Rachel Brown
Walmart Moves To Integrate Haircare By Assorting According To Hair Type
Walmart is moving to arrange its haircare merchandise by hair type and phase out multicultural haircare sections long criticized as limiting the consumer reach and sales of products placed within them sold primarily to Black...
Proven Group Appoints New President, Looks To Expand Distribution
Marc Chapman, former COO of Symphony Commerce and Minted, has become president of Proven Group, where he’s working to optimize the Proven and Noteworthy Scents owner’s e-commerce business and expand it beyond e-commerce.
Bootstrapped Brand ESW Beauty Gets More Accessible With Mass Retail Expansion And Price Reductions
ESW Beauty is improving accessibility on two fronts: location and price. In advance of the holiday shopping season, which sees its sheet masks being snapped up for stocking stuffers, the brand is expanding...
CosMedix And Osmosis Co-Founder Launches Synthetic Ingredient-Free Skincare Brand Kleos+Klea
In 1997, Tammy Demos and her then husband Ben Johnson founded among the earliest med-spa chains in the United States, which broadened the reach of aesthetics services by offering them outside of dermatologists’ and plastic surgeons’...
How Settle Is Building The Back End Of Shopify Brands
E-commerce sales in the United States are expected to grow less than 10% in 2024, but Settle, a working capital lender and cash-flow management platform for e-commerce businesses, has been growing at roughly a...
As Fintech Recalibrates, Brands Share Their Experiences With CPG Lenders Born In DTC Boom Times
Earlier this year, reports circulated that Ampla, a lender to consumer brands, was struggling financially and looking to sell. Ampla’s struggles succeeded CircleUp ending its consumer brand lending practice and being acquired by financial data and...
Longtime Beauty Exec Evelyn Wang Launches Silverist To Care For Gray Hair
Even for someone adept at identifying holes in the beauty market, a personal experience can really hammer home the depth of a hole. That was the case for Evelyn Wang, former CMO at Milani Cosmetics, SVP...
