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How To Crack The Assortment At Fast-Growing Facial Bars
As brands look to sell products beyond their websites and retailers, many of which are pulling back from newness in pursuit of profit, they’re clamoring to get into the fast-growing facial bar sector. The...
How Cautious Beauty Investors Are Evaluating Brands Today
Beauty M&A is expected to increase this year, but that doesn’t mean investors and strategic buyers will become less choosy with their targets, according to dealmakers involved in the industry. “Desirable brands...
Where Beauty Brand Founders Think DEI Initiatives Stand Today In The Wake Of The Lawsuit Against Fearless Fund
Fearless Fund, the Black women-owned venture capital firm backing early-stage businesses owned by women of...
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...
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...
From Different Packaging For Different Distribution To Low-pH Products, Trends Behind-The-Scenes Beauty Companies See Bubbling Up
Many beauty brands are trying to incorporate sustainability measures, but the production processes and packaging responsible for making and encasing their products don’t necessarily support their sustainability ambitions. The good news, according to beauty suppliers, is...
