Superdrug

Superdrug Stores plc
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail
Founded28 May 1964 (1964-05-28)
Founders
Headquarters
Croydon, England
Number of locations
796 (as of December 2017)
Key people
Products
  • B. Skincare & Make-Up
  • Optimum High Tech Skincare
  • Solait Suncare & Bronzing
  • Studio London
Services
  • Prescriptions
  • Health checks
  • Threading
  • Laser hair removal
  • Piercing
Revenue £1.53 billion, up 12% on 2022. (2023)
Pre-tax profit of £111.6m (2023)
OwnerA.S. Watson Group
ParentCK Hutchison Holdings
Subsidiaries
  • Superdrug On-Line Doctor
  • Superdrug Opticians
  • Superdrug Mobile (Joint venture with Three UK)
  • Beauty; Studio by Superdrug
Websitesuperdrug.com

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 which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. It was acquired as part of the buyout of Kruidvat BV in October 2002. The A.S Watson Group is itself part of the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings.

Superdrug trades from nearly nine hundred shops across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and also serves Denmark, Finland and Sweden online. The company employs over 14,000. Besides offering health and beauty products online and in shops, there are pharmacies with consultation rooms in over 220 shops, and a further 19 contain nurse clinics. It maintains links with sister companies also owned by A.S. Watson Group: Savers and The Perfume Shop.