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...

Switch2Pure Is A Clean Beauty Retailer And Brand—And It’s Growing On Both Fronts

Estela Cockrell is in a rare position in the indie beauty world. Her company, Switch2Pure, juggles being a retailer and a brand—and both portions are growing. Following the e-commerce platform’s physical premiere about a year ago...

Curls Founder Mahisha Dellinger Enters The Blazing CBD Category

Mahisha Dellinger is at it again. Seventeen years ago, she parlayed disappointment in what was available on the market for natural hairstyles into the haircare line Curls. Developed with $30,000 of her savings, the line is now estimated...