Retail News

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

Hangover Health Foods?

Hanover Health in Edinburgh has stepped in to rescue Edinburgh festival goers from one of the downsides of a good night out at the...

Who you gonna call?

It’s a question Whitstable Nutrition store manager Michelle Newbold might well have asked when a colleague replayed some spooky CCTV footage. Footage recorded in the...

“I had a burning desire to start a health food store...

When Janet Barnett told friends she was starting a health food store in a gritty small town on the northern edge of Liverpool they...

German vegan chain has ambitious expansion plans

German vegan food chain Veganz has opened a fourth store in the country and plans to open another eight branches in Europe – including...

Opportunity of a lunchtime: Former Pret MD will reveal how to...

Retail consultant Andrew Walker – former managing director of Pret A Manger – will share his observations and expertise on the highly competitive lunchtime...

Whole Foods switches focus to smaller stores

Whole Foods Market is switching its focus in the UK to smaller stores, reports The Grocer. Whole Foods founder and co-CEO John Mackey told the...

Organising Google ‘virtual store tour’ was a snap – Staffs retailer

Staffordshire-based retailer Marie Longman has been telling Natural Products about how easy it was to get a virtual store tour added to her Google+...

55% of store owners earn less than minimum wage – survey

More than half of independent retailers are earning less than the minimum wage. That’s the shock finding contained in the latest Voice of Local Shops...

Planet Organic and Honestly Healthy hook up for summer

Planet Organic has teamed up with alkaline food company Honestly Healthy to offer exciting new additions to its menu in June and July. Honestly Healthy –...

Rep it up! – it’s time to name your favourite sales...

Natural Products magazine is launching a Natural Products Sales Rep of the Year award. This is to recognise the fantastic contribution to our industry...

How will you be celebrating Independents’ Day?

Now in its third year, Independents’ Day 2013 will take place on 4 July. The event is the highlight of an on-going campaign organised by...

Health stores and pharmacies in front line of high street closures

Health stores, pharmacies and specialist beauty retailers will be in the front line of retail closures in the coming five years says a new...

Retailer’s dramatic store display flags up supplements threatened by low MPLs

Cornwall-based retailer Paul Johnson came up with a dramatic way of highlighting to his local MP all the supplements that could be lost if...

NBTY Europe buys Belgian chain Essenza

NBTY Europe Limited has bought the Belgian health and wellness chain Essenza. The deal sees the 13-store strong Essenza chain join NBTY Europe’s 934 stores ...

Holland & Barrett powers up on green energy

Holland & Barrett owner NBTY Europe is switching to 100 per cent renewable biomass energy throughout its 700 UK store estate. As part of the...

Apples & Bees aims to please

With nearly nine years’ experience in health food retailing, Mihhail Jesmenov decided it was time to take the plunge and open his own store. “I...

Natural Health is top of the shops

Natural Health’s Welwyn store has won the prestigious WelHat Independent Shop of the Year Award for 2013. The award was created to recognise the important...

HayMax shows there’s an easier way to trap the pollen

HayMax, the organic pollen barrier balm for hayfever sufferers, has launched a new marketing campaign entitled ‘An Easier Way to Trap the Pollen’. Using...

Join the night riders on World Ocean Day fund raiser!

Sustainable fish brand fish4ever is sponsoring a special night cycle to raise money for Environmental Justice Foundation’s Save Our Sea campaign. The night riders will...

Waitrose bans neonicotinoids from supply chain

 Waitrose is telling its fruit, vegetable and flower suppliers to stop using three neonicotinoid pesticides that have been linked to the destruction of bee...