Verb (Re)Enters Ulta Beauty Ready For Action

Riding powerful tailwinds from a 91% year-over-year sales gain to date in 2021, Verb Hair Care is ready to enter Ulta Beauty. The 10-year-old brand went live on Ulta’s website early in May along with endcaps in...

This New Brand Wants To Do For Teens What The Honest Co. Has Done For Babies

Welbe started as many entrepreneurial pursuits do in beauty: Founder Steph Weibring was searching for products and couldn’t find them. Specifically, she was hunting for clean skincare products for her then 10-year-old daughter and the lack of...

Meet Jill, The Viral DTC Brand Leading The Great Female Face-Shaving Awakening

From masturbation to menopause, the beauty industry is taking down one taboo after another. The latest previously unmentioned regular phenomenon that’s being brought into the light is female face shaving, a practice Meagan Carboney, co-founder and chief brand...

What John Burry Learned About The Challenges Of Brand Incubators From Running Brandable

In the consumer packaged goods industry, a confluence of factors, including an influx of venture capital, low barriers to entry in direct-to-consumer distribution, shifting generational product preferences and retailers hungry for younger consumers, has sparked a boom in...

Prestige Department Store Bloomingdale’s Launches Sexual Wellness Assortment Online

Bloomingdale’s is the latest national retailer to get serious about sex. The department store, a division of Macy’s Inc., has launched a sexual wellness category on its website featuring...