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Woolies blocks Wesfarmers’ plans for API with $872 million bid

Inside Retail

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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Woolies blocks Wesfarmers’ plans for API with $872 million bid

Inside Retail

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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From Saks to start-up: How this brand founder aims to change women’s health

Inside Retail

Those experiences ultimately her to launch Elix Healing, the first menstrual wellness brand to combine Chinese medicine and clinical research for personalised herbal treatments for women’s hormonal health. I was deeply frustrated by the lack of options to naturally heal our hormonal health.

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Wellness booms and so does the share price of pharmaceutical retailers

Inside Retail

Wellness has become a priority for people in the wake of the pandemic as evidenced by the surge in demand for health and well-being products, which is projected to reach $5.2 Priceline is another Australian pharmacy that has increased its foothold in the beauty and wellness space under the ownership of retail conglomerate Wesfarmers.

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How fast-growing retailer GoodnessMe is leading the health food space

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In 2020, health and wellness business GoodnessMe launched its online marketplace, offering Australians a range of healthy, nutritious food and organic beauty products from the comfort of their own home. During that experience, she discovered there was a limited product range available at supermarkets. You are what you eat.

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API rejects “opportunistic” $687m Wesfarmers bid

Inside Retail

The board said the bid’s timing was “opportunistic”, given the impact Covid-19 has had on its retail division, and that it is well placed to bounce back from any short-term struggles with substantial growth expected in the medium-term due to its place within the health, wellness and beauty sectors. “[We]

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Aspirational marketing will always exist – and personally, I like it that way

Inside Retail

Cult Beauty in the UK also did it. Yes, it’s heartening to see brands stepping up and challenging the beauty industry’s status quo, and it’s a positive step towards promoting inclusivity and diversity in advertising. And how are brands striking a balance between what is perceived as real and what is revered?

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