Retailers

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...

After a 2024 in which several large beauty brands in the Estée Lauder portfolio gave in to the urge to join the Amazon ranks, the e-commerce giant is looking to lock in the top spot...

At Ulta Beauty, a teenage rebellion ousted Dave Kimbell, at least that’s the take at publication Puck, which chalked up his prompt exit as CEO last week at least in part to 11-year-olds pillaging Sephora’s instead...