Beauty company Avon to open first UK stores in its 137-year history

Group famous for house-to-house visits is to open franchises as it also expands deal with Superdrug

Avon, the beauty company famous for building a global business by making house-to-house visits, is to open its first physical UK stores in its 137-year history.

The company, which was founded in New York in 1886 by the travelling book salesman David H McConnell, has had to strategically rethink its business model after its 5 million door-to-door sales representatives had to stop making Avon house calls during the Covid pandemic.