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Beauty’s Retail Reckoning: Specialty and Mass Retail Poised for Further Gains

December 14, 2022November 2, 2021 by WslAdmin

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By Allison Collins on October 29, 2021 || WWD The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have specialty retailers including Sephora and Ulta Beauty poised to gain even more market share in the U.S., experts said. How many brick-and-mortar retail stores does the beauty industry actually need? That’s the question those in the industry are asking themselves in ... Read more

Beauty Spending Will Look Different in 2021

December 14, 2022March 2, 2021 by WslAdmin

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By Allison Collins on February 26, 2021 || WWD “They’re calling it the she-session. That’s going to affect beauty sales, that’s going to affect the quest for value." New year, new beauty shopping habits? For several months, industry insiders have whispered predictions of a “trade down to mass,” insinuating that consumers who have been hurt by the economic fallout from ... Read more

Beauty Industry Execs Applaud Walgreens CEO Choice

December 14, 2022February 1, 2021 by WslAdmin

By Allison Collins and Jenny B. Fine on January 28, 2021 || WWD As consumers come into Walgreens' doors, there's opportunity to evolve the beauty department, sources said. Walgreens Boots Alliance is slated to play an integral part in the U.S. rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, and it’ll be doing so under a new chief executive officer — Rosalind “Roz” Brewer. With the appointment, ... Read more

Wellness Represents a Significant Opportunity for Retailers

February 14, 2023September 1, 2020 by WslAdmin

WWD | By Ellen Thomas on August 31, 2020 Wellness represents a significant opportunity for mass-market retailers, but they've only just begun to democratize a concept long associated with luxury. Five years ago, when Thrive Market, a membership-based e-commerce retailer that sells natural and organic food and wellness products, launched its web site, people who joined were considered ... Read more

Post Neiman’s, Luxe Beauty Brands Explore Options

February 14, 2023May 18, 2020 by WslAdmin

With Neiman Marcus filing Chapter 11 and the specialty channel in flux, ultra-prestige beauty brands are exploring their options. By Jenny B. Fine on May 15, 2020 // WWD, Beauty Inc. Chanel. La Mer. Sisley. La Prairie. When the Neiman Marcus Group filed for Chapter 11 protection late last week, the top 20 unsecured creditors included four beauty (or beauty-related, ... Read more

‘Medtailing’, Medical & Retail, Is Here To Stay

February 14, 2023February 26, 2020 by WslAdmin

BY KAREN KROLL // National Retail Federation, February 26, 2020 Changing demographics are helping drive continued interest in the mix of retail and health care. While many areas of bricks-and-mortar retailing face headwinds, one shows signs of growth and promise: health care and medical services offered within stores and shopping centers. These services extend beyond the pharmacies ... Read more

Macy’s Plan to Build Private Label Brands Faces Tough Odds

February 14, 2023February 12, 2020 by WslAdmin

BY PHIL WAHBA // Fortune, February 11, 2020 Macy's wants to take more of its fate into its own hands. One of the key components of the comeback plan the struggling department store company unveiled to Wall Street last week is its ambition to turn four of its long-established in-house fashion brands—I.N.C. International Concepts, Alfani, Style & Co, and Charter ... Read more

3 Ways to Know if Your Beauty Brands are Man Enough

July 21, 2023February 4, 2020 by WslAdmin

Men are venturing into the beauty category at a pace that could turn an unprepared brand’s hair gray. Yet while interested in the category, many men don’t know how to enter it. Our How America Shops® survey revealed three steps for getting them there – but don’t wait or you’ll be a runner-up. Real men ... Read more

How Brands Are Rethinking Water Conservation

July 24, 2023January 3, 2020 by WslAdmin

WWD / December 18, 2019 / By Allison Collins, Photography By George Chinsee From P&G to Owa, modern beauty brands are finding ways into the waterless beauty movement. Are you ready for the age of powder shampoo? Waterless beauty, a small but increasingly intriguing category comprised of brands and products that think of water differently at varying points in ... Read more

The Trend Predictor: Wendy Liebmann by Fragrance Foundation

February 22, 2023December 23, 2019 by WslAdmin

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Fragrance Foundation Accords | December 12, 2019 Wendy Liebmann knows what you’re going to buy before you do. She also knows why, and where you’re going to shop for it. The Australian-born founder of WSL Strategic Retail has been conducting research and reading the tea leaves about consumer habits for more than two decades, helping ... Read more

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