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Health and beauty retailer Superdrug pays out £35m in dividends to Hong Kong owner

Superdrug has paid out £35m to its owner Li Ka-shing, who also owns pub chain Greene King. The company, which had halted dividend payments in 2020, said that it paid an appropriate amount in relation to the revenue and profit delivered within the business.

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