Rachel Brown
With Everything Under $10, Glossmetics Wants To Be The Go-To Brand For Price-Conscious Gen Z Shoppers
Brand incubator Gloss Ventures is making moves on several fronts. Its new brand Glossmetics, which sells skincare and tools for under $10, landed at Walmart Canada in January, where it’s already increased...
Walmart Adds Curie To Its Growing Indie Brand Roster
Curie is riding a wave of exposure into Walmart, where it’s hitting 4,300 stores with seven stockkeeping units in the megachain’s natural personal care selection. The mass-market retail rollout comes over a year since the brand pitched...
Does Amyris’s Bankruptcy Raise Red Flags About Beauty’s Love Affair With Biotechnology?
In June, Debut revealed it had closed a $34 million series B round led by L’Oréal’s venture capital arm, giving the beauty conglomerate an inside track on perhaps thousands of beauty and personal care ingredients...
Aerosoles Owner American Exchange Group Acquires HatchCollective To Enter The Beauty Category
American Exchange Group, owner of footwear brands White Mountain and Aerosoles, has broken into the beauty category by acquiring brand incubator HatchCollective. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. New York-based American Exchange Group takes over
Act+Acre Spotlights Scalp Care At Sephora
Act+Acre’s decision to zero in on scalp care put it on a path to enter Sephora, where it officially premieres online today and is rolling out to 235 doors on Friday. The beauty specialty retailer is showcasing...
When Will Early-Stage Funding For Beauty And Wellness Brands Turn Around?
If you’re an early-stage brand looking for institutional funding now, you’re late to beauty’s venture capital party. These days, as Joanna Glasner, a columnist for Crunchbase, put it, “Beauty is a pretty unattractive area for...
Jaclyn Cosmetics’ Future Is Uncertain As Jaclyn Hill Closes Other Brands
Jaclyn Hill, the beauty influencer who helped make now-defunct Becca Cosmetics’ Champagne Pop highlighter pop, hasn’t been able to do the same for her own products. She’s closing Koze, an apparel and accessories brand she launched last...
