Savers (UK retailer)

Savers Health & Beauty Ltd
Company type	Subsidiary of A.S. Watson Group
Industry	Retail
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Dunstable, Luton England
Key people	Dominic Lai (Group Managing Director), Peter Mcnab (CEO Health & Beauty UK), Doug Winchester (Managing Director)
Products	Health & Beauty Products
Owner	A.S. Watson Group
Parent	CK Hutchison Holdings
Website	www.savers.co.uk

Savers Health & Beauty (founded in 1988 as Savers Drugstores) is a discount chain of over four hundred stores based in the United Kingdom, retailing a variety of health, beauty, household goods, medicines, and fragrances.

History

The company gradually expanded throughout the 1990s, before acquiring the one hundred strong Supersave chain of drugstores from GHEA. The company grew to 176 stores before being sold to A.S. Watson, the retail and manufacturing arm of CK Hutchison Holdings, the Hong Kong based conglomerate in July 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Subsequently, A.S. Watson acquired Kruidvat BV, the owner of the Superdrug chain. Following this, many Savers stores were converted to the Superdrug format. ^{[citation needed]} Some of those Superdrug stores were later re converted back into Savers stores, including a branch at Holywell, Flintshire.

The company is based in Dunstable near Luton; the home office building doubles as one of A.S. Watson large distribution centres in the United Kingdom, serving Savers, Superdrug, and The Perfume Shop. Customer service operations are based at Superdrug's head office in Croydon, London, and the company's registered office is Hutchinson House, Battersea, London.

As of 2019, Savers operates over four hundred stores.^[1]

References

^ "About Us". Savers. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

External links

Savers website
A.S. Watson site
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[Savers-1] "About Us". Savers. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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