Longtime Investment Banker Andrew Shore On What Investors Want From Emerging Brands And The State Of Beauty M&A

After 41 years on Wall Street, including 37 years orchestrating beauty and personal care deals, Andrew Shore has retired from investment banking. For the last 15 years, he’s been managing director at Moelis & Co., where he...

True Beauty Ventures And View From 32 On Why Brands Have To Be Much More Than Retail Ready To Enter Chains Today

While their domains are undoubtedly distinct, beauty retailers and beauty investors are becoming much more alike. “We’re making bets on which brands might be successful scaling,” says Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner of True Beauty Ventures,...

Top Knot Ventures’ Manica Blain On Why Individual Investors Are Particularly Important For Early-Stage Brands Today

After pitching 20 venture capital firms and receiving a term sheet from one, Indu, a forthcoming teenage beauty brand from Feelunique co-founders Aaron Chatterley and Richard Schiessel, ended up securing $4.8 million in funding from...

Bansk Group’s Bart Becht Makes The Business Case For ESG In CPG

Bart Becht has been in the consumer packaged goods space since 1982, a year that saw Diet Coke and Drakkar Noir hit the market. After he surprised the CPG world by ending his 17-year tenure as...

E.l.f. Beauty Acquires Naturium To Grow Skincare Market Share

Already a makeup juggernaut, E.l.f. Beauty is angling for the same status in skincare by acquiring Naturium for $355 million. The company’s deal for the brand, which consists of a combination of cash...

Private-Label Platform Blanka Raises $2M To Ease Brands’ Ability To Bring Products To Market

In 2020, Kaylee Astle launched a short-lived sunscreen brand called Goodnight Moon, which gave her a window into the struggles of nascent beauty brands that most consumers, let alone entrepreneurs prior to their entrance into beauty,...