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After Achieving Two Significant Beauty Brand Exits, Can Tula And Bobbi Brown Co-Founder Ken Landis Land A Third With DIBS Beauty?
Ken Landis could pull a beauty brand exit hat trick. He co-founded Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, which sold to Estée Lauder in 1995, and Tula Skincare, which sold to Procter & Gamble in 2022. Now, he’s on...
How LGBTQIA+ Beauty Brand Founders Are Feeling This Pride Month
This Pride Month, the movement for LGBTQIA+ rights has much to celebrate. In the United States, support for gay marriage stands at 71%, an all-time high according to analytics firm Gallup. Abroad, countries such as Slovenia, Taiwan,...
Capri Blue And Thymes Parent Company Curio Acquires Blazing Candle Brand Otherland
Otherland is venturing to another business land. The sizzling candle brand has been acquired by Curio, parent company of Thymes and Capri Blue, for an undisclosed amount. Otherland’s tight distribution and product range gives Curio an...
What Constitutes A High-Value Asset In Today’s Beauty Industry?
While mergers and acquisitions activity in the beauty industry is down, Andrew Ross, senior advisor and venture partner at XRC Ventures and former EVP of strategy, new business development and integration at Estée Lauder, argues, “It’s never...
To Sell Her Brand, Aila Founder Katie Moloney Stepped Far Outside Her Comfort Zone
Late last year, Katie Moloney, founder of natural pre-workout supplement brand Aila and a former trainer who’d held sales and marketing roles in sports media, made a decision she initially had trouble admitting to herself, let alone...
After Raising $4M In Seed Funding, Aging Hair DTC Brand Arey Arrives At Credo
When consumers the world over know how to pronounce Arey (it sounds like “array” and comes from the French word “arrê,” meaning “to stop”), co-founder and CEO Allison Conrad believes the brand specializing in slowing...
