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Starface Founders’ Sustainable Personal Care Brand Plus Shuts Down
Plus, the eco-minded personal care brand from the founders of Starface selling dissolvable body wash packets, has dissolved. Investors were informed of the closure in July last year after it was clear...
Beauty Insiders Offer Brand Renovation Tips For Gregg Renfrew’s Beautycounter Rebuild
Gregg Renfrew, who launched Beautycounter in 2013, has bought the clean beauty direct seller out of foreclosure and plans to create a new entity with its name and assets. The Carlyle Group, the private equity firm that...
Consumers Think Beauty Products Are Too Expensive. Are They Right?
Beauty consumers lament that beauty products are too expensive despite the consumer price index for cosmetics rising slower than the overall consumer price index in the United States. The cosmetics CPI...
How Pharmacopia Found A Lifeline In Hotel Amenities
A brand doesn’t stay in business for a quarter century without having some twists and turns—and Pharmacopia has certainly had its fair share. Created in 1998 by graphic designer Lisa Levin, former creative director at L2...
Shhhowercap Looks Beyond Its Stylish Signature Shower Caps
To win in the current noisy market, consumer packaged goods founders are often instructed to drill down into a niche and leverage the authority they command in that niche to extend to areas related to it....
Monogram Capital Partners’ Oliver Nordlinger Believes Predictions Of A Beauty Slowdown Are Overblown
Monogram Capital Partners is one of the most active private equity firms in the beauty industry—and it doesn’t expect to shed that position anytime soon. Out of its portfolio of more than 25 companies spanning food...
