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Olive Young Has Landed. Now The Battle For K-Beauty Retail Gets Real.
American beauty shoppers have spoken: They want K-Beauty. The question that isn’t settled is where they want to buy it. CJ Group-owned Olive Young, South Korea’s dominant beauty retailer with 1,380 stores and $4.2 billion in sales,...
Are Peptides Poised To Go From Gray Market To Gold Rush?
After dealing with breast implant illness, Los Angeles health and fitness coach and founder of supplement brand Micropause Emily Wagner was recommended peptides BPC-157 and GHK-Cu to aid tissue repair. She added in Retratrutide to help her...
The Math Behind Beauty Brands’ TikTok Shop Profitability Challenge
For beauty brands chasing growth on TikTok Shop, the algorithm isn’t the main challenge. The economics are. Beauty sales on TikTok Shop jumped 96% in the first quarter to nearly $1 billion, according to data intelligence platform
How Amazon Is Conquering Beauty
A month before Poom Cosmetics launched in 2025 and before it even had inventory on hand, founder Irene Ham heard from an Amazon emerging brands specialist who had spotted traction around the makeup brand’s early...
The Brutal Economics Of Beauty Specialty Retail
For many emerging beauty brands, landing on the shelves of Sephora or Ulta Beauty is the ultimate validation, but achieving profitability is becoming more elusive as retail costs continue to climb. Brands are being forced to think...
