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Brand Founders Get Real About Bootstrapping In An Uncertain And Crowded Beauty Market
Murphy Bishop, co-founder of The Better Skin Co., believes it’s incredibly tough to be a bootstrapped beauty brand today. Not only are bootstrapped brands competing against well-funded players, they’re trying to navigate a beauty industry...
Is The Beauty Industry Suffering From A Product Quality Crisis?
Lorne Lucree, chief innovation officer at contract manufacturer Voyant Beauty and head of its business unit Atelier by Voyant Beauty, believes the beauty industry is suffering from a product quality crisis. He points to mold,...
The Buying Strategies And Trends Steering Beauty Assortments At Erewhon, Shen Beauty And Moda Operandi
Consumers with considerable discretionary income continue to spend handsomely on beauty products, leading last year to growth in the prestige beauty segment outpacing growth in the mass-market segment, according to research firm Circana. To keep...
In The Post-iOS 14 Update Era, What Acquisition Strategies Work For Brands Just Getting Off The Ground?
Last year, Cristina Bagozzi, formerly VP and head of the owned brand business at clean beauty retailer Follain, launched fragrance brand Emmotiv with $25,000 from her personal savings. In its first couple of months, outreach to her...
What Should Emerging Brands Draw From L’Oréal’s $2.5B Deal For Aesop?
The big news in the beauty industry this week didn’t happen in New York. Instead, it was the announcement that French beauty conglomerate L’Oréal has agreed to buy Australian-born Aesop from Brazilian company Natura & Co for...
Chemistry Professor Leyte Winfield Gives Us The Inside Scoop On Spelman College’s Cosmetic Science Certification
As part of its online education platform eSpelman, Atlanta’s Spelman College, the leading historically Black college for women, has introduced a cosmetic science certification program conceptualized by chemistry and biochemistry professor Leyte Winfield. In a video about the program,...
