All Healthcare articles – Page 55
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NewsFocus On Vitamins & Supplements: Grey pound pushes up sales
Following a sluggish 2010, the UK’s vitamins and supplements market faces fresh hurdles in 2011. Can a growing elderly population help it stay in good shape? Tara Craig reports
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Focus On Vitamins & Supplements: Innovations
Strawberry-flavoured and chewable, each softie contains 250mg of calcium and 100% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin D, which aids the body's absorption of calcium. The one-a-day softies are free from gluten, yeast, wheat and artificial colours.
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Girls design an ethical plaster range for One
Ethical brand One is launching a pack of children's plasters developed by a group of schoolgirls. The One Careplast animal print plasters were designed by three students at Bushey Meads School, Hertfordshire, who entered a national...
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NewsE45 brand to target mature skin market
Reckitt Benckiser is hoping to grow the 'mature' adult body moisturiser market with an E45 brand extension. E45 Endless Moisture Derma Restore (rsp £4.59/200ml), which is going into stores now, is designed to deliver short and long-term...
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NewsFocus On Personal Care: Tipping point for personal care
Personal care shoppers have long flashed the cash, but will they stop spending now that suppliers have opted to pull the plug on deep discounts? Suzy Bashford reports
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Focus On Personal Care: Innovations
Sainsbury's has teamed up with Balinese spa chain Mandara to launch an exclusive bath and beauty line. According to beauty category manager Rhian Bartlett, the premium own label will provide "affordable home luxury" but will not carry the Sainsbury's name.
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NewsNPD fuels sales boost to settle Reckitt wobbles
Reckitt Benckiser has credited new products including Dettol No Touch soap and the wasabi-infused Strepsils Warm for robust sales growth in the past three months.
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NewsNHS removes false babyfood advice as The Grocer wades in
Health chiefs panicked into incorrectly advising parents not to give infants rice-based babyfood following media "scaremongering" over a Swedish report this week but after The Grocer alerted them, it has rectified the error.
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Analysis & FeaturesAsda’s baby brand grows up
Brands beware. Retailers are looking to steal your customers with revamped own-label lines. Rob Brown meets the team behind Asda’s Little Angels baby range to find out how fresh design and grand ambitions are converting shoppers to own label
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NewsAquafresh makes a splash at Cineworld with oral care promo
GlaxoSmithKline has struck a deal with cinema chain Cineworld to screen a 10-minute show promoting Aquafresh kids toothpastes. Under the sponsorship agreement, which runs from this month until the end of the year, the 10-minute show will…
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Focus On Beauty & Suncare
Cleansers experienced a setback in 2010, with poor sales of medicated facial cleansers. Anti-ageing products declined in both value and volume.
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Focus On Beauty & Suncare: Innovations
Up to 80% of premature ageing is caused by the sun, claims Olay. Hence the brand's latest product, Regenerist SPF 30 Flawless Skin Cream.
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NewsFocus On Beauty & Suncare: Beauty au naturel
While suncare sales may look far from sun-kissed, the beauty category is enjoying steady growth thanks to promotions and the rise of free-from products, reports Virginia Matthews
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After-shave balm is a first from Bulldog
Natural men's skincare brand Bulldog is bringing its first after-shave balm to market this month.The company said the key ingredient of its Original After Shave Balm is rosehip oil, which is known for its ability to treat dermatitis,...
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NewsSainsbury’s gets all-clear on animal testing
Sainsbury’s own-label toiletries are to carry the logo of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. Up to 200 products will display the ‘leaping bunny’ logo, the international certification that helps consumers identify cosmetics and toiletries that do not use ingredients tested on animals.
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Sanex range turns Zero% into a hero
Sanex is planning to show shoppers that less can be more with its new range of bath and shower products.The Sanex Zero% range, which includes three shower gels tailored to different skin types (rsp: £1.89) and a foam bath (rsp: £3.19),...
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NewsUnilever swaps Sanex for Colgate’s laundry business
Unilever has agreed to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive and acquire the company's laundry detergent brands.
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NewsPlum launches new yoghurts for babies
Plum is hoping to challenge Danone and Nestlé in the yoghurt aisle with a new line-up under its organic babyfood brand. The Fruity Yogurt range, available now from Tesco, Waitrose and Ocado, contains a higher percentage of fruit than its...
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NewsSensodyne to repair teeth with Novamin sealant technology
GSK is claiming a scientific breakthrough with a new Sensodyne toothpaste it says is the first to repair sensitive teeth by forming a protective "tooth-like" layer. Traditionally, sensitive care toothpastes had used a potassium...
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NewsAsda is the first to unveil its own-label babyfood
Asda has triumphed in the race to launch the first supermarket own-label babyfood range. The retailer started introducing the 14-strong Little Angels organic babyfood range to stores last week following two years of research and...