The UK’s Boots chain has a new managing director with owner Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) on Thursday saying Anthony Hemmerdinger takes over as MD of Boots UK and Ireland, effective 4 November.

Battersea Power Station has been an undeniable success since its opening almost two years ago and on Thursday we were told that the mall and the general neighbourhood have just enjoyed their “strongest summer yet”.

​John Lewis released its half-year results Thursday and said its “transformation is on track” with a “marked improvement” in H1 and the retailer set to "deliver significantly higher profits for the full year”.

​Market-leading global beauty brand L’Oréal Paris has named British supermodel-turned-actress-turned-activist Cara Delevingne as its latest ambassador.

Goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, is undergoing a restructuring, laying off 18% of its 216 employees. 

LVMH-backed L Catterton announced on Monday it has acquired a majority stake in Stenders, a premium bath and body care company. 

L’Occitane en Provence has unveiled a redesigned boutique on Manhattan's Upper West Side, introducing an elevated store design and concept. 

​It’s official, the remaining 100 or so Body Shop stores in the UK will stay open after Mike Jatania’s Aurea consortium completed a deal to buy the business out of administration at the weekend.

​The British Fashion Council’s City Wide Celebration (CWC) will feature over a thousand events this month as it marks the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

Perricone MD announced on Thursday actress and entrepreneur Jennie Garth as its new brand ambassador. 

Bath & Body Works cut its annual sales forecast on Wednesday, a sign of weaker demand for its pricey products such as fragrances and scented candles in the face of still-high inflation.

​The big retail story at M&S of late has been about it shutting stores that carry clothing and opening food-only spaces. But now, there's a potential change of strategy. It's to test a shop selling fashion and not food.

​Beauty and wellness marketplace platform Fresha has a new debt facility from JP Morgan to accelerate its “expansion into new markets and drive the growth of its machine learning capabilities and AI-powered robotics”.

German perfume and cosmetics retailer Douglas is betting on the European premium beauty market to keep driving growth, it said on 14 August after reporting higher earnings for its fiscal third quarter.

E.l.f. Beauty forecast annual sales and profit below estimates on 8 August and said it would raise prices of its products if presidential candidate Donald Trump comes to power and hikes tariffs on imports from China.

When the economy takes a turn for the worse, consumers choose affordable treats such as cosmetics. That’s been the wisdom since 2001, when Leonard Lauder, then chairman of Estee Lauder Cos, coined the 'Lipstick Index'.