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Iris Finance’s Drew Fallon On Why The Gap Between Brand Haves And Have-Nots Is Growing
Drew Fallon, CEO and co-founder of Iris Finance, an AI-powered finance data platform for consumer packaged goods brands, believes the worst of the direct-to-consumer reckoning is over. That doesn’t mean he believes the path to...
CORE Industrial Partners Acquires Majority Stake In Playful Makeup Brand Winky Lux
CORE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm backing behind-the-scenes industry technology, manufacturing and services, is getting a pop of conspicuous girliness. It’s acquired a majority stake in the maximalist makeup brand Winky Lux for an undisclosed...
Boys Are Perfuming Their Bodies And Perming Their Hair. Could They Catapult Men’s Grooming Sales?
Whether it’s smellmaxxing with pricy perfumes from Tom Ford, Maison Margiela, Creed and Jean Paul Gaultier or shaping their hair into broccoli perms, teenage boys have entered the beauty chat. The investment bank Piper Sandler estimates their...
New Owner American Exchange Group’s Plans For Indie Lee’s Future
In 2008, a then 37-year-old Indie Lee endured multiple health crises. Born Lisa Swengros and called Indie Lee, short for “Independent Lisa,” a blog she wrote, Lee was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis after her feet and...
How Experts Think Emerging Beauty Brands Should Build Teams In A Profit-Focused Market
Ambitious emerging beauty brands are facing cross-pressures when it comes to building their teams. On the one hand, as we explored in a No Stupid Questions story earlier this month, they’re being advised to bring in C-Suite...
CAA Brand Incubator Creative Beauty And Pley Beauty’s Collapse Leaves Contractors Unpaid
When CAA formed beauty brand incubator Creative Beauty in late 2019 and over two years later launched Pley Beauty, a makeup brand connected to actress Peyton List, contractors, from makeup artists to photographers, gladly signed on to...
Tattoo Care Brand Stories & Ink Secures $1.6M With The Aim Of Doubling Sales In 18 Months
Stories & Ink has raised $1.6 million in funding to support its next phase of growth. The funding is from a mix of new and existing investors, including The Emerson Group, a retail distributor with Crown...
