Statement regarding THG Beauty

22 February 2022

THG PLC

Statement regarding THG Beauty and the recent share price movement

THG PLC ("THG" or the "Group") notes the fall in the share price yesterday and confirms that it knows of no notifiable reason for the share price movement.

In response to recent media speculation regarding the restriction of supplies to THG Beauty, THG can also confirm that:

·      Dermalogica has not placed and is not looking to place any restrictions on its trading relationship with THG Beauty, including with regard to the supply of stock.  

·      The Dermalogica and THG Beauty trading relationship is over 10 years in length and whilst it remains very positive the overall revenues generated are de minimis to the Group, at c.0.1% of FY 2021 sales.

·      It is not aware of any other key supplier to THG Beauty who has or who intends to reduce supply or take any similar steps in relation to THG Beauty.

·      THG Beauty added over 200 new beauty brands to its retail destination sites, on a net basis, during FY 2021.

THG entered the beauty market at the end of 2010 and, as THG Beauty, has since grown into a business delivering prestige beauty sales of £1.1bn during its 2021 financial year. THG remains focused on building long-term relationships with its suppliers.

THG Beauty is the pre-eminent, digital-first brand owner, retailer and manufacturer in the prestige beauty market, providing a global route to market for over 1,000 third-party beauty brands. This makes THG a key partner for brands looking to deliver growth in digital sales.

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Notes to editors

THG (www.thg.com) is a vertically integrated, digital-first consumer brands group, retailing its own brands in beauty and nutrition, plus third-party brands, via its proprietary, end-to-end, e-commerce technology, infrastructure and brand-building platform (THG Ingenuity) to an online and global customer base. THG's business is operated through the following businesses:

THG Ingenuity: Ingenuity Commerce provides an end-to-end direct-to-consumer e-commerce solution for consumer brand owners under 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) licences. The wider Ingenuity division provides stand-alone digital services, including hosting, studio content, translation services and beauty product development and manufacturing.

THG Beauty: The globally pre-eminent digital-first brand owner, retailer and manufacturer in the prestige beauty market, combining its prestige portfolio of eight owned brands across skincare, haircare and cosmetics, the provision of a global route to market for over 1,000 third-party beauty brands through its portfolio of websites, including Lookfantastic, Dermstore, Cult Beauty and Mankind and the beauty subscription box brand GLOSSYBOX.  

THG Nutrition: A group of digital-first Nutrition brands, which includes the world's largest online sports nutrition brand Myprotein, and its family brands (Myvegan, Myvitamins, MP Clothing and Myprotein Pro), with a vertically integrated business model, supported by six THG production facilities.

THG OnDemand: Personalisation and customisation is a key offering within THG OnDemand, enabling brands to offer unique products to a vast range of consumers across THG's global territories through websites including Zavvi, IWOOT and Pop in a Box.

Other: Luxury D2C websites including Coggles, AllSole and MyBag, in addition to THG Experience. The latter comprises prestige events locations at Hale Country Club & Spa, King Street Townhouse Hotel and Great John Street Hotel, providing deeply experiential brand building environments, most notably in support of THG Society, the Group's proprietary influencer marketing platform.