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Pacifica Beauty Executes Rebrand And CEO Change As Founder Brook Harvey-Taylor Transitions To Creative Role
Brook Harvey-Taylor has left her position as CEO of Pacifica Beauty, and Eric Reiter, partner at Brentwood Associates, the private equity firm that invested in the brand in 2022, is occupying the role on an interim...
VC-Backed Par Olive Wants To Be The Medik8 Of Ingestible Beauty
Last September, when Vogue broadcast that Par Olive was behind the marine collagen supplement Victoria Beckham swears by, the brand was wiped clean of six months’ worth of product within a week. The sellout was a...
Windsong Global Acquires KVD Beauty From Kendo For Multi-Brand Platform Play
KVD Beauty, the brand originally called Kat Von D Beauty when its namesake tattoo artist partnered with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned incubator Kendo to launch goth makeup in 2008, has been acquired by
Wonderskin Fast-Tracks To Sephora Shelves As Retailer Launches “Hot On Social” Endcaps
Wonderskin, the London-based brand known for its peel-off lip stain that’s drawn more than 200 million views on TikTok and sold over 4 million units, is launching at Sephora as the beauty specialty chain is greasing the...
Betting On A Return To Full Glam, Unilever Ventures And True Beauty Ventures Back Hung Vanngo Beauty
Unilever Ventures and True Beauty Ventures have invested in Hung Vanngo Beauty, the new brand from the makeup artist who’s created looks for Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lawrence,...
Iris Finance Raises $6.2M In Seed Funding To Become CPG Brands’ AI-Powered CFO
Iris Finance, the artificial intelligence-driven profit-planning platform, has raised $6.2 million in seed funding to intensify its technological firepower for consumer packaged goods brands. Glasswing Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm focused...
Sincerely Yours CEO Julia Straus Answers Your Burning Questions, From Funding To The Right Age To Start Skincare
Celebrity and influencer brands are icebergs in the consumer packaged goods ocean, where the famous names are the glaringly exposed tips, but there’s foundational management infrastructure underneath that rarely rises to the surface yet is critical for avoiding...
