Kendo Brands’ Sarah Koch: Brand relevance is ‘the million-dollar question’ Sarah Koch, svp and gm of Kendo Brands, spoke on the Glossy Beauty podcast about brand relevancy, the reason OleHenriksen won't be launching scalp care anytime soon, and the motivation for teaming with TikToker Alix Earle.
Sally Beauty cozies up to HBCU students as hair-care demographics change According to Pew Research, Gen Z best exemplifies the U.S.’s changing racial and ethnic makeup, influencing factors like hair type and skin tone.
‘All brands will rely heavily on technology’ in 2024, as the consumer journey evolves The consumer buying journey has been upended over the last several years, due, in part, to the rise of product discovery on social media, an altered DTC e-commerce landscape and the beauty industry’s emphasis on omnichannel. On Monday, during a one-day LTK Beautiful event hosted in Miami, several beauty industry...
Beekman 1802 establishes a tiered ambassador program based on kindness Called the “Kindness Krew,” the program, which launched in mid-February, is based on the Beekman 1802 team’s desires to drive sales to its DTC e-commerce channel, focus on brand awareness and earned media value with an always-on approach, and connect the values of the brand — namely, kindness — to...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: The beauty sections of off-price retailers are getting an elevated makeover A presence in off-price retail channels, which include Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Nordstrom Rack and Saks Off 5th, has long been a sensitive subject among beauty brands based on the fear that selling marked-down products will equate to brand equity dilution. But a peek inside some of these off-price retailers now...
How Urban Skin Rx plans to grow its Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha customer base Gen Z and Gen Alpha represent 5-10% of Urban Skin Rx customers, while millennials are 30-40%, depending on the sales channel. The goal is to grow the Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha customer base to 15-20% of sales over the next 3-5 years.
Allergan Aesthetics’ Carrie Strom on the ‘aesthetics generation’ and new frontiers for injectables In conversation on the Glossy Beauty podcast, Strom discussed how younger consumers are changing the aesthetics market and how Skinvive can serve as an entry point for new patients, among other topics.
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Miami is the new beauty hotspot In the last three years, there has been a greater appeal to the industry thanks partly to the New Yorker diaspora of 2020 that saw Empire State residents decamp to the Sunshine State, plus the growing ethnic and generational diversity
Cetaphil plans splashy NYFW moments with Marc Jacobs and Alice & Olivia For the 76-year-old skin-care brand, the campaign concept is to show how stressful working or participating in NYFW can be on sensitive skin and how Cetaphil is the perfect go-to item to help combat irritation.