The Purpose-Driven, Channel-Agnostic, Experience-Centric Future Of Retail
The onset of the pandemic accelerated many movements such as a shift toward digital, sustainability and touch-free operations that had begun to shape the retail industry before it, and they’ve largely been sticky in the two years since....
“Actively Looking For Acquisitions”: Clio CEO Jamie Leventhal Talks Strategy Post-Yellow Wood Partners Acquisition
It was revealed Thursday that consumer packaged goods-focused private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners, owner of Dr. Scholl’s and Freeman Beauty, has acquired several brands from personal care, beauty and sexual wellness device and accessory...
Forget Beauty. These Days, Skincare Is All About Health. But What Exactly Is Skin Health?
In the beauty industry, beauty is almost passé. Instead, particularly in the skincare segment, health is the big idea. In a major statement to that effect, the Australian beauty retailer Mecca last month introduced a Skin Health...
Beacon Award Winner Stimunail’s Device Uses Red Light, Heat And Vibration To Strengthen Nails
Stimunail founder Stacey Steinmetz was a senior marketing and retail manager at L’Oréal at a time in the mid-2010s that the company was riding the beauty device wave as the owner of now-defunct Clarisonic. “I saw that...
Indie Beauty Snapshot: 13 Trends Rising In The First Quarter Of 2022
As we cross the second anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that COVID-19 is a global pandemic and lockdowns occurring in the United States, it seems like we should be celebrating human persistence and ingenuity, right? But...
