Retailers

Sephora is exercising its vaunted curation powers by enlarging its stable of influencer, buzzy K-Beauty and expert-led makeup, skincare and haircare brands.  The beauty specialty chain is refining its assortment from a...

Pushing into categories beyond traditional beauty, Credo wants to be a one-stop shop for clean living devotees. At the end of 2024, the San Francisco-based NextWorld Evergreen-owned retailer launched a home vertical by adding candle and...

Ulta Beauty’s assortment building shows the beauty specialty retailer playing offense and defense to keep pace with competitors such as Sephora, Amazon and TikTok Shop and establish leadership in certain categories, notably wellness. Starting in 2021,...

As Target, Walmart and Amazon pull back from diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Ulta Beauty, Sephora and Sally Beauty have reaffirmed commitments to them. The beauty retailers embarked on several efforts following the murder of George Floyd...

Target spent the past week in the headlines for dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, including initiatives implemented in 2021 after the murder of George Floyd to add Black-owned brands to its selection and work with Black-owned...

In 2021, Target, the big-box chain based in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered the year before, committed to investing more than $2 billion in Black-owned businesses, including adding 500 Black-owned brands to its shelves...