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Watsons (Chinese: 屈臣氏; Jyutping: Wat 1 san 4 si 6) is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe.It is the flagship health and beauty brand of AS Watson, which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings.
The company reported that UK store sales had fallen by 23.2%, while online sales in the UK were down by 12.1%. The company recorded a worldwide sales drop of 9.4%. [10] In November 2019, the company put Mothercare UK (and Mothercare Business Services) into administration; [11] all the UK shops and the UK website closed soon after. [12]
Using an American business model as inspiration, they revolutionised the UK's DIY market. Texas specialised in higher-volume, lower-margin DIY products. However, in the 1980s the company was adversely affected by the recession and depressed housing market, and was acquired first by Ladbrokes and later by J Sainsbury plc , before merging with ...
Expenditure on private health care in the UK in 1976 was estimated at £134 million (excluding abortions, long-term care, and dentistry). That was about 3% of total expenditure on health care in the UK. At that time about 2% of all acute hospital beds and 6% of all hospital beds in England were in private hospitals and nursing homes.
An earlier Body Shop, unaffiliated with Anita Roddick or the Body Shop International Limited, was opened in Berkeley, California, in 1970, by Peggy Short and Jane Saunders. [13] Roddick opened her own health and beauty store, named the Body Shop, in her hometown of Brighton, UK, in 1976. Her motivation was to "make a living for herself and her ...
(Kilgour left the company in early 2000, when with 101 homes it was the UK’s 5th largest care home operator. He made his final financial exit from the company in 2004.) There followed a rapid expansion programme for the business, which transformed it within seven years into the largest care home operator in the UK (it was subsequently overtaken).