Finding The Right Manufacturer For Your Brand

Many founders start their beauty brands in the kitchen. They whip up formulas from scratch, making products based on demand from friends and family. While that may be a noble beginning, there comes a point when...

Leading Beauty Investment Bankers On The Changing Landscape, Hot Categories And Top Deals: Part 1

Investment bankers are essential to dealmaking processes to bring on growth capital, sell companies or take a business public. Especially in today’s uncertain market in which beauty brands can be difficult to value, investment bankers act as liaisons...

Beauty’s Mental Health Connection

When Stephanie Lee, founder and CEO of Selfmade, created her multifunctional skincare brand to incorporate a psychodermatology approach bridging beauty and mental health, she was determined to construct products and tools exploring and promoting rituals that address...

Three Concepts To Watch In The Super-hot Med-Spa And Facial Bar Segments

As the millennial generation, which brought society Facebook and Instagram, enters middle age, and gen Z, the generation that doesn’t know life before social media, enters the workforce in large numbers, med-spas and facial bars are predicting lucrative...

Get To Know 5 Rising Indie Brands In Sephora UK’s Selection

Sephora UK’s website launch in October last year was greeted with disappointment. Customers complained about glitches and described the user experience as underwhelming. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned Sephora acquired British beauty e-tailer Feelunique ahead of the launch,...

Emerging Beauty’s Brightest Executives

Founders are typically in the spotlight at indie beauty brands, but they rarely build a strong business without a strong team. Today, we’re turning the spotlight onto members of their teams, including executives guiding operations, marketing,...