Jane Carlson

The near-term outlook for the beauty industry is bright.  Consumer research from management consultancy McKinsey & Co. shows American consumers are generally optimistic about the country returning to normalcy after more than a...

If you’re a founder starting a brand with a fandom that hangs on your every word, you’re in luck. It’s invaluable for business. However, that sort of preoccupation is unusual. For most brands, gaining loyalty doesn’t happen overnight...

Direct-to-consumer distribution has been a go-to strategy for cash-strapped startups because of its low barriers to entry, but retail still has major benefits for business.   Even as some brick-and-mortar concepts, particularly department...

After the pandemic took hold in the United States in the spring of last year and the economy plunged into one of the biggest collapses in history, prestige beauty sales tanked, especially in color cosmetics. Still,...

In the wake of big beauty transactions such as Puig’s reported $1 billion acquisition of Charlotte Tilbury and Shiseido’s $845 million pickup of Drunk Elephant, speculation is rampant in the industry about the brands that might...

There are more active Amazon users than people living in Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world with some 273 million inhabitants. The sheer reach of the e-tail giant, which continues to mount, presents an