All Health & beauty articles – Page 127
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Analysis
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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News
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.
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Alliance Boots to reinvest profits
Alliance Boots’ backers have vowed not to take any cash out of the business for at least two years as they plough profits back into the retail and wholesale company’s growth plans.
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D&A links its stores for SAP system roll-out
Dollond & Aitchison has gone live with a wide area network in preparation for the roll-out of SAP systems to its stores.
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AnalysisThe weirdest jobs in retail
From professional pet food tasters to the man who makes a living blowing up toasters, Charlotte Dennis-Jones talks to the people with the most unusual jobs in retail
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News
ONS retail sales growth slows
Sales volume growth has slowed over the past three months as the household sector reported the largest fall in sales volumes for three years.
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Health and beauty retailers poised for record year
Health and beauty retailers are likely to enjoy their best growth in a decade this year, despite the wider consumer slowdown.
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AnalysisIrish charm
A friendly business culture and a free rein have made Rhys Iley’s directorship of Boots Ireland a refreshing change. He tells Charlotte Dennis-Jones what’s different on the Emerald Isle
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News
Alliance Boots to unleash potential of power brands
Health and beauty market leader Alliance Boots is to establish a brands division to unleash the massive potential of its proprietary products in the UK and overseas.
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Bankers agree deal to offload Alliance Boots’ debt
KKR-owned Alliance Boots’ bankers are understood to have reached an agreement in principle to sell at least 2 billion of the health and beauty chain’s debt to a private equity consortium comprising Apollo, Blackstone and TPG.
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Opinion
Hopes live on for Boots debt deal
The idea that debt markets may be starting to relax again looked like a triumph of hope over experience as renewed attempts by Alliance Boots’ lenders to offload loans came to nought.
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Lush on mission to double UK stores after 30% rise in profits
Handmade-cosmetics retailer Lush will forge ahead with its expansion plans after posting a 30 per cent uplift in group pre-tax profits to 10.3 million.
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Specsavers setting its sights on £1bn sales
Optician Specsavers is gunning to hit sales of 1 billion next year as it steps up its plans for global expansion.
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Superdrug software to improve ranging
Superdrug is to implement space and category management software in the next six months to increase sales and support its expansion.
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Vision Express acquires 75-store rival
Vision Express has added 75 stores to its portfolio with the acquisition of Batemans Opticians parent company GC Bateman.
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Vision Express snaps up G C Bateman
High street Optician Vision Express has bought 70-store family business G C Bateman Group for an undisclosed sum.
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Baker to join Virgin Active
Former Boots chief executive Richard Baker is to become chairman of Sir Richard Branson’s health and fitness chain Virgin Active.
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OFT launches fresh probe into supermarket price fixing
The UK’s four biggest grocers are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for allegedly fixing prices of health, beauty and grocery products.
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Boots kick-starts online recruiting move with tool to find store staff
Boots is to implement an online recruitment tool for use by store managers by the end of June, as part of a wider roll-out for all recruitment.
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Boots’ customers’ bank details stolen
A theft from a courier van in Bristol has resulted in the personal details of more than 34,000 Alliance Boots customers and staff being stolen.