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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Pharmacy Health care Beauty care |
| Founded | 1828 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Area served | |
Key people | Dominic Lai Malina Ngai |
| Parent | AS Watson |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 屈臣氏 | ||||||
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| Kana | ワトソンズ | ||||||
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| Hangul | 왓슨스 | ||||||
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Watsons (Chinese: 屈臣氏; Jyutping: Wat1san4si6) is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe. It is the flagship health and beauty brand of AS Watson, which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings.
It operates 8,000 stores and 1,500 pharmacies in 15 Asian and European markets, including Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, mainland China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.[1] [2][3] Its South Korean branch closed down in 2021.
- ^ "Watsons Expands into Middle East with New Stores Across GCC". A.S. Watson Group Corporate Website. 27 January 2022.
- ^ Ray Chan (22 March 2014). "Li Ka-shing sells nearly 25pc of AS Watson to Singapore investment giant Temasek". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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