Mannings

Mannings (traditional Chinese: 萬寧; simplified Chinese: 万宁; pinyin: Wànníng; Jyutping: maan6 ning4) is a personal care product chain owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings, which is in turn owned by Jardine Matheson. It is known as Guardian (佳寕; 佳宁; Jiānìng; gaai1 ning4) for Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, and Singapore.[1] By the end of 2016, there were 1715 stores in Asia, 355 in Hong Kong, 17 in Macau, 228 in Mainland China, 425 in Malaysia, 245 in Indonesia, 23 in Brunei, 47 in Vietnam, 126 in Singapore, 5 in Cambodia, and 246 in the Philippines. The total income of Mannings in 2017 was US$2.8 billion. Its major rivals include Watsons which is owned by CK Hutchison Holdings.

A Mannings shop in Hong Kong

A Mannings shop in Suzhou, Mainland China

With more than 350 outlets, Mannings is Hong Kong's largest health and beauty product chain store aimed at a broad spectrum of consumers, providing a wide range of health care, personal care, skin care and baby products. Also, proactively providing innovative services and leading the industry to serve the needs of health and beauty of the general public.[2]

Mannings has been awarded by the Hong Kong Retail Management Association's through their Mystery Shopper Program as the "Best Service Retailer" for six consecutive years. Mannings has also been voted as the “No.1 Customers’ Favourite Brand" in a customer’s telephone survey conducted by Ipsos for 13 consecutive years (2004 to 2016).