All Health & beauty articles – Page 43
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AnalysisRetail Reimagined: Welcome to the beauty store 2.0
In the latest instalment of our Retail Reimagined series, Grace Bowden explores the beauty store 2.0.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Can battered Debenhams be turned around?
In last year’s annual report, Debenhams chief executive Sergio Bucher wrote: “We have built a plan that is good for our customers, good for our colleagues and, therefore, good for our shareholders.”
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NewsHolland & Barrett poaches Sainsbury’s Argos CTO Goley
Holland & Barrett has bolstered its executive team with two newly created roles, which include poaching Sainsbury’s Argos chief technology officer George Goley.
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AnalysisDebenhams results: Bold strategy or desperate measures?
Debenhams has posted its biggest statutory loss on record and revealed plans to close 50 stores. Here are the City’s divided reactions to the results.
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AnalysisData: John Lewis’ top 2018 trends and shopping predictions
From The World Cup to the royal wedding, John Lewis has taken a deep dive into the events that shaped shopping in 2018.
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AnalysisSWOT analysis: How can Boots regain momentum?
Boots was the blot on the copybook of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s fourth quarter results last week after recording declines across its pharmacy and retail divisions.
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AnalysisInside retail's global giants: Zalando
Retail Week looks inside German online fashion giant Zalando, which despite recent trading pressure is vying to become an ‘operating system for the fashion industry’.
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NewsRetail sales suffer ‘summer hangover’ in September
Retail sales dipped in September as constrained consumer spending drove the industry’s poorest performance in five months.
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VideoWatch: Debenhams' store of the future in Watford
Debenhams has opened what it calls its store of the future, which focuses on its new beauty offer. We went to Watford to take a look.
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NewsSainsbury’s to boost beauty with department store style offer
Sainsbury’s will expand its beauty category by offering consumers a department store style offer, complete with beauty aisles staffed with specialist assistants.
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AnalysisDebenhams' beauty hall is innovative but problematic
Debenhams unveiled its Beauty Hall of the Future in Watford earlier this week, showing off a new take on the traditional beauty department.
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GalleryDebenhams puts beauty centre-stage in Watford store
Debenhams this week opens the doors to its store at the Intu Watford extension, representing its latest thinking as it seeks to reignite the department store format’s appeal to contemporary shoppers.
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NewsThe Hut Group embarks on 1m sq ft campus project
The Hut Group is set to develop 1m sq ft of office and studio space, creating the biggest office space outside London.
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AnalysisTech. talking points: Ecosystems and app antagonism
Tech. 2018 has explored some of the biggest retail issues of the moment. Here we dig into some of the highlights of day two.
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VideoWatch: Feelunique's Palix on finding the perfect tech team
FeelUnique chief executive Joel Palix talks about why online beauty is about to blow up and the impossibility of finding the perfect tech team.
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AnalysisData: Top 20 retailers by profit growth
Only a third of the UK’s largest retailers generated earnings growth in their last financial year, according to new Retail Week research.
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NewsAugust retail sales increase driven by groceries
Retail sales edged up in August as inflation-driven increases in grocery sales were largely offset by falling non-food revenues.
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NewsThe Hut snaps up beauty specialist Acheson & Acheson
The Hut Group has bolstered its core beauty business with the acquisition of Acheson & Acheson, a contract manufacturer and product developer.
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IndicatorThe innovators thriving in health and beauty
The health and beauty sector has performed resiliently in the face of increasingly difficult trading conditions over the past few years.
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IndicatorHealth and beauty ranking 2018
Retail Week Indicator’s focus on health and beauty retail reveals and ranks retailers’ digital capabilities within the health and beauty sector through a strategic audit of all areas of a customer’s digital shopping journey.