Healthguard opens high-end flagship store in the heart of Colombo 7
Country’s leading health, wellness and beauty retailer also unveils online store in latest expansion
Sunshine Holdings’ health and beauty retail brand, Healthguard, opened its newest store at Maitland Crescentrecently. The Healthguard flagship, a one-stop shop with a extensive range of health, wellness and beauty productsfrom trusted brands was declared open amidst a gathering of celebrities, leading figures in the hair and beauty industry, retail industry and management of Sunshine Holdings.
Healthguard’sonline store www.healthguard.lk was also officially commenced and customers have easy access to a range of local and international products and brands, just a click away.Delivery within Colombo city limits will be within 24 hours and 48 hours for suburbs. Over 4,000 products will be available for purchase online, with safety being the highest priority. Healthguard ensures that all products are registered brands.
The new Maitland Crescent store, the 20th outlet in the Healthguard chain which strongly embodies the company’s new brand identity featuring spacious isles and eye-catching lighting, enables discerning customers to locate a range of quality health, wellness and beauty products from many reputed brands and thereby fulfils a range of needs ranging from medication, cosmetics, personal and skincare care products, travel accessories, baby products etc.
Healthguard is owned by Sunshine Healthcare Lanka (SHL) Ltd. – a group company of the Sunshine Holdings conglomerate.
Managing Director of Sunshine Healthcare, ShyamSathasivam speaking at the opening, said “The Maitland Crescent store strongly reflects our new vibrant brand identity and evolution into a fully-fledged health, wellness and beauty retailer with a diverse product and brand portfolio.”
“It also represents the ever expanding reach of Healthguard, which now owns 20 stores in Colombo as well as pharma outlets in leading supermarket chain, which is our overall vision – which is to emphasize health and wellness,” noted Sathasivam.
Backed by the legacy of 48 years in the healthcare space and still rooted in healthcare, the new Healthguards will have over 6,000 products on offer. Store timings are 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day of the week. Healthguard’s strategy is to be the go-to destination for cosmetics, personal grooming, childcare products, travel accessories, sports and energy supplements along with Over The Counter (OTC) and prescription drugs. The offer of wellness and beauty is not only for convenience and efficiency but to provide the ambience and environment for customers to linger and enjoy the experience of beauty advisers and experts while browsing from make-up to energy drinks and sports accessories.
“The proposition that appeals to the Millennial is to be able to buy energy drinks, a moisturizer, blush and a prescription drug in one basket,” explained Sathasivam.
Offering a higher level of touch and service, the Healthguard flagship offers a phenomenal selection of brands, while the brand Healthguard itself is being up-scaled across their retail outlets to reflect the same level of high-end reach.
