AS Watson Group (ASW) celebrated another corporate milestone following its flagship retail brand Watsons reaching 4,000 stores at the end of 2013. Growing rapidly across Asia and Eastern Europe, in the past 3 years Watsons has been organically expanding its store portfolio, to bring quality Health & Beauty products and professional services to customers.
Watsons is dedicated in promoting health and wellness through participation of sports. In addition to sponsoring the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix Hong Kong, the brand also joined hands with the Volleyball Association of Hong Kong to organise Watsons Care & Love Volleyball Campaign for the second year, which aims to spread love and care to the community by teaching children soft volleyball skills through workshops. Watsons also invited 1,200 students and their family members to watch the Grand Prix, to experience the excitement and sportsmanship of the game.
The first e-commerce store opened by Watsons Taiwan in Yahoo! Supermall manifested its impressive success amongst the total of over 2,000 stores, receiving the highest votes from the online users to win the Most Popular Store Award. With its highest sales achieved in the Beauty Category, the store has also been given the Super Golden Store Award.
