Hanafins

Press, 20 November 1978, Page 14

Hanafins

Once again the wellestablished family firm of Hanafins Chemists has expanded. With their 24 square metre extension into the naw High Street Arcade, they have increased their floor-space by 50 per cent, making a specialised cosmetic service possible. This also provides the shop with three entrances, one each on High and Hereford Streets, and one via the arcade.

Hanafins began in a small brick building in Stanmore Road in 1922. Five years later they moved to the corner of Hereford and High Street, a site they only vacated in May of last year, when they moved to their present premises next to the arcade.

Today, the business is owned by the son of Hanafins’ founder. Mr George Hanafin and his son Brian. Next door, another of the founder’s sons Mr John Hanafin deals in surgical garments. With their expansion, Hanafins are keeping pace with increased customer demand in an extremely busy section of the city. The shop caters for both the early workers in the many adjacent commercial buildings and the later

shoppers from the suburbs.

Although the main reason for the additional floor-space is an improved cosmetic range, Hanafins also intend to improve their pharmaceutical service and start a bathroom department, which will stock quality guest-towers and fittings. Hanafins also hope to give their prescription customers a more thorough and personalised service. For those customers that require it, personal pharmaceutical records will be kept to assist in remembering medication and treatments already taken. The shop offers a while-you-wait service of two or three minutes for most ordinary prescriptions.

The shop’s new cosmetic department will be headed by Mrs Audrey Kerr, a fully qualified Rubinstein consultant who has been in cosmetics for 15 years. All Hanafins staff are trained as consultants in most of the five cosmetic brands that are stocked — Shiseido, Max Factor, Innoxa, Revlon, and Coty. Hanafins will also extend the range of their French perfumes.