All Health & beauty articles – Page 126
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Boots UK rejigs marketing and trading teams
Boots UK, the UK health and beauty arm of Alliance Boots, has restructured its marketing and trading teams as part of its ambition to become the world’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer.
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Boots slammed over supplier terms
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has named and shamed Alliance Boots as one of the worst payers to small suppliers.
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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.