Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Adore Beauty has agreed to acquire Blue Mountains-based beauty and wellness brand Ikou for $25 million. Ikou complements and strengthens our existing business, delivering revenue growth and margin expansion, as well as supporting private label and physical store initiatives,” said Tamalin Morton, Adore Beauty CEO.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Adore Beautys earnings more than doubled in the fiscal first half, which management says reflects the early phase of the companys growth strategy. Adore Beauty will open its first retail store on February 1 at Westfield Southland in Victoria and its second store at Watergardens in early March.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ulta Beauty has outlined a new set of strategic priorities to drive its growth and announced new long-term financial targets that include an acceleration of new store openings. With a target of 1,800+ total locations, the beauty retailer plans to open 200 net-new stores over the next three years.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2023

Space NK has revealed a newly expanded store, which is the largest in the company’s portfolio, and four times the size of its original location at Westfield London in White City. We look forward to our customers visiting Space NK’s expanded location and discovering a wider range of beauty products and services.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, Chemist Warehouse unveiled its store-within-a-store luxe beauty concept Ultra Beauty in June, indicating a much larger focus on the beauty sector and potentially a more competitive environment for both retailers in the future. . Priceline is very much centred around beauty,” Mortimer told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Makeup artist turned brand founder Hilary Holmes is challenging traditional beauty marketing tactics that leverage and profit from consumer insecurity through her cosmetics company Holme Beauty. Holme Beauty was founded in 2021 in Melbourne, but the idea had been brewing for almost two decades prior.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

Australian hair and beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty will open 10 new storefronts throughout the country in a multi-million-dollar investment. Its newest location opens this month at Sydney’s Macquarie Centre. Oz Hair and Beauty plans to expand to 15 stores by the end of this year, taking its employee count to 165.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2022

Hair and beauty retailer AMR Hair & Beauty has launched a new shop in Belconnen, Canberra, which it claims is the largest beauty store in town. . According to AMR Hair & Beauty, the brand aims to bring quality and affordable hair and beauty products to consumers and trade customers in the ACT as the demand is growing.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2021

In-depth conversations with Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Australian of the Year Grace Tame and new fertility and naturopathy services are all part of a new month-long wellness event from beauty giant, Mecca. Beauty retail in the time of coronavirus. “Our Mecca customers care deeply about wellness.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Marie Kloor and her firm, Hydra Health , are focused on changing that. Our mission is to transform spaces that have traditionally been kind of an afterthought and turn them into beautiful, customer-centric and revenue-generating spaces, ” Kloor said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The system then directs associates to replenish shelves in their respective departments, including grocery, pets, health and beauty, frozen and dairy. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Over the next year, CVS will open a dozen small-format stores in locations throughout the U.S. These stores will stock health-related products such as first aid and over-the-counter cough and pain medications but none of the groceries, cosmetics and greeting cards that have become typical elements of drugstore retail.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 8, 2025

The health and beauty retailer said the high-tech screens will help transform its stores into dynamic advertising platforms, allowing suppliers to target the right customer, with the right advert, at the right time.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

Major US retailers including Best Buy, Walmart and Amazon are increasing their offerings of healthcare and health-related products as inflation-wary Americans shift more of their budgets to services and away from goods. “The margins you can make in some of the wellness and health product categories has become pretty significant.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

Rite Aid has partnered with last-mile logistics platform DoorDash to offer same-day delivery of non-prescription health, convenience and wellness products from more than 2,100 locations across 17 states. ” Customers within range of participating Rite Aid stores can now order products on the DoorDash app or website.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Stores are a massive canvas theyre experiential, theyre engaging and its where the vast majority of transactions are actually happening, said Parbinder Dhariwal, VP and General Manager of CVS Media Exchange (CMX), CVS Healths retail media network, at the 2024 Retail Innovation Conference and Expo.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2025

Adore Group’s wellness brand Ikou has opened its first Melbourne store at Melbourne Central, following three current locations in NSW in Leura, Byron Bay, and Sydney. Naomi and Paul Whitfeld founded Ikou in 2007, and the company was acquired by Adore Beauty Group last year.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 8, 2024

Bodycare, a leading health and beauty retailer with over 130 stores across the UK, has chosen TRILUX lighting solutions as part of its ongoing store improvement programme. Bodycare is well known as a great value retailer for everyday essential health and beauty products through their expanding estate in the UK and on-line.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last month, Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale launched its first two international boutiques in Singapore, under the wing of South Korean beauty giant Amorepacific, which invested in the company in 2020. The complete focus from Richard has always been on optimal skin health.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Thousands of beauty-lovers descended on New York City recently to enjoy the return of Sephoria, a consumer beauty event that Sephora first launched in 2018. Sephora refunded ticket holders and promised to send beauty bags worth over US$500 ($790) to their homes. The rain out didn’t dampen spirits for the rest of the event.

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365 Retail

MARCH 22, 2025

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has announced the launch of the Health & Wellness Village at The Village in Westfield London. This new initiative dedicates over 50,000 sq ft on Level 1 to health and wellness brands and services, reflecting a significant development in the centre’s evolution.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

People familiar with the matter said that Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners are assembling a joint bid for the drugstore chain “predicated upon substantial investment in its digital, beauty and healthcare services offerings.”. However, Brewer did not comment on whether or not the retailer would pursue a sale.

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Last weekend, centre:mk hosted the UK’s largest fashion and beauty indoor event, welcoming over 113,000 visitors across the two-day period. Located at Middleton Hall, centre:mk’s Fashion Weekend featured 80 brands across 40 of the destination’s retailers, enabling visitors to see the latest trends across fashion, health, and beauty.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

A gym membership for your skin In addition to the pop-up with Magnum at Bondi Beach, the membership-based skin clinic recently opened a second location in Sydney’s Neutral Bay. The new location is bigger than the first and feels like walking into a skincare spaceship with its monochromatic colour palette and metallic surfaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Dollar General has launched the popshelf store concept — smaller locations focusing on on-trend seasonal goods, with 95% of items priced at $5 or less. The first two popshelf locations will open in Hendersonville and Clarksville, Tenn. Dollar General aims to open 30 popshelf locations by the end of January 2022. in fall 2020.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Thirteen Lune is an e-commerce platform that sells beauty products from primarily Black-owned brands. Even after having worked in the beauty industry for more than 18 years, Grieco was surprised by the number of new-to-her Black-owned beauty brands she discovered through these listicles. In 2023, Thirteen Lune raised US$12.5

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

After expanding in North America, high-end beauty brand Kypris is now turning its attention to the Asian market, starting with its debut in Japan. Japan’s deep cultural appreciation for beauty, ritual, and craftsmanship closely aligns with Kypris’ ethos,” Chase Polan , founder and CEO of Kypris, told Inside Retail.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 29, 2025

As well as Caledonia Parks line of renewals, Ben Sherman opened its first outlet location in Scotland at Caledonia Park at the end of last year, taking 1,500 sq ft adjacent to fellow Scottish outlet debuts Moss, which recently opened its refurbished store, and kate spade new york.

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Health and beauty transactions at Bullring & Grand Central have jumped 26 percent year-on-year, as Hammerson continues to strengthen its Birmingham city centre destination with best-in-class beauty and wellbeing brands including regional first, PURESEOUL which opened on Friday 11 th Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Following a March 2022 announcement that it planned to expand beyond its roots in electronics, Best Buy is entering new categories including health and wellness, outdoor living and transportation. Yardbird showrooms are also open in Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Phnom Penh unit is sprawling, covering approximately 1000sqm and offering a beautiful range of items across 15 categories. The product categories are similar: plush toys, health and beauty products, stationery, developmental toys, personal accessories, bags, action figures, snacks, beverages, digital accessories, home decor and more.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Just Eat has announced a new partnership with Boots , allowing customers to order a wide range of health and beauty items for on-demand delivery. Plans are in place to expand the partnership to an additional 100 Boots locations by spring 2025.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Health and wellbeing is a large, fast-growing category and API would be a fantastic addition to our food and everyday needs ecosystem. “We According to Wesfarmers, its aim for the buy-up is to enable the conglomerate to enter the “growing health, wellbeing and beauty sector”, according to manging director Rob Scott.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The new store concept will be introduced at locations in Michigan’s Orion Township and Macomb Township. Stores will range in size from 75,000 to 90,000 square feet. Meijer Grocery will align its savings and shopping options with those offered by Meijer supercenters including mPerks, Shop and Scan , Meijer Home Delivery and Pickup.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 18, 2025

Harvey Nichols is set to close its Beauty Bazaar store in Liverpool ONE as part of new CEO Julia Goddards growth strategy for the department store. A spokesperson for the retailer said it had chosen to focus on full category stores and as such the beauty only store that opened in 2012 will close next month.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

After only six months of operations, Aje Collective’s beauty brand, Ikkari, launched its first physical location, with the promise of more to come. The business uses all-natural ingredients across a slew of products, ranging from skincare and ingestibles, to beauty and diffusers. Innovation is a big part of our range.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2022

Australian health and medical start-up Medcart has achieved $10 million in annual sales in less than 12 months. The website allows pharmacy, health and medical providers to display their products along with images, descriptions and prices. There was no mechanism to assist staff in locating manufacturers and placing PPE orders.

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