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News

Blog 3 months ago
Beauty Briefing: From tampons to fragrance, K-beauty is everywhere
This week, I checked in on K-beauty's growth beyond traditional beauty categories like makeup and skin care, into everything from menstrual products to "scent care." Additionally, Katie Jane Hughes' makeup brand gears up for its Sephora debut, and Amouage
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Blog 3 months ago
Marketplaces love to tout their GMV, but the stat doesn't tell the whole story
In The RealReal's quarterly earnings last week, the company touted an impressive figure: gross merchandise value had reached a record $617 million in the quarter, up 22% from the quarter before. "We're upleveling the customer experience, deepening trust a
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Blog 3 months ago
Ulta Beauty bets on the growing scalp-care market with prestige hair-care brand Nutrire
Ulta Beauty is on a hair-growth journey. On Monday, the beauty giant will launch the scalp-focused hair-care brand Nutrire on Ulta.com, followed by a rollout to 250 doors on August 23. "Ulta is always scouting for what's next," said Kristen Chase, gm at N
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Blog 3 months ago
Exclusive: Jupiter enters Ulta Beauty as the retailer targets dandruff, solution-based hair care
Jupiter, the 6-year-old dandruff category disruptor, is entering 500 Ulta Beauty stores on August 23 as the retailer pushes deeper into clinical- and solution-based hair care. "Fifty percent of the world gets dandruff at some point in their lives," Robbie
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Blog 3 months ago
Glossy Pop Newsletter: PepsiCo-owned Poppi hires 250 paid student ambassadors to lead on-campus marketing, identify sales channels
PepsiCo-owned Poppi soda is back on college campuses for the third year in hopes of winning the back-to-school marketing season - and the brand has new tricks up its sleeve. "We just hit a milestone on our application for our paid student ambassador progr
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Blog 3 months ago
Luxury Briefing: Could luxury's next 'it' product be software? Brunello Cucinelli's is already a 7-figure business
In this week's Luxury Briefing, I speak with chief of humanistic technology Francesco Bottigliero about Brunello Cucinelli's AI software platform, Callimacus, and its new Salesforce partnership. The company is betting that its technology expertise can bec
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Podcast 3 months ago
Copenhagen Fashion Week built the Scandi boom. Can it still grow another Ganni?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify Copenhagen Fashion Week is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week, marking two decades in which it has grown from a regional trade event into what is often described as fashion's unofficial fifth city. Running from Au
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Award 3 months ago
How awards show beauty partnerships between artists, brands and celebs come together, with PRTNRS' Marissa Alfe and Lauren FitzGerald
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify Have you ever wondered how awards show beauty partnerships come together to create big, splashy red carpet moments that seem to reverberate across social media for weeks or months? Award season partnerships are big busine
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