All Health & beauty articles – Page 143
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Ocado to expand beyond food
Ocado is to expand beyond food into areas such as clothing and health and beauty as it notches up sales of 1 billion.
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Medicine man
With his passion for organic produce, Jonathan Hook was the natural choice to head Neal’s Yard Remedies. He tells Jennifer Creevy why the retailer has a strong future
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Walgreens slows growth to curb expenditure
Walgreens is to scale back its drugstore growth in an effort to reduce its capital expenditure by about US$500 million ( 251.2 million) over the next three financial years.
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Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year
Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.
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Shop price rise for June stays below inflation
June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
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Bags of passion
Having launched Liberty of London’s standalone store, Tamara Salman tells Amy Shields about her aims for the luxury accessories brand’s expansion
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Inside Westfield London
20 years in the making, the UK’s most eagerly awaited shopping centre is finally taking shape. Tim Danaher gets a preview of Westfield London as it gears up for its opening in October
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Former Body Shop employee fined for insider dealing
A former Body Shop employee has been fined 85,000 for insider dealing in the retailer’s shares.
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Superdrug launches rival to Boots' anti-ageing range
Superdrug has launched a rival to Boots’ popular anti-aging cream Perfect & Protect Beauty Serum.
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Amplifon starts rapid rebranding of UK portfolio
Amplifon, the Italian retailer and distributor of hearing aids and related services, is to start rebranding its 147 UK stores this week.
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May online sales hit £4.5 billion
Online spending in May rose to more than 4.5 billion, an increase of 1.6 per cent on April, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.
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Pessina vows to stay the distance
Stefano Pessina this week promised to invest in Alliance Boots for the long term as he revealed a sparkling year for the health and beauty business which he took private in June last year.
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Opinion
Boots’ alliance has passed test
Cast your mind back a year, to the days when barely a week passed without Retail Week revealing the next big private equity deal.
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Boots profits soar
Alliance Boots has unveiled a strong performance in its first year as a private company.
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Superdrug hires new finance director
Superdrug owner AS Watson has appointed Gill Smith as finance director for its UK health and beauty group.
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NewsAlliance Boots to move HQ to Switzerland
Alliance Boots is to move its headquarters from the UK to Switzerland to signal that the health and beauty giant is a big international player, according to newspaper reports.
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Superdrug signs pop icon for skin campaign
Health and beauty retailer Superdrug has scored a coup by signing pop star Leona Lewis to front its skin safety campaign Shunburn.
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Neal’s Yard gears up for expansion
Natural health and well-being retailer Neal’s Yard Remedies is to ramp up its expansion programme to give it 50 stores by 2010.
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Sight for sore eyes
Specsavers co-founder Dame Mary Perkins was at the forefront of opticians shaking their tired image to become fashion-led businesses. She tells Jennifer Creevy how her chain has grown
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Amazon UK chases cosmetics share
Amazon UK has expanded its product categories with the launch of an online health and beauty shop in an effort to take a share of the lucrative cosmetics market.