All Health & beauty articles – Page 137
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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.
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John Lewis sales ‘defiant’
John Lewis has reported a “defiant” week of trading, but remains cautious as it braces itself to come up against tough comparatives from last year.
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Analysis
Finding light in dark times
Retail is getting tougher in the developed world and this year’s World Retail Congress discussed the challenges facing retailers. Tim Danaher and Katie Kilgallen report from Barcelona
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Perfume Shop to test new-look store in autumn
AS Watson’s niche retailer The Perfume Shop plans to open a new-format store in the autumn.
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Liberty commercial chief exits amid sale confusion
Liberty commercial director James Crespo has left the luxury retailer. His departure comes as confusion mounts over a potential sale of the business.
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Boots’ Pessina vows to accelerate growth
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina has pledged to ramp up earnings by at least 10 per cent a year while he runs the business.
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Body Shop sales rocket
Body Shop – the ethical cosmetics retailer owned by L’Or al – sales increased 7.4 per cent in the first quarter. Sales were up 1.9 per cent on a like-for-like basis.
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The Perfume Shop hires chief operating officer
Fragrance retailer The Perfume Shop has promoted Jo Walker to chief operating officer.
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Retail sales fall for first time in two years
Retailers' like-for-like sales fell for the first time in two years in March, with clothing and footwear sales their worst for eight years.
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Analysis
Health professional
Eight months ago, Boots UK stores director Simon Roberts took on the job of integrating 2,300 Boots and Alliance stores. Jennifer Creevy finds out how he’s getting on