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All The Ways Emerging Beauty Brands Fund Their Businesses
Among direct-to-consumer brands, there’s a lot of talk of technology stacks or all the different tools used to run e-commerce and digital consumer interactions, but financial stacks or all the different mechanisms brands depend on to fund their...
Citruslabs And Sula Labs Partner To Close The Inclusivity Gap In Clinical Studies
Citruslabs and Sula Labs have joined forces to put representation front and center in clinical studies as they’re becoming table stakes for beauty brands. Historically, clinical studies of all sorts have excluded people of color,...
Cosmetica Teams Up With Celebrity Makeup Artist Katie Jane Hughes To Showcase Its Innovations
As beauty contract manufacturers increasingly step out of the shadows, Cosmetica Laboratories Inc. has partnered with celebrity makeup artist and content creator Katie Jane Hughes to spotlight trend-forward products it can produce for brands....
What’s With All The Secrecy About The Relationship Between Beauty Manufacturers And Brands?
Traditionally in the beauty industry, brands have kept their contract manufacturers under wraps and vice versa, and the main tool to enforce secrecy has been a non-disclosure agreement. There are reasons to believe that greater candidness...
Salt & Stone Wants To Be Sephora’s Deodorant Leader
Salt & Stone is poised to shake up the deodorant category at Sephora. The brand is launching online at the beauty specialty retailer today in Canada and the United States, where it’s entering...
Is Prestige Beauty Hitting Its Peak? Beauty Industry Insiders Don’t Think So.
In a recent Business of Fashion article, beauty correspondent Daniela Morosini wrote, “In beauty, prestige may be at its peak,” and highlighted challenges facing the sector such as crowding, the quality of masstige and mass...
Nakery COO And Former Becca CEO Robert DeBaker On The Overriding Importance Of Listening To Consumers
Over 30 years in the beauty industry, Robert DeBaker has forged a career straddling the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds. He spent five years each at Chanel and The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., ending as VP of Bobbi Brown...
