Sephora expands CBD category with Saint Jane Slowly but surely, Sephora continues the expansion of its cannabis beauty assortment with the addition of three-month-old luxury line Saint Jane.
Create & Cultivate leans further into beauty and wellness As the beauty festival circuit continues to heat up, Create & Cultivate, the 6-year-old career platform and conference, is amping up its beauty and wellness activations.
Beauty and Wellness Briefing: What it means to be a modern CPG company While businesses like Unilever and Procter & Gamble -- with its December 2018 purchase of Walker & Company's brands -- have largely turned to acquisitions to modernize or tap into growing consumer trends, vertically-integrated Maesa has instead incubated its own exclusive brands that then find their footing in select retail doors. Both approaches, while...
Supergoop makes foray into physical retail amid product expansion The sunscreen brand sells in approximately 1,700 stores globally (through key wholesale partnerships with Sephora, Nordstrom and Bluemercury), and on May 3, it will open its first standalone pop-up in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.
‘It’s about what is newer, better, different’: Why the private label beauty segment is booming When news broke earlier this month that discount retailer Dollar General will be rolling out its first private label makeup line, called Believe Beauty, on May 1, it was the fourth private label beauty announcement by a well-known retailer in less than a month.
Inside Avon’s new beauty accelerator program On April 25, the direct-selling, beauty company announced its partnership with Women Startup Competition Europe, a 6-year-old, non-profit organization that offers mentoring and networking to emerging, female-led businesses. Together, the two organizations are launching the competition’s first Beauty Accelerator Program to not only develop emerging companies' point of view and...
Beauty and Wellness Briefing: Why beauty brands and retailers continue to put experiential services front-and-center Beauty brands and retailers see services as a growing segment of the larger category.
Wander Beauty is using its first pop-up to fuel e-commerce sales Wander Beauty is the latest beauty brand to get into the pop-up fray. On April 25, it will open its first physical retail outpost, on the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City. Contrary to what's typical, the beauty company is not using the pop-up as a step toward...
Inside Sephora’s #SephoraSquad influencer ambassador program Sephora is betting on incubating its own influencers. Though the beauty retailer has activated with influencers in a gifting, event and campaign program capacity in the past, Sephora's #SephoraSquad program is an attempt to find “unique, unfiltered, sorry-not-sorry storytellers.”