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Nearly ten years on, the drugstore-to-beauty destination transformation experiment still has yet to produce encouraging results.
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Walgreens and CVS have added beauty services, more expensive products and new indie and DTC brands, in an attempt to compete with online and specialty beauty stores.
How anti-theft measures at drugstores created a new kind of influencer.
Mass retailers like Target and Walmart have invested heavily in their beauty offerings, attracting a fresh crop of indie brands – as well as increasing their overall basket size. For brands wanting a slice of the action, scaling up is necessary.
Yola Mzizi is the Editorial Associate at The Business of Fashion (BoF). She is based in New York and provides operational support to the New York team and writes features for BoF and The Business of Beauty.
The ‘everyman’ skincare market is moving towards premiumisation, as brands like Johnson’s Papatui ditch traditional one-note marketing for a more considered approach.
The successful restock of a vibrator and lube from Styles' beauty and wellness brand Pleasing shows how celebrities are sustaining the sexual wellness category, writes Bloomberg's Jessica Karl.
Following their Global Award wins, founders from Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka share how the recognition changed their business trajectories.
This week, Priya Rao examines Gen Alpha’s next big brand, Hiku.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
