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Why health, fitness and beauty brands are getting real (and funny)

Inside Retail

Health, fitness and beauty. A simple image search for health and fitness reveals screeds of bronzed, impossibly-toned bodies, paired with motivational slogans encouraging people to try harder, reach further, strive, dominate, or ‘just do it’. The world has opened back up, but the impact of this shift continues.

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Chemist Warehouse is eying the beauty sector. Should Priceline be worried?

Inside Retail

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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Wesfarmers bid to pick up Priceline owner API in health play succeeds

Inside Retail

API had been locked in a tug of war between Wesfarmers and fellow pharmaceuticals firm Sigma, which made a bid at keeping Wesfarmers out of the health space , but ultimately stepped out of the contest over the weekend after the retail business upped its ownership of API to 19 per cent and said it would vote against Sigma’s deal.

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Target’s wellness wave: Blume hit shelves amidst global health market surge

Inside Retail

It’s not a secret at this point that increased health-related concerns brought on by the pandemic and recent lifestyle trends have led to a heightened focus on the wellness market in the retail industry, especially within the food and beverage category. billion by 2030 at a compound annual growth rate of 10.5

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The Iconic highlights diversity in new beauty campaign

Inside Retail

Fashion and lifestyle platform The Iconic has launched its first beauty campaign “I am Iconic” to celebrate diversity in the beauty category. . The brand says it wants to celebrate beauty in all its forms and the new campaign introduces its definition of beauty. .

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How the beauty and sexual wellness industries became so intertwined

Inside Retail

When you walk into a beauty store, you expect to find a wide array of makeup powders, hair curlers, and setting sprays. In recent years, these and other sexual wellness products have been popping up on the physical and virtual shelves of many mainstream beauty retailers, such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty.

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Wellness clinic and spa Endota buys New Zealand’s Forme Spa

Inside Retail

Forme Spa, New Zealand’s largest day spa group, has been bought by Endota, Australia’s largest spa and wellbeing network. Melanie Gleeson, founder and CEO of Endota, says the company will combine its resources with Forme Spa “to build new communities of people committed to experiencing wellbeing by Endota”.

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