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Watson's

Watsons Personal Care Stores
Subsidiary of A.S. Watson Group
Industry Pharmacy
Health care
Beauty care
Founded 1828
Headquarters Hong Kong
Area served
Hong Kong
China
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Philippines
Japan
South Korea
Singapore
Malaysia
Ukraine
Latvia
Lithuania
Julian Island
Key people
Li Ka-shing
Canning Fok
Parent A.S. Watson Group
Website Watsons Personal Care Stores (Hong Kong)
Watsons
Chinese name
Chinese 屈臣氏
Japanese name
Kana ワトソンズ
Korean name
Hangul 왓슨스

Watsons Personal Care Stores (traditional Chinese: 屈臣氏個人護理店; simplified Chinese: 屈臣氏个人护理店; pinyin: Qūchénshì Gèrén Hùlǐ Diàn; Jyutping: Wat1san4si6go3jan4wu6lei5dim3), known simply as Watsons (屈臣氏), is the largest health care and beauty care chain store in Asia. It is a member of the A.S. Watson Group, majority-owned by CK Hutchison Holdings. It operates over 700 stores in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia.

Dr. Thomas Boswell Watson (1815–1860), from Scotland, was the first member of the Watson family to arrive in the Far East, where in 1845 he set up a private practice in Macau, on the south west coast of China. After selling his practice to a fellow doctor, he moved to Hong Kong in 1856 where he became part owner of the Hong Kong Dispensary, an offshoot of the Canton Dispensary which operated from 1828–1858. Known as the "Big Medicine Shop" (Chinese: 大藥房; Cantonese: Dai Yeuk Fong), the dispensary's main customers were soldiers and sailors. The dispensary was not known as A.S. Watson until 1870 although Alexander Skirving Watson took over in 1858 following management changes. T.B. Watson sent his family back to Scotland in 1857 and he himself followed two years later.


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