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Celebrity Makeup Artist Fiona Stiles Wants To Level Up Her Beauty E-Commerce Business Reed Clarke
After nine years of selling her beauty favorites at Reed Clarke, celebrity makeup artist Fiona Stiles is ready to level up the e-commerce business. Launched as a passion project with...
SkinSpirit Acquires Med-Spa Locations To Expand Its Reach Across The Country
The med-spa chain SkinSpirit is snapping up small aesthetic businesses with gusto as it extends its network of locations nationwide. After buying Contempo Aesthetics in Pasadena, Calif., in June, SkinSpirit has purchased...
Executives Behind The Outset, Homecourt And Loved01 Tell Us How The Celebrity Brands Are Built For The Long Haul
Contrary to popular belief, not all celebrities think of beauty brands as cash grabs, according to executives behind celebrity beauty brands. Three of those executives—Avantha Arachchi, COO at A-Frame Brands, the personal care...
How Department Stores Lost Relevancy—And What They’re Doing To Regain It
More than twenty years after American department stores started to decline, the former titans of retail haven’t regained their edge. Strained by slumping sales, debt, mismanagement and shifting consumer sentiment, several legacy department stores...
What’s Selling At Adore Beauty
Shoppers at Adore Beauty, the leading pure-play online beauty platform in Australia, are snapping up clinical skincare products from across the price spectrum. SkinCeuticals, Alpha H, The Ordinary and...
“Custodians Of Capital”: How Corporate-Aligned VC Funds Bold Ventures, Access Ventures And Unilever Ventures View Their Roles
The venture capital arms of major consumer packaged goods companies want to set the record straight on common misconceptions about them. They may be largely unencumbered by the burden of fundraising, but that doesn’t...
Livestream Shopping Has Yet To Live Up To Its Promise In The US. Will It Ever?
Livestream shopping is in its infancy in the United States—and it’s not clear whether it will get more mature. The market research firm Coresight Research is bullish on it taking off, predicting the livestream e-commerce...
