All Health & beauty articles – Page 136

  • News

    Former Body Shop employee fined for insider dealing

    2008-07-01T14:58:36Z

    A former Body Shop employee has been fined 85,000 for insider dealing in the retailer’s shares.

  • News

    Superdrug launches rival to Boots' anti-ageing range

    2008-06-20T14:07:02Z

    Superdrug has launched a rival to Boots’ popular anti-aging cream Perfect & Protect Beauty Serum.

  • News

    Amplifon starts rapid rebranding of UK portfolio

    2008-06-19T10:20:43Z

    Amplifon, the Italian retailer and distributor of hearing aids and related services, is to start rebranding its 147 UK stores this week.

  • News

    May online sales hit £4.5 billion

    2008-06-19T08:28:02Z

    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.

  • News

    Pessina vows to stay the distance

    2008-06-13T12:31:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Boots’ alliance has passed test

    2008-06-13T10:06:00Z

    Cast your mind back a year, to the days when barely a week passed without Retail Week revealing the next big private equity deal.

  • News

    Boots profits soar

    2008-06-10T07:17:00Z

    Alliance Boots has unveiled a strong performance in its first year as a private company.

  • News

    Superdrug hires new finance director

    2008-06-09T10:21:27Z

    Superdrug owner AS Watson has appointed Gill Smith as finance director for its UK health and beauty group.

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    Alliance Boots to move HQ to Switzerland

    2008-06-09T08:55:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Superdrug signs pop icon for skin campaign

    2008-05-30T13:38:00Z

    Health and beauty retailer Superdrug has scored a coup by signing pop star Leona Lewis to front its skin safety campaign Shunburn.

  • News

    Neal’s Yard gears up for expansion

    2008-05-30T11:40:00Z

    Natural health and well-being retailer Neal’s Yard Remedies is to ramp up its expansion programme to give it 50 stores by 2010.

  • Analysis

    Sight for sore eyes

    2008-05-30T11:30:15Z

    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

  • News

    Amazon UK chases cosmetics share

    2008-05-30T10:12:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Alliance Boots to reinvest profits

    2008-05-27T08:52:41Z

    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.

  • News

    D&A links its stores for SAP system roll-out

    2008-05-23T13:46:00Z

    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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    Analysis

    The weirdest jobs in retail

    2008-05-23T12:16:00Z

    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

  • News

    ONS retail sales growth slows

    2008-05-23T10:07:32Z

    Sales volume growth has slowed over the past three months as the household sector reported the largest fall in sales volumes for three years.

  • News

    Health and beauty retailers poised for record year

    2008-05-23T09:28:04Z

    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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    Analysis

    Irish charm

    2008-05-16T13:38:00Z

    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

  • News

    Alliance Boots to unleash potential of power brands

    2008-05-16T09:41:36Z

    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.