Retail

Beauty Pitch Alert: The Big Find returns at QVC and HSN

Beauty Pitch Alert: The Big Find returns at QVC and HSN

By Deanna Utroske

For the third year now, the video commerce and livestream retailer Qurate is running The Big Find pitch competition to discover founder-led brands across consumer product categories, including cosmetics and personal care.

Beauty brands help boost business at Yottaa

Beauty brands help boost business at Yottaa

By Deanna Utroske

The website performance optimization specialist served more than 200% more sites during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and signed deals with notable skin care and hair care brands like TULA and Briogeo.

Mozzafiato: Italian Beauty new retail home in US and Canada

Mozzafiato: Italian Beauty has a new retail home in the US and Canada

By Deanna Utroske

Building on the multi-brand specially beauty concept popularized by retailers large and small, like Sephora, Ulta, Credo, and Beauty Heroes, Mozzafiato is curating Italian Beauty brands for the US market and reaching consumers both online and in store....

Buy now, Pay later: Sephora Canada signs deal with PayBright

Buy now, Pay later: Sephora Canada signs a deal with PayBright

By Deanna Utroske

The beauty retailer already offers US consumers an installment payments option in partnership with Klarna, a Sweden-based bank and financial services company. Now, a deal with Paybright brings that same financing option to beauty consumers in Canada.

Is single-dose beauty packaging what retail needs to succeed?

Is single-dose beauty packaging what retail needs to succeed?

By Deanna Utroske

Before the Coronavirus pandemic, beauty product testing was a mainstay of cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance retail. With stores starting to reopen in the Americas region, brands and retailers are looking for the right way to let shoppers test makeup...

L’Oréal closes all retail in Canada

L’Oréal closes all retail in Canada

By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker announced this week that all L’Oréal – owned stores across the country are closed “until further notice to help protect employees and customers from the threat of COVID-19.”

2 of SEED Beauty’s newest brands land at Ulta

2 of SEED Beauty’s newest brands land at Ulta

By Deanna Utroske

This month, the vertically integrated cosmetics and personal care accelerator brought its DTC brands Fourth Ray Beauty and SOL Body in to the conventional retail channel in a deal with Ulta Beauty.

Indie beauty brands are winning with QVC and HSN

Editor's Spotlight

Indie beauty brands are winning with QVC and HSN

By Deanna Utroske

Following a pitch competition in mid 2019, the video commerce channels owned and operated by Qurate Retail Group are putting winning brands on air and in front of millions of consumers.

What beauty retail brought us in 2019

What beauty retail brought us in 2019

By Simon Pitman

Beauty retail has come full evolved beyond all recognition in the past few years, with digital retailers, social media and the growth of dedicated high street chains such as Ulta and Sephora all playing a part.

Cosmetics, beauty trends 2020 by CosmeticDesign global editors

10-MINUTE WATCH:TRENDS 2020 BY COSMETICSDESIGN EDITORS

15 global beauty trends to watch in 2020: From CosmeticsDesign's editors

By Kacey Culliney

Next-generation vegan, clean & ethical and derma beauty products will take the spotlight next year, amid a consumer green uprising, focus on ingredient circularity and rapid growth in China's fine fragrance market. CosmeticDesign's global...

This Month in Fragrance: November 2019

This Month in Fragrance: November 2019

By Deanna Utroske

Top fragrance news on CosmeticsDesign.com this month featured a new retail shop, a new fragrance brand, and a new approach to ingredient transparency.

Caswell-Massey opens NYC pop-up boutique

Caswell-Massey opens NYC pop-up boutique

By Deanna Utroske

The centuries-old American fragrance brand has been updating nearly every aspect of its business over the past 3 years and is now welcoming long-time consumers, new brand fans, and curious shoppers to experience the old and the new of Caswell-Massey at...