This week, I reviewed early shopping results from retail’s biggest weekend of the year, which include record digital sales and yar-over-year growth in foot traffic at big box and off-price stores. Additionally, Unilever invests in new manufacturing processes, Nike taps British makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench for a collab, and Sarah...

In this special crossover podcast episode, Glossy Beauty Podcast co-hosts Lexy Lebsack and Sara Spruch-Feiner are joined by Modern Retail editor-in-chief Cale Guthrie Weissman to discuss BFCM retail trends. This includes the influx of luxury and prestige brick-and-mortar experiential shopping, Amazon’s Haul app that promises “crazy low prices,” and the...

This week, I checked in with retail experts to analyze last week’s earnings from Ross and TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, and learn how the off-price beauty category could thrive amid possible 2025 tariffs. Additionally, nail-care brand Olive & June is acquired, and executive shakeups at...

Andrew Silberstein, founder and CEO of beauty tech company Solawave, speaks with Glossy about the ongoing counterfeiting challenges across marketplace sites like Amazon, which the company has successfully mitigated through a type of lawsuit offered in Illinois courts called ‘Schedule A’. Silberstein calls them fast and effective against a growing...

Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen joins the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss his brand's fundraising journey — which included more than 160 investor meetings over the past two years — and his newest book, “The Guide To Becoming Alive,” available this week from Chronicle Books.

Accelerator and incubator programs are a dime a dozen in the beauty industry, but Ulta Beauty’s MUSE program is different. “We want this [program] to be the beginning of a groundswell movement,” Jessica Phillips, vp of merchandising at Ulta Beauty, told Glossy. “For me, what’s important right now is not resting...

Pact Collective has many facets. First, it serves as a recycling alternative to city-run curbside bins, recycling initiatives run internally at planet-minded brands and the limited number of recyclers servicing the beauty industry. The concept is simple: Educate consumers about their products’ end-of-life while creating a data-driven, closed-loop system that...

For consumers, 2024 was the year of the scalp. But for executives like Christine Hall, the work to develop this category for the U.S. market started nearly a decade ago. Partially fueled by the growing attention on the scalp in Asian countries like Korea and Japan, Hall and her team...

After seven years in business, Angela Caglia Skincare has had its best year to date. The company has experienced 437% sales growth and retail expansion, largely owed to the success of Cell Forté Serum, Caglia’s powerhouse product offering launched in October of 2023.