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The latest news from the leading retailers in the natural and organic products industry.

Food for Thought gets thumbs up from customers with Kingston business...

Food for Thought has won the Independent Retailer of the Year award in the 2016 Kingston Business Excellence Awards, beating eight other stores.

Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market

Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, is buying Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at approximately $13.7bn. 

As Nature Intended’s revamped Balham store reopens

After 18 months of building refurbishment, As Nature Intended has reopened its Balham store – the first branch to open without any plastic bags.

Onwards and upwards for The Natural Way

Braintree health food store The Natural Way is moving to new premises on the town’s High Street later this month. Speaking about the move, Richard...

Phil Haughton offers up some Food for Thought

The founder of organic retailer Better Food, Phil Haughton, has released Food For Thought – a celebration of life, good food and nature.

Beanies Wholefoods Co-Op hits the big 30

This year workers co-operative Beanies Wholefoods in Sheffield marks 30 years of trading and the celebrations are set to continue throughout the year.

Boost sales with free event-led promotion packs

Leading health food wholesaler Tree of Life is helping retailers boost sales at the checkout with a series of eye-catching promotional packs. Designed to support...

Big win for Southport health store

The Health Store’s annual open day took place this year on 1 July and the lucky winner of its raffle was Anne Menzies of Birkdale Health Store in Southport.

Britain wakes up to an organic breakfast

Today Wake Up To Organic saw over 60 stores across the country enthusiastically rallying behind the event to offer customers a free organic breakfast. Now...

Health food retailers honoured at HFI lunch and lecture

Health food retailers were honoured at the 2017 Health Food Institute Luncheon & Lecture, which took place at the Royal Overseas League in London on 9 March.

H&B helps family enjoy a very special day out at the...

A local family who attend Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People in Loughborough were able to enjoy a fun-packed day with the animals...

Summer opening for latest Planet Organic store

London-based health and wellbeing retailer Planet Organic is set to open a new store in the north-west of the city later this summer. The development...

Healthy Christmas sales help H&B deliver 4.8% growth

Healthy Christmas sales helped Holland & Barrett (H&B) deliver 4.8% year on year growth in the quarter ending 31 December 2019.

Hastings’ co-op expands refills into second store

Trinity Wholefoods, which marked its 35th birthday this year, has opened a refill store to encourage customers to ‘reduce, reuse, recycle, refill, rethink'.

Ethical retailer joins the vegan revolution

Salisbury retailer Goodfayre has gone a step further in its ethical mission this month, becoming the first entirely vegan food shop in the South West.

Five minutes with The Good Kind Grocery

Matt Chittock meets The Good Kind Grocery and finds out why opening a vegan store during a health crisis has been a positive experience.

Unicorn co-operative makes final of BBC Food & Farming Awards

The Unicorn workers’ co-op in Manchester is among the three finalists in the Best Food Retailer category of the BBC’s national Food & Farming Awards.

The Natural Store celebrates quarter century

Paul Johnson, proprietor of The Natural Store ­– which also has branches in Falmouth and St Austell – has celebrated his 25th anniversary in the Helston shop.

Southport gets bigger and better Nature’s Remedies

Nature’s Remedies in Southport has moved to bigger premises to create a new, spacious environment. Owner Carol Henshaw had to move when the lease was...

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Have you booked your place yet for this autumn’s must-attend retailer event – Natural Products Live? 100% retailer focused, Natural products Live is a one-day...