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Savers Health & Beauty (founded in 1988 as Savers Drugstores) is a discount chain of more than five hundred stores, owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd, which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. It is a value retailer selling 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 A.S. Watson Group (or A.S. Watson or ASW) is the world's largest international health and beauty retailer, with over 16,000 stores in 27 markets worldwide serving over 5.3 billion customers every year, and over 137 million loyalty programme mem ...

, the retail and manufacturing arm of

CK Hutchison Holdings CK Hutchison Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-based and Cayman Islands-registered multinational conglomerate corporation. The company was formed in March 2015 through the merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and its main associate company Hutchison Wh ...

, the conglomerate based in Hong Kong in July 2000. Subsequently, A.S. Watson acquired Kruidvat BV, the owner of the chain

Superdrug Superdrug Stores plc (trading as Superdrug) is a health and beauty retailer in the United Kingdom, and the second largest behind Boots UK. The company is owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. It ...

in August 2002. Following this, many Savers stores were converted to the format of Superdrug. Some of those Superdrug stores were later re converted back into Savers stores, including a branch at

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. The company is based in

Dunstable Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the ...

near Luton; the home office building doubles as one of A.S. Watson large distribution centres in the United Kingdom, serving Savers,

, and

The Perfume Shop The Perfume Shop is a United Kingdom perfume retailer founded in 1992 and owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd, which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. The A.S. Watson Group acquired The Perfume Shop in 2005. The company is based in H ...

. Customer service operations are based at Superdrug's head office in

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, and the company's registered office is Hutchinson House,

Battersea, London Battersea is a large district in south London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and extends along the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the Battersea Park. History Batte ...

. As of , Savers operates more than four hundred stores.

References

External links

Savers website
* Retail companies established in 1988 British companies established in 1988 Discount shops of the United Kingdom British subsidiaries of foreign companies CK Hutchison Holdings Companies based in Bedfordshire 2000 mergers and acquisitions {{UK-retail-company-stub