A RETAILER you’d never think of with more than 720 stores in the UK is set to launch concession stores in Next.
The brand is the UK’s leading health and wellness retailer and will appear in shops this summer.
Holland & Barrett will open the first of three concession stores on Wednesday 10 July in Next, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich.
Additional H&B concessions in Next will open later this year in Silverlink Shopping Park and North Shields.
H&B in Next will offer its customers a specially curated range of its top 1,000 products from its latest ranges of health and wellness solutions.
This will include leading brands, innovative services, sports nutrition, and trending beauty.
H&B already has around 50 concession stores and has “has an ambitious 3-year transformation strategy” in place to become their customer’s first choice for wellness products.
H&B has invested £70 million in the transformation of its stores, technology and new product development.
This includes the opening and renovation of over 200 stores in the UK.
Nick Gerrard, Property and Format Director at Holland & Barrett says: “We’re investing in revitalising our store experience, taking a flexible approach to space planning and piloting new locations and store footprints.
“We’re very excited to partner with Next with our brand-new concession formats which will compliment Next’s retail offering, giving its customers easy and convenient access to the latest and trending health and wellness essentials.”
To mark the new opening H&B will be running a sampling event 10th, 12th and 13th July, as well as ‘spin to win’ and offering customers exclusive vouchers to get 20 per cent off their first shop.
Holland & Barrett is the UK’s leading health and wellness retailer and one of the largest in Europe
It was founded in 1870 and prides itself on adding “quality years to people’s lives by making health and wellness a way of life for everyone.”
It comes as an iconic 90s retailer has revealed six further locations where it wants to open new stores with one opening in hours.
Toys R Us has plans to open 30 new shops across the UK this summer after it successfully opened almost a dozen in 2023.
And a major coffee shop chain has revealed its plans to open branches in 11 Sainsbury’s.
The popular chain will open new sites within the supermarkets throughout 2024.
Costa Coffee will open the stores in the coming weeks and months creating over 100 jobs.
The first location is in Sainsbury’s Farlington Superstore in Portsmouth.
The coffee chain opened its doors to shoppers last week on Thursday, February 15.
Nick Ridley, property director at Costa Coffee, said: “We are excited to join forces with Sainsbury’s, bringing our much-loved Costa Coffee experiences to shoppers nationwide.
“We’re proud that we will soon be able to make a difference to customers looking to catch up with friends and family over lunch or enjoy a beloved Costa coffee after their weekly shop.”