Superdrug expansion to 700 stores

Healthcare and beauty chain Superdrug is planning on opening at least 35 stores in the UK this year, including smaller format stores. The addition of the new stores will bring the total number of stores of the privately owned chain to 720.

Superdrug is part of the AS Watson group, the retail division of the Hong Kong Hutchison Whampoa conglomerate. In May of last year, the company said it believed that the UK could handle 1,000 Superdrug outlets.