All Health & beauty articles – Page 135
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On a health kick
Lloydspharmacy managing director Richard Smith believes that high street pharmacists have a growing role supporting the NHS. Jennifer Creevy meets him.
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Tesco goes live with online opticians
Tesco has launched an online optical prescription service to take advantage of the fast-growing eyecare market.
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Boots UK shakes up top team
Boots UK – the pharmacy-led health and beauty retail arm of Alliance Boots – has rejigged its senior team to further accelerate the integration between the former Boots the Chemists and Alliance Pharmacy groups.
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London sales growth slows but still outperforms UK
Sales growth in central London has slowed by more than half compared with the same period last year, but continues to outstrip the rest of the UK.
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Airport retail bucks economic slump
Airport retail is beating the economic downturn and sales are expected to hit 30 billion this year.
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Russian pharmacy giant posts soaring sales
Russian health and beauty giant Pharmacy Chain 36.6 has delivered strong results for the first half of this year, as it ramps up its private label offer.
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Olympic hopefuls
As the London 2012 Olympics nears, British retailers need to prepare themselves for a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lisa Berwin reports.
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Inflation hits 4.4 per cent
Inflation has hit 4.4 per cent, more than twice the Government’s 2 per cent target and up by the highest amount since the Consumer Prices Index began in 1997.
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UK retail sales slip further
UK like-for-like retail sales fell 0.9 per cent in July compared with the same month last year.
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Alliance Boots closes on India deal
Alliance Boots is understood to be close to signing an agreement with Reliance Retail to enter India’s health and beauty market.
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Superdrug confident despite slip in profits
Health and beauty retailer Superdrug has reported a sales uplift of 6.8 per cent in its full year accounts, but a dip in pre-tax profits.
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Neal’s Yard to carve niche in Middle East with 50 stores
Hook: Neal’s Yard chief believes the Middle East is a key market for global growth.
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Consumer confidence plummets again
Consumers are becoming increasingly nervous, with consumer spending growth expected to slow to just 0.5 per cent next year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.
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Alliance Boots buys 25% of Athos Farma in Brazil
Alliance Boots has made its first foray into South America with its purchase of a 25 per cent stake in a Brazilian pharmaceutical wholesaler Athos Farma.
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Nose for the job
The Perfume Shop chief operating officer Jo Walker is so passionate about her job that she hardly ever takes a holiday. Jennifer Creevy asks why scents mean so much.
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Retailers rethink business travel
More than half of retailers say they have changed the way they consider business travel out of concern for the environment, a survey has revealed.
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Decathlon sets sights on 40 stores in UK growth assault
French sportswear retailer Decathlon is preparing to reignite its UK expansion with aggressive plans to ramp up its store portfolio.
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July sales volumes plummet
The Summer Sales have bought no respite for beleaguered retailers as they reported plummeting sales volumes in July.
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Space NK to open in US Bloomingdale’s stores
Health and beauty retailer Space NK has struck a deal with US department store Bloomingdale’s to open concessions in the US.