Online start-up gives eco shoppers a boost
Launched in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, London-based online retailer Boostology is an independent start-up aiming to offer a new way to shop...
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...
As one door closes…
In what seems to be an all too common occurrence in the sector, rent increases have once again forced the closure of a small...
Whole Foods pulls unpeeled mandarins after photo goes viral
Whole Foods has removed a range of pre-peeled, plastic-packed mandarins after a photo of the product taken in a Californian store went viral, reports...
Store owners gather for “inspiring and cutting edge” Natural Health Summit
Specialist health food store owners gathered in London this week for a special one-day conference entitled Transformation: Nutrition as a Catalyst for Positive Change held.
Natural Health celebrates 20 years in Hertford
This year sees Julie Goodwin celebrate the 20th anniversary of her first Natural Health store in Hertford which opened in 1997.
Forest Whole Foods named Best New Business
Online organic retailer Forest Whole Foods has been awarded Best New Business in the New Forest Business Partnership’s Brilliance in Business Awards.
To Matcha and Beyond!
Matcha and Beyond is a new matcha and coffee bar due to open on the King’s Road, London, in late October.
Natural Products Retailing in 2018-2019
At the start of 2019 Natural Products News conducted its sixth annual ‘Health Check’ survey of independent health food retailers in the UK. The...
Bringing kindly shopping to Brighton
Tagged as a ‘sustainable supermarket for the thoughtful people of Brighton’, Kindly of Brighton is one of the newest retailers to open in the city.
New plant-based store for meat-lovers opens in London
A new vegan store, The Good Kind Grocery, has opened in Enfield, London, to show just how easy it can be to move to a more plant-based diet.
Health matters announces new organic beauty outlet
Marion Allen, the woman behind the health matters brand, is opening a new store dedicated entirely to organic beauty.
The 500 square foot Creme de...
MyDetoxDiet heads to Greenwich
Online detox diet and juice company MyDetoxDiet has now opened a ‘personal one-stop healthy lifestyle’ store in Greenwich, London
The shop aims to offer the...
Holland & Barrett takes on the supermarkets with larger format ‘More’...
Holland & Barrett opens the first of its large format Holland & Barrett More stores today.
The retailer says it will roll out 50 of...
Holland & Barrett signs deal for 1,000 franchise stores in India
Holland & Barrett’s overseas expansion gathers further pace with news that the health food retailer has signed a deal with India’s Apollo Hospitals group...
Better Food revamps online presence
Bristol-based Better Food has overhauled its website to bring it in line with the store’s branding and offer customers a user-friendly information hub.
Better Food celebrates a quarter of a century
Bristol-based organic and health food retailer Better Food is celebrating its 25th birthday this year, with a series of in-store tastings.
Holland & Barrett stops selling krill oil
Holland & Barrett announced today that it is to remove all krill oil products from sale in its UK and Irish stores.
Naturalife Wholefoods branches out with The Bay Tree
Southwest-based health food store Naturalife Wholefoods has expanded its portfolio by adding The Bay Tree’s two stores in Christchurch and Ferndown, Dorset.
M&S claims ‘first’ with food-to-go reusable container scheme
Food and clothing retailer Marks & Spencer says it is the first major grocery retailer to introduce a reusable container incentive for fresh food-to-go.