Post-Acquisition RMS Beauty Has Billion-Dollar Ambitions
A lot has changed for RMS Beauty since Beauty Independent’s Full Disclosure on founder Rose-Marie Swift in January 2019. Last August, investment firm Highlander Partners acquired the clean beauty brand, and Highlander managing director David...
ShearShare Co-Founders Courtney And Tye Caldwell Are Showing Up For Their Buffalo Community After The Racist Mass Shooting
At the end of last year, Courtney and Tye Caldwell, the husband-and-wife duo behind ShearShare, an app enabling beauty professionals to rent booths at salons, spas and barbershops affectionately nicknamed “HairBnB,” moved from McKinney, Texas to...
Diving Into The Off-Price Beauty Business With David Klar, CEO Of Klar&Co. And Co-Founder Of Yes To
One business segment’s lemons are often another’s lemonade. That’s certainly true in the retail industry. While high inflation and broader economic uncertainty aren’t welcome signs to most in the sector, off-price retailers are pretty sanguine about them. In...
With The Stock Market And VC Down This Year, What’s The Deal Environment Like For Emerging Beauty And Wellness Brands?
When beauty and wellness companies examine economic indictors, they can easily see many of them don’t look all that beautiful or well. For the stock market, 2022 has been a punishing year—and prognosticators don’t forecast its fortunes...
The Honey Pot Company’s Reformulation Of Intimate Washes Sparks A Social Media Backlash
An unannounced formulation change has led to a sticky situation for The Honey Pot Company. Upset to discover the brand inserted preservatives into its range of foaming intimate area washes, customers took...
