New look for Nourish
The independently-run Nourish group of health and beauty stores has unveiled a new look for its Wicklow Street store located just off Grafton Street,...
It’s time for some wholefood action!
Networking is underway amongst the UK’s independent wholefood shops in a bid to boost their role as hubs in the movement for a better food system.
The new Wholefood...
How becoming more than a shop could boost your bottom line
“Becoming more than a shop could be the independent health store retailer’s biggest opportunity,” says the political affairs commentator, Chris Whitehouse. By making a...
Indiscriminate, savvy, retailer-neutral – introducing the ‘free-range shopper’
A new breed of ‘free-range shopper’ is emerging as Britain’s retail landscape undergoes radical change says leading rewards app Shopitize.
Indiscriminate, savvy and retailer-neutral, the...
Quest partners with top business trainer for new retailer initiative
Leading vitamins manufacturer Quest has announced a new development initiative aimed specifically at independent retailers.
The company is joining forces with the Business Development Foundation...
Bristol retailer sets out on ‘Better Food Journeys’
Bristol retailer The Better Food Company is staging a series of ‘Better Food Journeys’ as part of the Bristol Food Connections Festival, a major...
Win £250 of NutriCentre book vouchers!
At Natural Products we’ve teamed up with our friends at Viridian Nutrition and the Health Food Institute to offer one lucky independent retailer £250 worth of NutriCentre book...
New London store planned for As Nature Intended
Natural and organic retailer As Nature Intended is due to open a new store on the border of Spitalfields and Shoreditch in East London...
NAHS teams with top business coach at Olympia show
The National Association of Health Stores (NAHS) is teaming up with acclaimed business coach John Silvestro in an exciting retailer initiative at this year’s...
All’s fair…
Retailers got busy for Fairtrade Fortnight (24 February-9 March), organising window displays, tastings and a host of events to flag up this year’s Make...
Nutricentre experts to give ‘health tours’ to Tesco shoppers
Tesco is offering shoppers free ‘health tours’ in a new initiative designed to help its shoppers make “the right healthy food choices”.
Trained nutritionists from...
Kinetica secures GNC listing
Ten products from the Kinetica range are now available in 57 GNC stores nationwide after the sports nutrition specialist secured an exclusive deal with...
Bring on the bean counters (no, really)!
The Eighth Day co-op has launched a Wall of Beans competition in which customers can guess how many of a particular bean the store...
Holland & Barrett continues aggressive expansion plan
Holland & Barrett (H&B) plans to open at least 60 stores this year, doubling its usual number of openings as well increasing store sizes...
MyDetoxDiet heads to Greenwich
Online detox diet and juice company MyDetoxDiet has now opened a ‘personal one-stop healthy lifestyle’ store in Greenwich, London
The shop aims to offer the...
Organic restaurant owner found guilty of animal cruelty
The owner of organic restaurant Down to Earth in Kensington, London, has been found guilty on five charges of animal cruelty.
Khalid Undre neglected to...
Every Lidl helps? – discounter rolls out ‘healthy checkout’ plan
Following a ten-week trial last year, Lidl is rolling out its Healthy Checkout initiative to all of its 600 stores.
The initiative, which comes hot...
The Health Store steps up to become NAHS Patron
The Health Store (THS) is putting its full support behind the National Association of Health Stores by becoming its Patron for the first time.
Having...
Showing how it should be
Natural Products editor Jim Manson has been to see how new Brighton-based ethical supermarket hiSbe is showing how food retailing should be
‘Happiness’ and ‘supermarkets’....
PHB expands into Europe, Southeast Asia
British beauty brand PHB Ethical Beauty has recently expanded by opening franchise stores in The Netherlands and Brunei, making founder and CEO Rose Brown...