Holland & Barrett is planning to open up to 50 new stores in the UK next year as it ramps up its expansion plans.
It forms part of the health and wellness retailer’s investment into physical stores, which saw the business open 35 new sites and refurbish 280 during the past year.
The targeted store expansion for next year includes standalone stores, new formats and instore concessions with its retail partners, The Grocer reported.
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Holland & Barrett property and format director Nick Gerrard said the business was in talks with new partners about expanding its concessions network, particularly on sites located on retail parks such as supermarkets.
“There are some undeniable facts, we want Holland & Barrett to be accessible.
“We’ve only got 19 standalone sites on retail parks, because generally the size of boxes available to us are too big.
“However, there’s partners in those retail parks, be that Tesco or Next or whoever, who actually have spare space and want to make their offer more interesting to the customers that shop with them.”
Holland & Barrett has under 50 concessions in Tesco stores and plans to open at least another eight by Christmas.
It also teamed up with Next in July to launch concessions within three of the high street giant’s stores.
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