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AS Watson Group (or AS Watson or ASW) is the world's largest international health and beauty retailer by number of stores, with over 16,500 stores in 28 markets, primarily in Asia and Europe. [1] A member of CK Hutchison Holdings, ASW operates the world's largest portfolio of retail formats, retail brands and has the largest geographical presence.
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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 AS Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Limited [3] [a] which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. It was acquired as part of the buyout of Kruidvat BV in October 2002.
Watsons (Chinese: 屈臣氏; Jyutping: Wat 1 san 4 si 6) is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe. It is the flagship health and beauty brand of AS Watson , which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings .
The company grew to 176 stores before being sold to A.S. Watson, the retail and manufacturing arm of CK Hutchison Holdings, the conglomerate based in Hong Kong in July 2000. [3] Subsequently, A.S. Watson acquired Kruidvat BV, the owner of the chain Superdrug in 2002. [4] Following this, many Savers stores were converted to the Superdrug format.
In Europe, ASW's retail network comprises health and beauty chains: DC, Drogas, Kruidvat, Rossmann, Savers Health & Beauty, Superdrug, Trekpleister [fr; nl], Spektr and Watson's, as well as luxury perfumeries and cosmetics retail brands: Marionnaud, ICI Paris XL and The Perfume Shop. A.S. Watson is the world's largest health and beauty retailer.
It also holds 50% of Rossmann in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, in addition to Superdrug in the United Kingdom since August 2002. [1] [2] [3] Kruidvat Holding was sold to the Hong Kong based company A.S. Watson in November 2002 for €1.3 billion. [4]
The Rossmann family owns 60% of the company. The Hong Kong–based A.S. Watson Group owns 40%, which was taken over from the Dutch Kruidvat in 2004. [6] [7] [8] The product range includes up to 21,700 items and can vary depending on the size of the shop and the location.