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JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been quite a year for Indian beauty retailer Sugar, which has just concluded a $50 million Series D fundraise led by the Asia Fund of L Catterton. L Catterton’s strategic partnership with LVMH will also supercharge Sugar’s expansion in the near future. Consumers are at the heart of all we do. Celebrating uniqueness.

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JULY 15, 2021

What started out as a personal blog for Jessica Sepel during her studies in health and nutrition over 10 years ago, laid the foundations for what is now leading wellness and lifestyle brand JSHealth. The products have proven popular not only with consumers but with celebrities from J.Lo Taking health to the world.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Across Australia a new set of beauty destinations have silently started popping up, bringing premium products to customers in a place they likely didn’t expect. So for the last few years, we’ve basically built [Ultra Beauty] from the ground up, and we’re going after the premium beauty market.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Australian luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty has launched its first major physical space in Australia, but there’s a catch: it’s only open for 48 hours. According to MCoBeauty founder Shelley Sullivan, the brand has toyed with physical spaces before, but the House of Beauty is its first “wow moment” in the bricks-and-mortar world.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At Dermalogica we are extremely proud that we did not furlough any members of staff and continued to push forward with multiple retail expansion projects together as a team. This year, Dermalogica has opened up new physical spaces in the UK like your new stores within Harrods and kiosks in shopping centres.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last month, Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale launched its first two international boutiques in Singapore, under the wing of South Korean beauty giant Amorepacific, which invested in the company in 2020. The complete focus from Richard has always been on optimal skin health.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

After only six months of operations, Aje Collective’s beauty brand, Ikkari, launched its first physical location, with the promise of more to come. The business uses all-natural ingredients across a slew of products, ranging from skincare and ingestibles, to beauty and diffusers. Next, however, is its own bricks-and-mortar expansion.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When Australian toothpaste brand Gem first launched in 2020, the oral hygiene market was dominated by major global names like Colgate and Listerine, but the response from consumers shows there was clearly a gap in the market for a disruptor brand. “My Our packaging takes elements from beauty and applies it to oral care.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Skincare reigns supreme in the beauty industry – and for good reason. With increasing consumer awareness, a vital lesson has emerged: daily sunscreen is your skin’s best friend. We also need to ensure our visual communications can stand up to a consumer who has never heard of us.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Following its recent launch into Australian pharmacy chain Priceline, cult fragrance brand Who Is Elijah is eyeing international expansion, starting with the US and UK. And co-founder Raquel Bouris is kicking things off with a guerrilla marketing campaign aimed at catching the attention of a leading British beauty chain. “I’m

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APRIL 29, 2021

Australian clean beauty brand Frank Body has its sights set firmly on conquering the Chinese market after clinching a deal with Shanghai-based private equity firm EverYi Capital, valuing the brand at around $100 million. We mean something quite different to the US consumer than what we do to the Australian consumer.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

That same month, Japanese beauty giant Kao Corporation picked up the popular self-tanner and skincare brand Bondi Sands, in a deal estimated to be worth $450 million. billion for luxury skincare and beauty brand Aesop. As consumers have tightened their wallets, they have become more selective.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As any savvy beauty retailer knows, selling customers skincare products is about more than just reducing pores and clearing surface-level blemishes, but boosting their self-esteem, health and wellbeing. Why do you think beauty businesses like Mecca require someone who specialises specifically in skincare education these days?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Classic cookware brands hadn’t innovated for the younger consumer, resulting in a gap in the market for Our Place to create products for the modern, multiethnic and global kitchen. When we brought the product to market it instantly resonated with home cooks and changed the cookware space.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We like to consider ourselves your concierge in the wellbeing space. It’s quite hard to create immersive spaces online, particularly if you’re in retail, but we just want to create an environment where people want to come and be there. With anything new, you have to be patient and just create a space where people actually want to come.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We like to consider ourselves your concierge in the wellbeing space. It’s quite hard to create immersive spaces online, particularly if you’re in retail, but we just want to create an environment where people want to come and be there. With anything new, you have to be patient and just create a space where people actually want to come.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The tour will showcase the brand’s fragrance and grooming products for men, with immersive pop-up experiences that will allow consumers to experience its products in real life, and opportunities to win coupons, full-size products, and attend meet-and-greets with local celebrity athletes at select events.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

CEO Myles Anceschi discusses how the brand is tracking overseas, keeping up with consumer expectations and why more businesses should invest in women returning to the workplace. It’s so important in most channels and segments, but really turbocharged in beauty, where you need to have good news and solve customer problems.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Six months after leaving the eco-friendly online retail business she sold to manufacturing and consumer goods company BWX for $27.9 As CEO and co-owner of Snuggle Hunny Kids, Mathers is back in the driver’s seat of a brand, which she describes as her “happy space”. “I But less than six months later, she resigned.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Following its 2020 marketing strategy rebrand, Parfums de Marly felt now was the right time to enter the Australian retail space with its French vision of excellence and luxury in opposition to standardisation, through in-store customer experience. By culture, we are a department store brand in the way we function.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The expansion from New South Wales to Victoria follows a successful pop-up in St Kilda and comes as founder Samantha Appel continues to buck the trend among skincare clinics with her non-invasive approach and firm stance against injectables. Australia’s facial injectable market was estimated to be worth US$2.6

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APRIL 26, 2022

Each of our spaces is unique, but we consistently strive to retain original features where possible, and to add something of value to the local community. Everyone who enters an Aesop space is welcomed as a guest in our home and offered tea, conversation, and unobtrusive personal service. We create memorable journeys wherever we go.

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JULY 26, 2022

For the 90-year-old beauty giant, the filing represents a final lifeline, as it attempts to rectify debt with creditors by borrowing over $370million. Known as a trailblazer, Revlon was once the most radical company in its space. The democratisation of beauty. What went wrong?

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Design Middleeast

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The first time I saw the area, I was blown away by how beautiful it was. Here are some distinct features that set MOLI apart: Versatile dining spaces: From cozy tables for couples to spacious circular tables designed for communal enjoyment, MOLI ensures a welcoming atmosphere for every occasion. I knew that I had to live here.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

Retailers using AMRs should be aware of the potential backlash from consumers who (rightly or wrongly) worry about the impact on the labour market.” Javadi added that the health and safety of our people is its highest priority, with the business conducting full risk assessments and controls to minimise the chance of any harm taking place.

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Retailing Insight

MARCH 24, 2021

Consumers are drawn toward handmade products for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the desire to obtain something unique that did not come off an assembly line. My goal was to bring beautiful handmade products and use that as a tool to support marginalized communities in India,” said Gupta. “My

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JANUARY 19, 2024

With a vast range of health benefits attributed to acai berries, businesses across industries are tapping into this superfood and getting creative with how they serve it up to consumers. This is in addition to the recent $100 million investment it received, which will be allocated to accelerate the business’ expansion plans.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Byron Bay refillables start-up Zero Co has expanded beyond household cleaning and into beauty, launching refillable and single-use plastic free shampoo, conditioner, body lotion and roll-on deodorants. The business also sees international expansion on the horizon. “We

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The design of the lifestyle centres is functional and clean, and the tenant mix brings together – in a modest amount of space equivalent to an Australian sub-regional centre or a US community centre – enough merchandise, food and leisure to satisfy most needs. The eat-shop-play moniker is not a bad descriptor.

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JULY 4, 2023

Started by Ami Bateman and Sian Murray in 2020, Pleasant State is a direct-to-consumer home care brand that aims to change the way consumers approach cleaning. million crowdfunding raise to fuel its retail expansion and launch into overseas markets. I saw this as an opportunity that didn’t exist in Australia.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Consumers don’t buy into a product; they buy into the brand. Even before the pandemic, the farm-to-fork and paddock-to plate-movements were gaining momentum, with people wanting to be educated on what they are consuming and using. This enables brands to test the appetite and “brand fit” for that market through targeted consumer demand.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Here, CEO Roumen Staykov and general manager Josh Willoughby discuss how the brand began, its expansion plans and how it’s become part of the Adelaide running community. As a hub for the Adelaide running community, the store transforms into a unique event space after hours, with a dropdown projector screen and integrated audio system.

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