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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

French prestige beauty retailer Sephora is widely recognised as a leader in its category, with 3000 stores and 52,000 team members operating worldwide. While the beauty category tends to be resilient in times of economic downturn, Motte noted that Sephora outperformed the market. “We

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How online retailer Style Story is riding the K-beauty wave

Inside Retail

Style Story founder Lauren Lee discovered her love of Korean beauty products as an exchange student in 2011, which inspired her to launch her own e-commerce business back home in Brisbane, Australia. “On I knew that they would love the ingredients, formulas, approach and purpose of K-Beauty as well.”.

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How Raffles City aims to become Singapore’s ultimate beauty destination

Inside Retail

Singapore, known for its vibrant fashion and beauty scene, has a new star in its constellation of luxury retail destinations. Raffles City, the premier fashion, beauty, and lifestyle mall, is making waves as the ultimate beauty destination in the Lion City. It made its debut in Singapore with its first store at Raffles City.

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C-beauty brands and AI: Inside Sephora’s ‘store of the future’ in Shanghai

Inside Retail

The new Sephora store in Shanghai’s East Nanjing Road not only features the beauty retailer’s new ‘Store of the Future’ concept, but also introduces over 220 new products to the market from over 36 global brands, including Tatcha, Pat McGrath Labs, Hourglass, Anastasia, Dr Dennis Gross and Courreges.

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Space NK Unveils Largest Store in Portfolio with Upgraded Westfield London Location

Retail Focus

Covering 2,500 square feet of trading space, the new store will serve as a beauty shopping destination, tailored to customers’ needs and staffed by a team of Space NK experts. “We Additionally, it features theater spaces for customer engagement. We are delighted to open our biggest store yet at Westfield London.

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Sephora China launches ‘Store of the Future’ retail concept in Shanghai 

Inside Retail

US beauty giant Sephora has brought its ‘Store of the Future’ concept to Shanghai’s East Nanjing Road, the brand’s second globally after launching in Singapore last year. Sephora will also have a purpose-built Beauty Live Studio to gather Sephora’s beauty community for exclusive events or masterclasses.

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Meet Sugar: The “anti-establishment” beauty retailer Indian consumers crave

Inside Retail

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. While multinational brands had always dominated the Indian market, their beauty products were not really suited to the skin complexion of the typical Indian consumer.

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