Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I do mergers & acquisitions in retail/consumer and write about trends. Last year the beauty industry had $570 billion in worldwide ...

The beauty industry is booming. In 2022, the U.S. skincare, makeup, hair care, and fragrance industry reached $30 billion in annual sales for mass market (drugstore) products, and $27 billion for ...

To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. Just over a year after launching its beauty business, Farfetch is exiting the category and will stop selling beauty products on 31 August, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — August is Black Business Month. It's a chance to highlight Black-owned businesses and support them in your community. We have an update on a young woman who opened a beauty academy in ...

Kering agreed to sell its beauty business to L’Oréal for roughly $4.7 billion, an early move by its new chief to revive the luxury conglomerate’s fortunes. Under the deal, announced late Sunday, ...

Volition Beauty is a platform that turns creators into beauty entrepreneurs and their ideas into products. Founder Patricia Santos started as a venture capitalist and was inspired to launch the ...

Last week, Kate Moss’ Cosmoss entered liquidation proceedings just three years after launching. As it turns out, a founder’s star power does not necessarily a business make. Here, WWD looks at 12 ...

(Bloomberg) -- L’Oréal SA, named by Giorgio Armani as a potential investor in the late Italian fashion mogul’s eponymous business, would only be interested in its profitable beauty arm, according to a ...

The shea butter-based oatmeal and brown sugar exfoliating soap bar didn't start as a business venture but as a Trinidadian mother's desperation to alleviate her daughter's eczema. It was 2003 when ...

French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns brands including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga, will sell its beauty business Creed to L’Oréal in a deal valued at €4bn (£3.47bn). Expected to ...

As we step into a new political era, the nation watches with bated breath. A mix of unease and caution fills the air as many ask: What’s next? And, for Black-owned beauty businesses, the question ...