Rachel Brown
Beauty Manufacturing: The Trends That Will Reign And Be Dethroned In 2025
As we kick off 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s potential tariff, health and immigration policies are heightening uncertainty in the beauty manufacturing sector. Sorting through how things could shake out, for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing...
The Biggest Makeup Trends Rising—And Falling—In 2025
Popular in 2023, lip tints and treatments didn’t remove their makeup category crown in 2024, a year that saw blushes, some in squat sticks and others in swirly compacts, also bombard the market. As we look...
Private Equity-Owned John Masters Organics Shutters US And Canada Operations
John Masters Organics, a staple of clean haircare selections at chains such as Whole Foods and Natural Grocers, is closing its operations in the United States and Canada. The brand, which celebrated its...
Outgoing Ilia CEO Lynda Berkowitz On Successfully Working With Brand Founders
After more than 30 years in the beauty industry, including eight at Ilia, Lynda Berkowitz handed over the CEO reins at the clean beauty brand last Friday to Paul Schiraldi, former CEO of Murad, and...
Here’s How Emerging Beauty Brands Are Trying To Squeeze Dollars From Tight-Fisted Investors
Although the number of beauty industry deals is creeping up—investment bank Capstone Partners estimates they increased nearly 33% from last year to 57 year-to-date as of last month—the well for early-stage beauty brand funding remains pretty dry....
Eyva, An AI-Driven Platform Streamlining Beauty Industry Data, Raises Almost $2.9M In Seed Funding
Eyva, a SaaS artificial intelligence-powered platform breaking down beauty industry silos by streamlining data across product development, supply chain, marketing and more, has raised nearly $2.9 million in seed funding to grow its reach.
