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Longtime Investment Banker Andrew Shore On What Investors Want From Emerging Brands And The State Of Beauty M&A
After 41 years on Wall Street, including 37 years orchestrating beauty and personal care deals, Andrew Shore has retired from investment banking. For the last 15 years, he’s been managing director at Moelis & Co., where he...
How Indie Beauty Brand Entrepreneurs And Executives Seek To Foster Nontoxic Workplaces
Tales of work environments in the beauty industry show that it can be ugly to be on the inside of it, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Emerging indie beauty brands often led by female...
State Of Change Is Completely Transparent About Its Perfume Ingredients—And Wants The Fragrance Industry To Be, Too
When Ashlee Posner, a longtime fragrance entrepreneur who started customization concepts Aromachology and The Perfume & Cologne Bar, asked the fragrance house she was using for safety information on the perfume ingredients in her products, she was...
Nopalera Opens LA Pop-Up, Launches Personal Care Products That Can Live In Hotels And Restaurants
Not coincidently timed with Hispanic Heritage Month, Nopalera is kicking off two initiatives that could have long-term ramifications for the Latina-owned bath and body care brand: a pop-up store in Los Angeles and its first products not...
Has Any Retailer Replaced Barneys New York As The Go-To Beauty Brand Builder?
In a Wall Street Journal article that ran earlier this month, reporter Chavie Lieber wrote, “Barneys New York was always more than a department store. With a flagship on Madison Avenue and a dozen more locations across...
How Indie Beauty Brands Predict They’ll Do This Holiday Season
Earlier this month, we prodded beauty analysts and investors for holiday sales forecasts. They expressed optimism laced with concern about the state of the economy and the appetite for spending. “The season may be healthy, but not...
True Beauty Ventures And View From 32 On Why Brands Have To Be Much More Than Retail Ready To Enter Chains Today
While their domains are undoubtedly distinct, beauty retailers and beauty investors are becoming much more alike. “We’re making bets on which brands might be successful scaling,” says Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner of True Beauty Ventures,...
