Lush plans to open larger stores with spas and hairdressers as it returns to profit.
The cosmetics retailer said that buying out its US partner had helped it to almost double sales, even while it wrote off its 63-store Russian and Ukraine business.
Leases on about a fifth of the British stores had been renegotiated, with rents almost halved to reflect the impact of the pandemic on the high street, he added.
But co-founder Mark Constantine said that stores with landlords with “dogmatic views” on rental income had closed.
