How Emerging Beauty Brands Can Mitigate Payment Risks At Retail

Retail is a risky business for emerging beauty brands, but when retailers stretch payment terms or fail to pay bills entirely, it can deal a serious blow to brands’ long-term financial well-being. Past due...

Toyin Odulate Merges Her African Heritage And L’Oréal Learnings To Launch Haircare Brand Olori

Toyin Odulate has lived in a lot of places. Born in Washington, DC., she moved back to Lagos, Nigeria, where her parents were from and her extended family lived, when she was six years old. She returned...

How Beacon Award Winner Sisterwould Hit Six Figures With A Minimal Marketing Budget

When sister-in-laws Rina Gocaj-Bekiri and Floriye Elmazi couldn’t find hair products that catered to pressing condition-based concerns, such as dandruff, psoriasis, alopecia, hair loss and the effects of chemotherapy on hair, they decided to combine their passions for...

Indu Raises Over $5M In Seed Funding From Unilever Ventures, V3 Ventures And More

Indu is growing up. The British brand aimed at teens and started by the co-founders of Feelunique has moved to the next developmental phase of fundraising by securing $5.1 million in a seed...

Sephora Accelerate Brand Of Other Worlds Launches Online With Urban Outfitters

 Aes  Aes When thinking about the first retail partner for Of Other Worlds, founder Simedar Jackson wanted one that aligned with the brand’s ethos (“young and kind of edgy,” she says) and...