Bodycare
This coverage explores the bodycare segment within the UK retail industry, encompassing skincare, personal hygiene, wellness, and beauty essentials sold across supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialist retailers. Retail Sector reports on brand performance, product launches, category innovation, consumer trends, and sustainability initiatives driving growth in this competitive market. Coverage includes insights into supply-chain strategies, private-label development, and the influence of health and wellbeing trends on retail assortments. Aimed at retail professionals, this category provides actionable intelligence for buyers, category managers, and brand strategists navigating the evolving bodycare landscape.
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Oct- 2025 -29 OctoberHealth & Beauty
Charles Denton-led investor group acquires Bodycare assets
An investor group led by beauty sector executive Charles Denton has acquired certain assets of Bodycare, the long-standing value beauty retailer formerly operating across high streets in the North and Midlands. Denton will lead the business following the transaction, with the first wave of store reopenings planned for early 2026.…
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Sep- 2025 -23 SeptemberHealth & Beauty
Bodycare to close all remaining stores with 444 jobs lost
Bodycare is set to close all of its remaining stores, resulting in 444 redundancies, after administrators failed to secure a sale of the business. Interpath Advisory, which had been appointed as administrator, said it had continued discussions with a number of parties who expressed interest in the business, including the…
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16 SeptemberHealth & Beauty
Bodycare to shut 30 stores as administrators begin closure programme
Around 30 Bodycare shops are set to close this month after administrators said the health and beauty retailer could no longer keep all of its stores trading. Some of the affected sites will shut today (16 September) and 18 September, with all staff at those branches made redundant. Bodycare’s administrators…
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May- 2019 -29 MayHigh Street
WHSmith ranked worst retailer in Which? Survey
WHSmith has finished bottom of Which?’s annual UK high street shops survey rankings of more than 100 shops, while specialist retailers came out on top. The annual survey of more than 7,700 Which? members looked at the bricks-and-mortar shops offering the best in-store experiences. WHSmith finished with a customer score…
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