Superdrug
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| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1964 |
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| Headquarters | Croydon, Surrey |
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Number of locations
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787+ (recently announced intentions to open 100 stores over the next 3 years taking the total to over 887) |
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Key people
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| Products | B. -Skin Care & Make Up Solait -Suncare & Bronzing Arora -Indulgent Bathing |
| Services | Prescriptions, Health Checks, Threading, Lazer Hair Removal & Botox |
| Revenue |
 £1.11 billion, up 5.4% on 2014. (2015) |
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Pre-tax profit of £62.2m, up 62.4% on 2014. (2015) |
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| Owner | CK Hutchison Holdings |
| Parent | A.S. Watson Group |
| Website | www |
Superdrug Stores PLC (trading as Superdrug) is a health and beauty retailer in the United Kingdom, and the second-largest in the country behind Boots. The company has been a subsidiary of A.S. Watson Group since 2002, itself part of the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings. It trades from nearly 900 stores across the UK and Ireland with the recent intention another 100 over the next 3 years. Superdrug employs over 14,000 people ranging from minimum wage jobs to some of the highest paid within the industry. Superdrug is currently the UK's fastest growing health and beauty retailer more than doubling its profit in 2015.
Besides health and beauty products, the company also have pharmacies with consultation rooms in over 220 stores, and a further 19 contain nurse clinics. It maintains links with its sister companies also owned by A.S. Watson Group, Savers and The Perfume Shop.
In 1964, Superdrug was incorporated under the name of ′Leading Supermarkets Limited′ by the Goldstein brothers in London, both of whom had experience working in the grocery retail industry. Later that year the business adopted the present name. The first official Superdrug Store opened in Putney, London on 26 April 1966. By 1968 there was a total of three stores trading, Putney, Croydon and Streatham, also in the same year Superdrug acquired its first distribution centre, which was situated in Wimbledon.
The chain grew rapidly and expanded to a chain of 40 stores by the early 1970s and in 1971, The Rite Aid Corporation, an American drugstore chain, acquired 49% of the business.
By 1981, there were 300 Superdrug stores in the United Kingdom and they opened their 11,148 m² (120,000 ft²) distribution centre and office complex at Beddington Lane in Croydon. This particular distribution centre closed in July 2007 and the southern distribution operation moved to Dunstable, although the head office remains in Croydon. The northern distribution operates from Pontefract.
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