimated net gain of around £10bn.
在7年時間里，他將12.5億英鎊轉化為約100億英鎊的估計凈收益。
Asked for a response, neither Boots nor Pessina had anything to say on the record.
當被問及對此事的回應時，博姿和佩西納都沒有任何回應。
Driving back to his house, Tony had taken me on a tour of his Midlands hometown.
在開車回家的路上，托尼帶我去了一趟他位于英格蘭中部的家鄉。
He had pointed out the comprehensive where he was one of only two boys in his year to do A-level biology.
他指出，在綜合中學，他是他這一年級僅有的兩個學習高級水平生物學的男孩之一。
Back then, the school churned out pupils as “fodder for the metal bashing industries” – far rarer was the “academic type” like him.
當時，該校大量培養學生，作為“金屬制造業的人才”——像他這樣的“學術型”學生要少見得多。
