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Valuations Slide As The Pace Of Beauty M&A Slows, But Prestige Beauty Shows Resilience
Beauty brand valuations are tumbling from last year’s peak as investors turn a sharper eye to businesses that can effectively navigate economic challenges. To Nini Zhang, managing director of investment banking at Bank...
Indie Beauty Brands Share Their Big (And Small) Business Goals For 2023
Since the start of the pandemic, uncertainty has been a business constant. Heading into next year, with the economy and the state of indie beauty rocky, the uncertainty is by no means fading. Amid it, indie beauty...
Is Biotechnology The Answer To Beauty’s Sustainability Problem?
When the clean beauty movement began to gain traction in the 2010s, it would’ve been unimaginable for brands in it to tout anything engineered in a lab. “Chemicals” were the clean beauty bogeyman, and most clean beauty brands...
With Birchbox On The Brink Of Possible Bankruptcy, Are Brands Rethinking Subscription Box Strategies?
At ages 29 and 28, respectively, Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna came up with the idea for Birchbox during their last semester at Harvard Business School and launched it in September 2010. By 2019, the updated take...
“Prove That You’ve Won Somewhere”: The Bridge Mentorship Program Is Guiding Brands To Score Funds In A Shaky Market
In today’s uncertain market, investors are looking for brands that remove some of the uncertainty. “The most important thing when you’re talking to investors, especially when you’re a small brand, is to prove that...
Despite Challenges, Brand Founders Are Largely Optimistic About What 2023 Holds For Beauty And Their Businesses
As we were strolling the floor at Adit Live, the trade show held two weeks ago by Beauty Independent parent company Indie Beauty Media Group at The Reef’s Magic Box that gathered together about 60 brands,...
