Following The Acquisitions Of Medik8 And Wild, These British Brands Could Be Next

With British companies like Wild, Space NK, Medik8 and Byoma being snapped up, mergers and acquisitions in the beauty industry are looking increasingly English, and there are many brimming brands in the United...

Plantmade Changes Ownership After The British Haircare Brand Racks Up Over $2M In Debt

Crown Holdings, a company attached to investor and entrepreneur Toni Fola-Alade, has acquired Plantmade for under $40,000 after the British haircare brand fell into administration in June grappling with roughly $2.3 million in debt. According to...

“No More Shortcuts”: Stride Consumer Partners On Beauty M&A After Performance Marketing’s Peak

While some industry insiders consider the market for beauty deals closed, Stride Consumer Partners partner Steven Berg contends standout brands still stand a chance.  “I don’t think the market’s ever closed for a...

From C-Suite To VC: Can Beauty’s Star Executives Succeed As Investors?

The beauty executive-to-investor pipeline is bursting. A week ago, Jane Lauder, the former president of Clinique who spent three decades at Estée Lauder, the company founded by her grandmother, announced she’s starting

La Roche-Posay Is Making The Biggest Media Impact As Science-Backed Brands Build Buzz

Science-backed beauty brands, including La Roche-Posay and CeraVe, have generated the fastest growing media impact value (MIV) in beauty this year, according to a new report by software and data insights firm Launchmetrics