"His spare record does raise significant concerns," said Nan Aron, president of the liberal legal group Alliance for Justice.
In 1991, Pessina set up a parallel French group, Alliance Santé, which started buying companies in Europe and beyond.
Alliance Boots was formed in 2006 by the £7bn merger of Boots and Pessina's European drugs wholesaling group, Alliance UniChem.
(The team's official fan group, Alliance, can petition for a vote at any time, with twenty per cent approval from its membership).
"Sabena is not helping Swissair in any way," said Monica Bielsa, a saleswoman for all airlines in the Qualiflyer group alliance, which includes Swissair and Sabena.
But the Edwards campaign may have expected the support of the group, Alliance for a New America, set up by a local of the Service Employees International Union.
Judged purely on test scores, or scholastic reputation, another group, Alliance for College-Ready probablychools, is probably the premier charter-school-management organization in Los Angeles.
By the end of his first year, according to a report by the liberal group Alliance for Justice, he had nominated 65 federal judges and 28 were confirmed.
Andrea Guerrero, the executive director of the community group Alliance San Diego, told the Guardian that Tijuana and San Diego are "one community, with one heart".
Andy Hornby, the man running HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds bank in 2008, has unexpectedly quit his £1m-a-year job as chief executive of healthcare group Alliance Boots with immediate effect.
