Retail Report
How Protective Styling Salon Concept Naza Beauty Survived A Year Of Lockdowns
On Feb. 22, 2020, Natanya Montgomery held the grand opening of Naza Beauty, her hotly anticipated protective styling salon concept designed for Black and brown women, and located in San Francisco’s trendy Mission District. “We...
New Marketplace The Fascination Wants To Make It Easier For Consumers To Shop DTC Brands
In a 2020 in which many companies were devastated, entrepreneurship flourished in the United States. Nearly 4.5 million small businesses started, making 2020 the biggest year on record for business formation with a 24.3% surge from 2019,...
Troupe Beauty Pivoted From Selling Its Own Products To Third-Party Brands Amid The Pandemic
One of the pledges Troupe Beauty makes to its customers is that it will always do better. Amid the pandemic, doing better has meant overhauling its business model. In 2019, the company...
As The CBD Market Matures, E-Tailer Poplar Diversifies Its Assortment And Releases A Wellness Catalog
Poplar is evolving beyond its CBD e-tailer beginnings. With the input of Blair Lauren Brown, creator of early CBD beauty brand Verté Essentials, who joined the company started by CEO Beryl Solomon as co-founder and chief product...
For New E-Tailer Carré Beauty, Minimalism Is The Ultimate Luxury
Sometimes simplicity is the utmost luxury. That’s the premise of Carré Beauty, a new e-tailer from Sheila Eap, former senior merchandise planner at Neiman Marcus, who’s bringing the editing skills of a merchant to cultivate an assortment...
Nordstrom Assembles Hand Sanitizer Selection With Products From Curie, Noshinku And More
Nordstrom’s beauty departments have added germ killing to the list of benefits their products deliver. The department store retailer has introduced an array of hand sanitizers from brands such as Curie, Noshinku, This Works, Julep, Peter Thomas Roth,...
