BI Staff
Inside A 40-Year Contract Manufacturing Playbook And How The Next Generation Is Rewriting It
As private equity activity in beauty picks back up and large players continue acquiring brands and capabilities, contract manufacturing is consolidating just as product cycles are compressing. Beauty brands are rethinking what they need from a...
The Courage To Care: Zein And Samar Obagi, The Partnership That Helped Shape Modern Skin Health
History has a way of smoothing disruption. What looks inevitable in hindsight rarely felt that way in real time, especially to the people doing the disrupting. Long before “skin health” became a category, before physician-dispensed skincare was...
You Made It Into Retail. Now What?
For many emerging beauty brands, landing a national retail account is a defining milestone. Months or even years of product development, brand building and community engagement culminate in the moment a purchase order arrives.
The New Mandate For Beauty CEOs
In a market defined by compressed exit timelines, tighter capital, omnichannel fragmentation and digital disruption, the CEO hire may be the single most consequential decision a board makes. It’s no longer enough to simply steer a...
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...
Obagi Enters Injectables With Obagi Saypha MagIQ And Rewrites The Economics Of Skin Health
For decades, Obagi Medical has occupied a distinctive position in professional skincare: physician-dispensed, clinically grounded, yet widely recognized by consumers as a brand in its own right. With the launch of Obagi Saypha MagIQ, that identity expands into...
Scaling At The Speed Of Tech: Don’t Let ERP Slow Success
As fast-growing brands expand across channels and product lines, many are finding that spreadsheets can’t keep up, pushing them toward ERP-style systems to prevent inventory errors and unlock scalable growth. “Managing inventory in spreadsheets...
