All Health & beauty articles – Page 48
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AnalysisFrom e-bikes to pound shops: Meet the businesses filling gaps on the high street
While the pandemic continues to force many retailers to the wall, there are some old and new businesses still snapping up space. Retail Week meets those with ambitious store opening plans.
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Opinion‘Online shops mimicking physical stores are new danger for bricks and mortar’
‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’. Whatever your view on the outcome of the strategy that saw most of the population confined to barracks, the result for physical retailers has been calamitous.
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Future LeadersBe Inspired: Retailers raising the bar in mental health support
The UK is facing a mental health crisis. From Superdrug to Pets at Home, meet the retailers making it their responsibility to support and protect their employees’ mental health.
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GalleryStore gallery: WHSmith’s new ‘blended essentials’ Heathrow store
WHSmith’s latest travel retail concept, launched in Heathrow airport’s Terminal 2, features a mix of health and beauty, gifts, books and snacks to create a travel one-stop-shop.
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NewsNext to open beauty stores in former Intu Debenhams branches
Fashion giant Next has signed deals with retail property group Intu to open new-concept beauty halls.
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NewsEstée Lauder to axe 2,000 jobs as coronavirus hammers profits
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is cutting 2,000 jobs across the globe amid plans to close stores and department store beauty counters in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
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NewsMothercare finalises its franchise deal with Boots
Struggling retailer Mothercare has announced a franchise deal with Boots that will see its current range of products extended in the health and beauty retailer’s stores.
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DataData: The retail sectors capturing footfall since stores reopened
Footfall is slowly returning to retail destinations following the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, but which sectors are capitalising on that traffic and enticing customers into their stores? Springboard data shared exclusively with Retail Week reveals the sectors that are emerging as the winners and losers.
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GalleryIn pictures: Selfridges’ sustainability push featuring innovative brands
On Monday, Selfridges launched its Project Earth campaign, which aims to change the way its customers shop by 2025.
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Retail VoiceHow masks will instil consumer confidence in retail once more
Popping a mask into your pocket when you leave the house has quickly become the norm and now face coverings are helping retail get back on its feet, says Richard Mears, founder and CEO of Breathe Happy
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GalleryStore gallery: Holland & Barrett unveils new ‘accessible wellness’ format
Holland & Barrett has launched a new concept store in Chelmsford, Essex, that offers a range of products and services to educate shoppers on their wellness needs.
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AnalysisHow Nike, Unilever and Gymshark are building DTC empires – and the retail fightback
Already a huge growth area in retail, direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales were sent into overdrive over the past few months when stores were forced to close around the world.
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NewsThe Hut Group appoints seven banks to aid potential IPO
The Hut Group has named seven banks – including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs – to oversee a potential £4.5bn flotation.
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AnalysisRetail’s new lipstick effect: what products will fly off the shelves post-Covid?
During past recessions, consumers have snapped up small luxuries, such as lipstick, to make themselves feel better. But with face masks making a lipstick uptick unlikely, which treats will shoppers indulge in now?
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NewsWalgreens Boots Alliance boss Stefano Pessina steps down
Walgreens Boots Alliance chief executive Stefano Pessina is stepping down, six years after leading the group’s mega-merger.
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AnalysisLessons in loyalty: how retail’s seven best schemes deliver results
As Marks & Spencer relaunches Sparks this week, Retail Week reviews some of the top loyalty schemes around the world and pulls out lessons on what works in loyalty today
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NewsOnline sales hit record high as lockdown eases
Multichannel retailers led the way as online sales soared in the week beginning June 15, despite stores reopening their doors to the public.
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NewsKim Kardashian sells $200m stake in cosmetics brand
French beauty titan Coty has snapped up a 20% stake in Kim Kardashian West’s KKW cosmetics range, less than a year after acquiring a majority stake in her sister Kylie Jenner’s beauty brand.
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AnalysisJohn Lewis, Superdry, Lush and Waterstones on trading in retail’s new normal
After three months of shuttered doors due to the coronavirus, English non-essential retail reopened to the public on Monday. Retail Week analyses the lessons to be learnt from the first days of trading.
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NewsHolland & Barrett and Booths launch on Deliveroo
Following in the footsteps of the likes of Morrisons and Marks & Spencer, Holland & Barrett and Booths have both joined forces with Deliveroo to bolster their customer reach during lockdown.