Faye Brookman
Advanced Skincare Brand The Route Paves A Path To Ulta Beauty
Nancy Pellegrino, a nurse practitioner and operator of NP Aesthetics Inc. in Newport Beach, Calif., bonded with her patient and beauty industry veteran Courtney Baber over their mutual love for skincare and the coincidence that they both cut...
Will Kylie Cosmetics Be A Savior Or Sinker For Coty Inc.?
Queried by Beauty Independent, beauty industry experts give Coty Inc.’s $600 million purchase of a 51% stake in Kylie Cosmetics a mixed grade. The deal values Kylie Cosmetics, which will be renamed Kylie Beauty to accommodate category expansion,...
Celebrity Brand Incubator Beach House Group’s Goal Is To Reach $1B In Sales
Beach House Group co-founder Shaun Neff plans to build a $1 billion company by assembling brands with celebrities to fill gaps in the consumer packaged goods market—and he’s off to an auspicious start. Under the watch of...
Wegmans Moved Into Brooklyn And Left Makeup Behind
When beloved grocer Wegmans opened its first New York City store at Brooklyn Navy Yard last month, it revealed over 50,000 products, including more than 300 varieties of cheese and 2,000 organic items, a burger bar, all manner...
Beuti Skincare, The Brand Behind Kate Middleton’s Favorite Facial Oil, Grows Its Business Beyond Kensington Palace
An influencer with millions of followers tagged your brand. That’s terrific, but it doesn’t match the impact of Kate Middleton being a fan of one of its products. When word spread that the Duchess of Cambridge keeps bottles...
Four Leading Beauty Entrepreneurs On Tweaking Business Models, Pinning Down Labs And Taking On Investment
Scrappiness can be a small beauty brand’s best asset. At a panel last month hosted by Stacklist, a community-driven effort to document entrepreneurial learnings, in New York City, founders from Cocokind, Atolla, Prose and Scentbird delved into the...
Can Nordstrom’s New Manhattan Superstore Convince Beauty Consumers To Reconsider Department Store Shopping?
Counter culture is changing. Nordstrom is the latest department store retailer buffing up its beauty floor in an effort to stave off losing customers to e-commerce players and specialty retailers Ulta Beauty and Sephora. In fact, beauty...
