Expert Dialogue
What It Really Means To Be A Profitable Beauty Brand
If beauty entrepreneurs are to be believed, virtually no one is building a brand to exit. Still, that doesn’t indicate they wouldn’t consider a lucrative deal should it be on the table, right? To situate themselves...
The Opposite Of Overnight Success: How U Beauty, Nécessaire And Shani Darden Skin Care Are Carefully Becoming Powerhouses
After an age in which the consumer packaged goods industry applauded unicorns (many as mystical as the creature they were named for), the new age is starting to celebrate the brand equivalent of the quahog clam. The
What Beauty M&A Looks Like Now That The Era Of Rapidly Growing DTC Brands Is Largely Over
In the 2010s and the outset of the 2020s, the beauty industry saw several brands scale quickly and sell at strong multiples. A prime example is Drunk Elephant, which Shiseido purchased for $845 million, a valuation...
Experts Believe AI Will Fundamentally Change The Beauty Industry In A Few Years
Despite warnings from artificial intelligence leaders at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other emerging platforms about the threats of AI wresting control of the world from humans, not to mention annihilating jobs, the technology doesn’t...
What Constitutes A High-Value Asset In Today’s Beauty Industry?
While mergers and acquisitions activity in the beauty industry is down, Andrew Ross, senior advisor and venture partner at XRC Ventures and former EVP of strategy, new business development and integration at Estée Lauder, argues, “It’s never...
Great Brand Stories, Focused Distribution And Sharp COGS: Bridge Mentorship Participants On The Program’s Top Takeaways
In a noisy beauty market, a great backstory is essential for a nascent brand to rise above the din. “The brand really matters, but the founder also really matters,” says Cristina Nuñez,...
