Boots Prepares For Makeover As Challenges Mount
Boots is possibly the most ubiquitous retailer in the UK; its store estate of more than 2,500 rivals the country’s biggest supermarket groups, Tesco...
Supermarkets Offering Cheaper Toiletries Than Boots And Superdrug
Boots’ current trading woes have been highlighted in a new study by consumer watchdog Which? that confirms supermarkets offer much better value when it...
Superdrug Continues To Expand Store Estate
Superdrug has revealed that it has been expanding its store estate further with the opening of 13 new outlets over the summer.
Since June, the...
Owner Of LloydsPharmacy Blames Profit Fall On Weak UK Market
McKesson, the owner of LloydsPharmacy and AAH, has reported a major drop in profits in its European division, with UK market cited as the...
Boots Starts Trialling Deposit Return Scheme
Boots has become the latest retailer to trial a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drink containers in its stores.
Reverse vending machines have been introduced...
GSK Completes Consumer Healthcare JV With Pfizer
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today that it has completed its transaction with Pfizer to combine their consumer healthcare businesses into a new global joint venture...
Strong Year For Savers Health & Beauty Chain
Savers, the British discount health & beauty chain owned by A.S. Watson, has revealed strong trading figures for its last financial year, bolstered by...
Holland & Barrett Tapping Into Vegan Trend With New Food-To-Go Range
Holland & Barrett has started trialling a new range of vegan and vegetarian food-to-go products in six of its stores in London.
The health and...
Higher Costs Hit Profits At Discount Health & Beauty Chain
Bodycare, the discount health & beauty chain that operates mostly in the Midlands and the north of England, saw its profits slip last year...
LloydsPharmacy To Bolster Operations In Ireland
McKesson-owned LloydsPharmacy is set to acquire Ireland-based Median Healthcare Services and three former Health Express chemists which went into examinership earlier this year.
According to...
