M&S Lisburn (Sprucefield Shopping Complex) has been selected as one of five destination stores across the UK to feature a Benefit Cosmetics counter.
This Autumn/ Winter, Northern Ireland customers will be able to shop the Benefit collection in the M&S Lisburn store and at M&S.com with free click & collect next day delivery to over 700 M&S locations.
Lisburn is one of five destination M&S stores** that will be home to a Benefit Cosmetics counter, with beauty experts on hand to assist customers on makeup products and tips & tricks for instant beauty fixes. Whilst an additional 10 stores will have product available – displayed in a bespoke Benefit Cosmetics fixture.
The collection will comprise of more than 200 products and will include all the brand’s one-of-a-kind cult favourites like Benetint, They’re Real! Mascara, the POREfessional Face Primer, Hoola Bronzer and Gimme Brow+ with prices ranging from £12.50 to £48.
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Tara Singleton, Head of Beauty at M&S, said: “We are so pleased to be welcoming Benefit Cosmetics as our latest partner as we continue to introduce dynamic third-party brands to complement our own beauty offer, helping us become more relevant, more often for our customers. Beauty plays a big part in our ‘Brands at M&S’ strategy as we know brands such as Benefit Cosmetics inspire loyalty and repeat purchase around their cult products and therefore play an important role in how and where customers shop. Bringing these brands to M&S.com and selected stores, will give customers – both existing and new – more reasons to shop with M&S.”
The launch follows the successful partnership with global skincare and make-up brand, Clinique, earlier this year. Over the past 12 months, M&S Beauty has been evolving at pace to be more relevant, more often to its 22m customers through exclusive own brand products (including Apothecary which has grown to a £20m brand in just two years) and complementary third-party brand partnerships as part of the wider ‘Brands at M&S’ strategy (including Aveda, Clinique, Origins, REN, Emma Hardie, Eve Lom and Prai).
Last year c.15% of M&S Clothing & Home customers shopped beauty which represents an opportunity for growth by encouraging cross-category shopping through various initiatives and M&S’s loyalty scheme, Sparks.
Sarah Harbon, General Manager of Benefit Cosmetics, said: “The launch of Benefit Cosmetics on M&S reflects our commitment to making our products accessible, we are passionate about building a beauty community for all and delighted to be joining M&S Beauty. The partnership will provide a unique omnichannel opportunity for new and our existing customers to easily shop and discover the UK’s no. 1 Prestige Makeup brand alongside leading British retailer, M&S.”
The M&S partnership with Benefit Cosmetics comes as the roll out of third-party clothing brands on M&S.com continues to go from strength to strength – the average online basket size for clothing brands is more than twice the average for M&S.com with brands contributing c.3.5% of total online sales in the first half of the year, 1.2 million customers have shopped with ‘Brands at M&S’.
