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How Glow Recipe Became Sephora’s No. 1 Indie Brand
What does it take to be the No. 1 indie brand at Sephora globally? For Glow Recipe, which is also in the top five brands overall at the beauty specialty chain, seven years of an exclusive...
Fresh Off Wander Beauty Exit, Serial Entrepreneur Divya Gugnani Talks Fundraising And Growing Fragrance Brand 5 Sens
Serial entrepreneur and investor Divya Gugnani has sold Wander Beauty, the brand of convenient beauty essentials she started with model Lindsay Ellingson in 2015, to holding company NamelessCPG, where it joins a portfolio with Everly, Wile,...
CEO Sandy Saputo’s $100M Vision For True Botanicals
When a recruiter contacted Sandy Saputo, then CMO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned brand incubator Kendo, in 2019 about the CEO position at “cleanical” skincare brand True Botanicals, she wasn’t looking to change jobs. Still, she...
Post-Acquisition, RéVive Charts Expansion In China As The Country’s Beauty Sales Cool
Following its sale to Chinese beauty conglomerate S’Young Group from Tengram Capital Partners in October last year, RéVive is gearing up for significant growth this year by magnifying its presence in China through livestreaming...
Breakthru Beauty’s Allison Slater Ray And Lisa Motzko Hamilton On Why Chasing Trends And Virality Can Hurt Brands
Combined, Allison Slater Ray and Lisa Motzko Hamilton, co-founders of new consultancy Breakthru Beauty, have been in the beauty and retail industries for more than 50 years. They met through IT Cosmetics when Slater Ray was SVP...
Courtney Adeleye On Selling The Mane Choice And Launching New Brand Watch & Sea At Target
When Courtney Adeleye sold her brand The Mane Choice, which reached $100 million in sales and 60,000 retail doors in six years, to MAV Beauty Brands in 2019 for $61.5 million, she was in her late 30s,...
