Wellness

​January is a major month for launching activewear collections and edits. And H&M's new Good Move edit reflects this while also incorporating the retail giant’s beauty and interiors offer too.

​Space NK's accounts for the year to the end of March showed that the company is thriving as both sales and profits jumped, with all parts of the business doing well.

​The UK fashion sector has to a certain extent begun bouncing ack after a challenging 2023 and this should continue in 2025, according to new figures from data specialist CACI.

US cosmetics group Estée Lauder, which will have a new CEO in January, has appointed former LVMH executive Olivier Dubos as managing director of Global Travel Retail.

The Body Shop appears to be bouncing back from its spectacular implosion earlier this year with news of profitability in the UK business, an acquisition of the Canadian business and expansion plans in the Middle East.

Next stop Chester for H Beauty. The successful addition to the Harrods luxury retail brand has chosen the north-western city close to the England-Wales border for its sixth UK beauty-specific store.

​The Boss of Selfridges’ Group’s co-owner has admitted the consortium that acquired it for £4 billion in 2021 may well have overpaid. But he also thinks the luxury department store group was a good investment.

The funding is expected to fuel the brand’s next phase of growth, with a focus on global expansion, product innovation, and digital platform enhancements.

John Lewis’s latest trend report shows that soggy weather, retro 80s trends, preppy and Brat Girl fashion, and travel returning to pre-covid levels “were among the biggest influences on our shopping habits” this year.

Liverpool One already has had a successful 2024, but that’s not enough for operator Grosvenor as the shopping/entertainment hub continues to be a retail magnet.

​The UK’s Boots chain could soon be under new ownership, but not as current parent Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) had originally planned.

Despite its conjuring of a cozy, soft brown, not everyone embraced the hue.

Ulta Beauty announced on Thursday a third-quarter revenue jump, thanks to the opening of new stores. 

​Two British beauty groups had big news Thursday with Warpaint London and Brand Architekts announcing a “recommended cash offer to be made by Warpaint for the… share capital of Brand Architekts”.

As part of the expansion, Tatcha’s skincare offerings will be available in over 1,400 Ulta Beauty stores nationwide and online, offering consumers an introduction to Japanese beauty rituals.

​Primark has just opened a new store in its UK domestic market with a debut in Bolton that’s also only the second location to feature its new concept.