Beauty retailer returns are looking good

Online beauty retailer Feelunique.com has beat its own financial targets for the first half of the year, reporting like-for-like sales in the six months to the end of September had risen by 57 per cent to £10.4m.

The business has now has revised its sales forecast for the full year to £26.5m from £24m. In the last financial year, turnover was £16m with pre-tax profits of £1.1m. The business, run by Aaron Chatterley, bought Au Caprice, owner of two beauty shops on Jersey and Guernsey last month.