Boots

Founded by John Boots, the pharmacy, beauty and health retailer has been a mainstay of the British high street for 175 years. Boots’ pharmacy-led outlets provide optician and hearing care services and digital photo printing. It sells clothing, food and drink, alongside its many beauty and health products. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Boots and the health and beauty sector.

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Boots and Anya Hindmarch collaborate for London pop-up
2026-01-14T16:21:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
High street health and beauty chain Boots has collaborated with luxury accessories brand Anya Hindmarch on a new 1970s inspired pop-up
Analysis
In pictures: the best new concept and flagship store openings of the year
2025-12-23T16:00:00+00:00By Fergus Wolfenden
We’re almost at the end of 2025, which has been a bumper year for shopfloor innovation, theatrical flagships and new-to-market concept stores. Here are some of the best new stores that opened this year
Opinion
‘Retail’s 12 gifts of Christmas – and beyond’
2025-12-19T06:30:00+00:00By George MacDonald
From keeping the cost of living down for customers to support for all sorts of good causes, retailers’ generosity has once again been unstinting this year. Christmas is the busiest time for retailers, but it’s also an appropriate moment to reflect on the industry’s invaluable role as a force for good.

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Data

Ranking: Retail’s biggest winners and losers in business rates revaluation

2025-12-16T12:00:00+00:00By George Arnett

Some retailers are facing increases of hundreds of thousands of pounds in their business rates on certain properties, while Harrods’ bill is set to fall by over £1m

Feature

Future Leaders 2025 - Who will be the CEOs of the future?

2025-12-01T06:30:00+00:00By Ellis Hawthorne

Meet 20 of UK retail’s most promising leaders-in-waiting. Every individual on our list has the talent, drive and passion to make it to the top, and they’re going to need it if they want to succeed in an industry dominated by crushing government regulation, devastating cyberattacks, harrowing tales of abuse from the shop floor and more. Here are British retail’s future chief executives, but who would want to be one?

Retailer payments back up and running after Cloudflare outage
2025-11-19T07:30:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
Reviewed: The best retailer Christmas adverts of the year
2025-11-17T07:00:00+00:00By Ellis Hawthorne
Boots completes acquisition of diagnostics firm to expand private testing
2025-11-14T10:56:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
Uber Eats adds new tech features for last-minute Christmas shopping
2025-11-10T07:00:00+00:00

Boots appoints ex-John Lewis director to marketing role
2025-11-06T12:47:00+00:00By George MacDonald
The beauty players daring to do things differently with bricks and mortar
2025-10-30T06:00:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
Q&A: Boots head of wellness on the rapidly expanding category and tapping into viral trends
2025-10-28T14:54:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
First look: Inside Boots’ debut fragrance-only store
2025-10-22T14:22:00+01:00By Megan Robinson

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