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“Prove That You’ve Won Somewhere”: The Bridge Mentorship Program Is Guiding Brands To Score Funds In A Shaky Market
In today’s uncertain market, investors are looking for brands that remove some of the uncertainty. “The most important thing when you’re talking to investors, especially when you’re a small brand, is to prove that...
Pretty Well Beauty To Open First Brick-And-Mortar Store At The World Trade Center, Launch Haircare Brand
Pretty Well Beauty, the clean beauty e-tailer that launched in 2019, is branching into brick-and-mortar retail with a store opening at Westfield World Trade Center by the end of the month.
New Online Beauty Marketplace Skinholy Is Built To Spotlight And Support Emerging Beauty Brands
After Karolina Szafranska, a former architect and designer for Jimmy Choo, Diane von Furstenberg and WeWork, launched luxury microbiome skincare line Hyd last year, she quickly realized the cost of doing business at retail was too great for the...
Retail News Report: Kohl’s CEO Steps Down, Amazon Grapples With Losses, And NRF Forecasts “Healthy” Holiday Sales
With inflation remaining unflinchingly high and domestic job growth in the United States showing signs of contraction, Americans are contending with serious stressors that don’t have anything to do with in-laws as they head into...
Retail Buyers Highlight Standout Brands And Products From Adit Live Los Angeles 2022
Following a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic, Beauty Independent’s parent company Indie Beauty Media Group (IBMG), which produced Indie Beauty Expo (IBE) and BeautyX summits...
Interested In Getting Into Cos Bar? Here’s What You Need To Know
Disillusioned by the prevailing department store model with siloed beauty counters, entrepreneur Lily Garfield founded specialty luxury beauty retailer Cos Bar in 1976 to be the complete opposite. “The whole concept with Cos Bar was,...
Facial Bar Concept Clean Your Dirty Face Plots Product And Location Expansion
Shama Patel dreamed up the facial bar concept Clean Your Dirty Face as a solution to a real estate problem. The ex-attorney was searching for properties in downtown...
