A group of investors in Unilever said on Thursday they had filed a fresh resolution urging the company to fix a "crucial blind spot" in its strategy and set ambitious targets to sell healthier foods.

Unilever PLC on Wednesday effectively abandoned its plans to buy GlaxoSmithKline's consumer healthcare business, saying on Wednesday that it would not raise a 50 billion pound offer that GSK previously rejected.

​THG’s Q4 trading update on Tuesday showed that the group’s shares may have been under heavy pressure in recent months but its sales continue to soar.

The bid for GSK's assets, including Sensodyne toothpaste and Advil painkillers, comes as Unilever is dealing with steep inflation and sluggish growth in emerging markets, where it derives 60% of its revenues.

​Speculation is intensifying over who might buy Boots from its current owner Walgreen Boots Alliance, and the latest names in the frame are the Issa brothers, the retail tycoons who recently took control of Asda.

Brand management and acquisition firm WHP Global has signed a licensing agreement with A. P. Deauville to launch Anne Klein Bath & Body. 

Two of the world’s biggest private equity names are teaming up to bid for giant UK health & beauty retailer Boots. Bain Capital and CVC Capital have thrown their hats into the ring.

The Rocher group has recently appointed Jean-David Schwartz as managing director of its leading brand, Yves Rocher.

U.S. department store Saks has launched its new online wellness shop, retailing products for both men and women across four main categories: fitness, health and nutrition, sexual wellness, and rest and relaxation.

​Walgreens Boots Alliance is upbeat as its first quarter beat expectations and it upgraded its full-year earnings guidance aided both by its US ops and a recovery in its UK unit.

​Charlotte Tilbury saw rising sales during the height of the pandemic in 2020 with online accounting for two-thirds of transactions and the company able to repay £3.2 million of furlough cash, accounts just filed show.

Specialist CBD products and beauty retailer Love Hemp Group has had a busy year restructuring and bedding in a new management team. So you may think that would have hit performance for the year ended 30 June.

Collagen, lip liner, perfume and miniatures are four of the beauty products that have been “must-haves” over the past 12 months and will be key in 2022, John Lewis said in its latest Beauty Bets report on Wednesday.

​The owner of giant UK beauty and health chain Boots is reportedly thinking of selling the business, five years after it took full control of the firm.

The Bolingbrook, Illinois-based cosmetics retailer revealed on Thursday that its net sales for the third quarter totaled $2.0 billion, up 28.6% from $1.6 billion in the same period in the previous year.

The corporate venture investment arm of Brazil’s Natura &Co has taken a $2 million stake in the science-backed, Los Angeles-based skincare brand founded by Alli Reed, aka “The Acid Queen.”