| |
H1 Sales |
Sales Growth |
LFL Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | £932.2m | 6.2% | 5.8% |
| - Dispensing | 6.6% | ||
| - OTC Medicines | 5.5% | ||
| Beauty & Toiletries | £893.5m | 4.1% | 2.5% |
| - Cosmetics & Fragrance | 4.7% | ||
| - Toiletries | 1.7% | ||
| - Beauty Accessories | 11.5% | ||
| Lifestyle | £345.4m | 3.2% | 1.6% |
| - Food | 8.9% | ||
| - Baby | 5.9% | ||
| - Photo | -7.4% |
Our Lifestyle businesses showed overall positive growth up 3.2%.
Food sales up 9% benefited from the new Atkins diet range and a 22% increase in Shapers following its relaunch in January.
Baby sales were up 6% due to more competitive pricing of food and consumables and wider range.
Photo sales continue to suffer from the decline in the traditional developing and printing market. We estimate this to be down a further 23% in H1. This is increasingly offset by growth in digital printing which now accounts for 20% of the total. Sales of digital cameras grew threefold.
