Last Thursday, June 24, Integration’s Freya Tomley, Jamie Gale and Robin Griffiths hosted a webinar together with the Health & Beauty Association (H&BA) to discuss the main commercial impacts of the recent global pandemic and to identify priorities for the UK’s health & beauty industry moving ahead.

The webinar focused on a detailed report containing an assessment of 30 interviews that Integration and the H&BA conducted with representatives from health & beauty firms in the UK.

The three main themes that we identified were:

• Health & beauty suppliers are looking to understand how to grow post-pandemic by identifying new spaces for growth
• Firms are seeing increasing pressure in their traditional channels, which is changing the way they approach the leading pharmacy and supermarket chains
• The health & beauty industry sees changing consumer demands, such as an increasing demand for sustainability, as a key priority for 2021

During the webinar, we presented the findings of the report to around 40 health & beauty firms, with led to an interesting discussion centered around shared learnings across industries, such as how food & beverage firms have experienced similar changes in their businesses recently.

We would like to thank the H&BA for agreeing to collaborate and host this eye-opening event as well as all the participants for joining in on the discussion and sharing their perspectives.

To find out more about some of the main topics on the minds of key players in the UK’s health & beauty industry, you can read the full report here.