Watsons

Watsons Personal Care Stores

Type	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
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qūchénshì
Japanese name
Kana	ワトソンズ
Transcriptions Romanization Watosonzu
Korean name
Hangul	왓슨스
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Was-seunseu

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qūchénshì

Transcriptions
Romanization	Watosonzu

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Was-seunseu

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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