New World Natural Brands Enters The Growing Men’s Market With The Acquisition Of 18.21 Man Made

New World Natural Brands has gone top shelf for its latest acquisition. Established last year, the burgeoning beauty holding company has added 18.21 Man Made, the grooming brand inspired by the Prohibition that puts its bestselling...

The Products That Impressed Retail Buyers At IBE London 2019

The No. 1 reason brands exhibit at trade shows is to meet retail buyers, and the 80-plus brands on the floor at the second Indie Beauty Expo London were not disappointed. More than 300 buyers...

40 Over 40: Indie Beauty Brand Founders Breaking Age Barriers (Pt 2 of 4)

Like the society that spawned it, the beauty industry has a complicated relationship with age. It’s perennially fighting it while grappling with shifting cultural views and nodding toward inclusivity. The simple truth, of course, is everyone ages. If...

What’s In A Brand Name? Indie Beauty Entrepreneurs Discuss Changing Theirs

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 founders and executives: Why did you decide to change your brand name?

Knowhere’s Chatbots Have Beauty On Their Artificial Brains

Anybody can put up a website these days, but not anybody can make it deftly interact with customers. Chatbots offer the promise of advancing small businesses’ abilities to provide top-notch customer service. In 2016, Frederik Schröder co-founded Knowhere...