Retailers
This Budding Salon Chain Wants To Be Drybar Of The Textured Hair Salon Business
Piersten Gaines is out to reinvent salons for the textured hair community with a mix of knowledge, customer service, class and fun. So far, it seems to be working. Her concept Pressed Roots, which specializes in blowdry...
Gen Z-Led Rosen Skincare Launches Acne Products At Gen Z’s Favorite Beauty Retailer Ulta Beauty
When Rosen Skincare founder Jamika Martin secured a partnership with Ulta Beauty earlier this year, she knew she wanted a fun display to show off her brand’s acne-focused products. “As far as younger consumers, there’s so much...
As Beauty PR Veers Closer To Advertising, PR Pro Dianne Vavra Opens A Store As A Genuine Stage For Beauty Brands And Vintage Pieces
After decades in the beauty PR biz, Dianne Vavra, founder of Spotlight Beauty PR and former senior VP of press relations at Christian Dior, has accumulated plenty of horror stories. There was an A-list American actress in Paris...
Inflation, Beauty, E-Commerce, Exec Moves And More: A Look At February’s Big Retail News
Is the retail industry’s rebound living on borrowed time? It’s a cryptic question, but some business intelligence analysts are answering it affirmatively as the inflation rate in the United States hit its highest point in decades...
Beauty Retail Brief: January 2022
The themes roiling retail for the past several months—consolidation, department store struggles and ongoing pandemic disruptions, for example—shaped the industry significantly at the outset of this year. Whether they’ll remain as prominent or new themes will...
“The Lululemon Of Pleasure”: E-Tailer The Lake Focuses On Sexual Wellness As Part Of Consumers’ Daily Lives
When The Lake launched in 2019, married co-founders Bren and Philippe Gauthier tried to come out of the gate with a strong public relations strategy in Canada and the United States to promote the
