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Beauty’s Retail Reckoning: Specialty and Mass Retail Poised for Further Gains
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...Learn More
Beauty Breaks Barriers in Health, Safety and Innovation
Shoppers have been inspiring remarkable retail innovations across categories, but in few areas are the results as noteworthy as in beauty’s healthy, safety and digitally progressive experiences. WSL’s Virtual Retail Safari® Open Call Event, scheduled for March 11, captures the most visionary and shopper-inspired examples. Healthy Beauty is an Exercise in...Learn More
Beauty Spending Will Look Different in 2021
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...Learn More
Beauty Industry Execs Applaud Walgreens CEO Choice
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 —...Learn More
Post Neiman’s, Luxe Beauty Brands Explore Options
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...Learn More
Finding The Next Normal in a Post COVID-19 Beauty World
In this CEW Free Webinar, Wendy Liebmann shares how shopper attitudes and behaviors are dynamically changing as we transition from a health crisis to a financial crisis, including implications, emerging issues, and opportunities, all helping to lay the groundwork for The Next Normal. If you’d like to learn more about...Learn More