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Beauty Formula Pricing Still Runs On Excel. Sleek Flow Labs Wants To Change That
Beauty manufacturing may be moving to newfangled robots, but many parts of the industry remain antiquated, including formula costing and price quoting largely conducted on Excel spreadsheets and reliant on manual vendor outreach and accumulated internal know-how....
The Mid-Sized Squeeze: Why Beauty Brands Are Getting Stuck In The Middle
They call it stuck in the middle for a reason. In beauty, mid-sized brands are feeling the squeeze. That pressure is showing up in growth expectations. One beauty industry consultant told us that,...
In A Noisy World, Founders Reprioritize Their Roles To Focus As Their Brands Grow
Six years into Three Ships Beauty, Connie Lo is shifting from a scrappy co-founder to a true co-CEO to help scale the skincare brand from $16 million in sales to $50 million over the next two to...
Can Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Comeback Be More Than A Nostalgia Play?
Marc Jacobs Beauty is preparing for a comeback. After disappearing from shelves in 2021 following the end of its licensing partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned brand incubator Kendo, Coty secured...
Beauty Founders Say Tariffs Cost Them Thousands To Millions, Forcing Permanent Changes
In a landmark ruling watched closely by business, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Friday, Feb. 20, holding in a 6-3 decision that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the legal...
Eco-Conscious Founders Face A Consumer Backlash, But Remain Optimistic About Sustainable Beauty’s Future
Sustainable beauty’s recent heyday, which peaked in the late 2010s and early 2020s as refillable, plastic-free and solid-format brands gained momentum, now feels like a different era. Inflation, social media-fueled trend cycles and heightened price sensitivity...
