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With Saks Regrouping, Nordstrom Presses Its Advantage In Beauty
With greater flexibility following its go-private transaction, Nordstrom is charting a course to win over displaced luxury shoppers and capture market share in the wake of Saks’ bankruptcy, using a sharper beauty edit of emerging brands...
Mass Beauty Has Momentum. Can It Maintain It?
Beleaguered American consumers are cutting back across categories to manage escalating costs for gas, housing, groceries and healthcare, but beauty spending is holding up. For mass-market brands and retailers, that durability presents a clear...
In Beauty’s Retail Arms Race, Target And Walmart Push Premiumization
As higher-income shoppers drive a disproportionate share of beauty spending, Target and Walmart are racing to premiumize their assortments by introducing brands designed to deliver prestige cues at mass prices. Target has onboarded over...
Bustling Wellness Clubs Replaced Bars. Now Solitude Makes A Comeback
Of all the chic sauna and contrast therapy destinations that have opened up in Manhattan recently, one stands out from the rest of its cohort: Instead of a large sauna that can fit 100 people at...
Inside Sephora And Ulta Beauty’s Battle For The Next Big Brands
In a cutthroat retail environment where newness is a critical lever to maintain relevance, Sephora and Ulta Beauty are doubling down on their distinct positioning through a wave of brand launches landing on shelves.
Indian Fragrances Step Into The Spotlight
India has a deep fragrance heritage, from producing attar, the distillation of flowers, woods and spices, to supplying prized ingredients like sandalwood, jasmine and patchouli for global perfumery and sustaining centuries of perfume manufacturing. Now, a new...
