Health & Beauty
Health & Beauty covers the business developments, brand strategies, and consumer trends shaping the UK’s personal care, cosmetics, and wellness retail sectors. This section reports on product innovation, sustainability initiatives, partnerships, and market performance across high street, pharmacy, and online retailers. Retail Sector’s Health & Beauty coverage provides analysis and insight for retail professionals and suppliers, exploring how evolving lifestyles, regulation, and consumer priorities are influencing growth and competition in this dynamic category.
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Jun- 2022 -8 June
Boots to freeze prices on 1,500 own label products
Boots has announced a commitment to freeze the price of 1,500 own label products to help ensure they remain affordable as the cost of living crisis continues to escalate. Its own label lines, with products including everyday essentials such as toothpaste, shampoo, nappies and shower gel, will be price locked…
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May- 2022 -25 May
Glossier CEO to step down
Glossier has announced that its founder and chief executive officer (CEO), Emily Weiss, will step down as CEO, a role she has held since 2014. Subsequently, Weiss will become an executive chairwoman of the company to focus on supporting the business’ leaders of creative, brand, product and retail. In her…
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20 May
THG rejects £2bn bid as Nick Candy eyes takeover
THG announced it has rejected a takeover bid of over £2bn from the investment companies Belerion Capital Group Limited (Belerion) and King Street Capital Management L.P. (King Street). The announcement comes as the board confirms it is in the early stages of considering a possible offer from Nick Candy, owner…
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11 May
Beauty Bay drafts in advisors after IPO stalls
Online beauty platform Beauty Bay has reportedly hired bankers to explore options for the group after plans for its IPO stalled. According to Sky News, it has drafted in US-based Threadstone Capital, which previously advised Cult Beauty on its sale to THG, to advise it. Sources told Sky that options…
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11 May
Superdrug expands same day delivery service to Scotland
Superdrug has expanded its same-day, ‘Store to Door’, courier service to customers in Scotland, now available to those within approximately a five mile radius of nine Scottish Superdrug stores within the Glasgow and Edinburgh regions. The service allows shoppers to order products directly from their local store. Powered by delivery…
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9 May
Revolution Beauty FY22 sales soar amid Boots partnership
Revolution Beauty has welcomed a “record” Q4 in its latest full-year trading update, attributing the success to its Boots and Walgreens expansions, with half-year sales rocketing 44% year-on-year for the year ended 28 February 2022. The beauty group reported a revenue of £194m, up 42% against the year ending 28…
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4 May
THG boss eyes plans to grow capacity to £14bn orders a year
THG boss Matthew Moulding is reportedly eyeing up plans to increase its capacity in order to handle up to £14bn worth of orders a year, according to the Daily Mail. The outlet reported that Moulding has told city investors he is looking to invest an additional £200m to open a…
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Apr- 2022 -28 April
Superdrug freezes prices on over 100 products
Superdrug has announced that it is freezing the prices of over 100 everyday essential products across personal care, beauty and healthcare in a bid to help customers with the current cost of living crisis. The health and beauty retailer said it will freeze these prices for at least one year,…
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12 April
Fragrance Direct relaunches website one year after Maximo acquisition
Online beauty retailer Fragrance Direct has revamped its website and unveiled a brand refresh – one year after it was acquired by the Maximo group. Fragrance Direct has now migrated its website from a third-party platform onto a proprietary solution owned and developed by the Maximo Group. The opportunity arose…
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7 April
Boots launches Price Advantage scheme online
Boots has extended its Price Advantage scheme by making it available to customers online, after having originally launched in stores in January. The scheme initially offered 150 products in stores when it was launched, but now it has been expanded to include over 300 additional products across categories including beauty,…
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