Welltodo Today: Harrods’ Wellness Clinic Opens, Celebrity Wellness Businesses, Inside Athleta

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Harrods breaks into wellness with ‘world first’ beauty clinic

The Knightsbridge store currently offers consumers seven floors of lavish collections across 4.5 acres, making it Europe’s largest department store Luxury retailer Harrods has created another ‘world first’ with with the launch of a new Wellness Clinic. The clinic is a 10,500sqft space dedicated to improving the wellness and beauty of shoppers.

Athleta’s CEO On Balancing Strength With Softness

Nancy Green, Athleta’s CEO, describes the campaign as a deliberate effort to “break the stereotypes of health and wellness, and what strength and beauty look like by showing much more body-type diversity and age diversity.” In doing so, Athleta, a division of Gap Inc.

How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business

Bacon’s assistant evaporated out the door as her boss set a plate on the kitchen counter: strawberry-rose-geranium bars, tiny “doughnuts” made with mushroom and quinoa and a cinnamon bun that looked as if it were forged by a chic cave man with primitive tools. All of it was vegan, organic and raw.

Nestlé China unveils milk powder for brain response and memory

Nestlé has added a new milk powder with cognitive benefits for adult consumers in China, as part of its Yiyang brand. The ‘senior milk powder’ is specifically designed to help people over the age of 50 to maintain good brain response and memory as they age.