Rachel Brown
Consumers Think Beauty Products Are Too Expensive. Are They Right?
Beauty consumers lament that beauty products are too expensive despite the consumer price index for cosmetics rising slower than the overall consumer price index in the United States. The cosmetics CPI...
How Pharmacopia Found A Lifeline In Hotel Amenities
A brand doesn’t stay in business for a quarter century without having some twists and turns—and Pharmacopia has certainly had its fair share. Created in 1998 by graphic designer Lisa Levin, former creative director at L2...
Shhhowercap Looks Beyond Its Stylish Signature Shower Caps
To win in the current noisy market, consumer packaged goods founders are often instructed to drill down into a niche and leverage the authority they command in that niche to extend to areas related to it....
Monogram Capital Partners’ Oliver Nordlinger Believes Predictions Of A Beauty Slowdown Are Overblown
Monogram Capital Partners is one of the most active private equity firms in the beauty industry—and it doesn’t expect to shed that position anytime soon. Out of its portfolio of more than 25 companies spanning food...
Private Equity Firm West Lane Capital Partners Acquires Mented Cosmetics
West Lane Capital Partners is diving deeper into beauty by acquiring Mented Cosmetics. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. It marks West Lane’s second beauty transaction this year. Earlier this month, the...
Color Camp Founder Lauren Polino Says Consumers Aren’t Willing To Pay For Better Nail Salons
On Monday last week, The Nail Tech Org staged a campaign in which thousands of nail technicians across the United Kingdom raised their nail service prices to demand higher wages. The British nail service education...
Has Sustainability Become Table Stakes For Beauty Brands?
Ten to 15 years ago, a new wave of brands such as Josh Rosebrook, Indie Lee, Odacité, Tara Harper, RMS Beauty and W3ll People put clean beauty...
