After Sales Dip, Eco-Conscious Haircare Brand Flora Flora Lands Nationwide Whole Foods Rollout
Flora Flora Co. is rolling out to about 370 Whole Foods Market stores nationwide, and sales for the sustainable haircare company founded in 2021 are on an upward trajectory for 2026. It’s a scenario founder Sarah Cloes...
Lyma’s Luxury At-Home Laser Devices Power A $48M Business
The beauty device market is notoriously tough, with high upfront development costs, tricky margin profiles and the reality that many products end up unused in a customer’s bottom drawer or are returned. Lyma, which started with...
Sephora Gets Edgier In Fragrance With Niche International Brands
With Kayali as the No. 1 fragrance brand at Sephora last year, the retailer appears to have learned its customers have a taste for international influences. Now, it’s pushing further in that direction by bringing in Borntostandout...
In A Noisy World, Founders Reprioritize Their Roles To Focus As Their Brands Grow
Six years into Three Ships Beauty, Connie Lo is shifting from a scrappy co-founder to a true co-CEO to help scale the skincare brand from $16 million in sales to $50 million over the next two to...
An Investor’s Perspective On Why Good Light Is Shutting Down
When a brand’s funding round is announced, venture capitalists are happy to chime in to hype its business. But when a brand closes, a development baked into the VC business model, they’re usually nowhere to be seen. If...
