Read yourself healthy in 2024!
Our long-standing Partner, Viridian Nutrition, is offering 10 boxes stuffed full of health and nutrition books for the first 10 stores that join Health Stores UK during January 2024. Each ‘Read Yourself Healthy’ book box has a retail value of at least £100. We think this New Year initiative from Viridian adds even greater value […]
Retailers hear how they can harness the power of social media
Independent health food retailers gained valuable insights into how they can harness the power of social media, during a lively online workshop co-hosted by small business mentor Dave Christie and Health Stores UK. For this session, Dave – founder of Take on Goliath – brought along social media specialist Helen Dobson of Core Social. The […]
Free resources for indies as Soil Association launches health and wellbeing focused New Year campaign
The Soil Association will begin a PR campaign in January that will focus on organic as part of a healthy lifestyle. Drawing on the growing awareness of gut health and the microbiome and the nutritional differences of organic food, we want to join the dots between how a healthy soil microbiome could benefit a healthy […]
Get ready for Health Store Mastermind Forum!
What keeps you awake at night? Need some fresh marketing ideas? Too busy to plan ahead? If this sounds like you, you’ll want to sign up to our Health Store Mastermind Forum, co-hosted by Cheryl Thallon, owner of Viridian Nutrition and Daventry-based Sheaf Street Health Store. This informal ‘drop-in’ Zoom session is designed to be […]
Autumn statement: Business rates relief extension welcome, but small retailers face ever higher costs
Health Stores UK has welcomed aspects of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, but warns that high business costs continue to threaten the viability of crucially needed independent retailers. Key elements announced by Jeremy Hunt in the House of Commons on Wednesday included: • A cut in the main 12% rate of employee national insurance contributions by […]
Can Yarrow help with IBS?
Here, Kate Harris, a product trainer at Health Stores UK Partner A. Vogel, asks ‘can yarrow help with IBS?’. Kate looks at latest research that has investigated yarrow’s anti-inflammatory and healing properties. And she advises on how consumers can safely take yarrow supplements for digestive complaints. How the herb Yarrow can help ease the symptoms of […]
High street rental auctions could be game-changer
A new government bill that gives local councils powers to run compulsory auctions on vacant shop units could be a “game-changer” says the retail industry support group Save The High Street. The proposal, part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (passed on 26 October), would give local authorities the power to insist that landlords […]
Indies urged to get behind Love Your High Street Week
Independent retailers are being urged to get behind a week-long celebration this month of all things indie. Love Your High Street Week is organised by the British Independent Retailer Association (Bira) and will be held on Monday 13th November 2023 – Sunday 19th November 2023. The initiative aims to show consumers why shopping locally is good for […]
Holland & Barrett trials over-the-counter medicines listings
Holland & Barret is trialling sales of over-the-counter medicines and health products in 20 of its stores. The surprise nmove is designed to widen the retailer’s shopper appeal, while responding to accessibility issues with OTC medicines due to the loss of hundreds of community pharmacies in the last few years. The Grocer reports that H&B’s initial branded OTC […]
NHT Summit organiser donates £2,100 to Health Stores UK
NHT Summit organiser Target Publishing has made a donation to Health Stores UK to help fund its vital work for independent health food retailers. Len Glenville, Health Stores UK chair, commented: “We are proud of our partnership with the Natural Health Trade Summit as an event dedicated to independent health food stores and would like to thank […]
