Kline Identifies Likely Indie Beauty Acquisition Targets

Science, not sex appeal, is the beauty industry’s strongest selling point today. That’s the conclusion Kline & Company. is drawing in a new report listing 20 likely indie beauty acquisition targets across skincare,...

Inertia, Olive Young’s Top Period Care Brand, Launches In The U.S. With New Absorbent Technology

Inertia, a South Korean startup founded by scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, is applying new technology to a category whose core absorbent materials have changed little in decades: disposable period...

The Top 10 Brands Driving Fragrance Sales On TikTok Shop

Once upon a time, discovering a new fragrance meant wandering a department store, blotter strip in hand. Today, it happens mid-scroll. On TikTok, a creator can describe a scent as a “second skin” or “memory you...

Fragrance Still Rules Beauty’s Digital Conversation. Here’s What’s Trending.

Fragrance sales growth may be cooling, but the category remains beauty’s most active area of consumer conversation. It was up 18.4% last year on artificial intelligence-powered market research platform Spate’s Popularity Index,...

RoC’s Renaissance: How A Near-Forgotten Heritage Brand Became A Private Equity Growth Driver

In 2018, RoC was a profitable, but smaller asset within one of the largest healthcare conglomerates in the world. Six years later, it had tripled global retail sales from roughly $100 million to...