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Unpacking Beauty Copacker Consolidation With Raymond James Investment Banker Jon Tenan
Raymond James has been the fulcrum of several recent big deals in the beauty space, including those involving the brands Roc, K18 and Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare. More under the radar, the investment bank is...
Longtime Investment Banker Andrew Shore On What Investors Want From Emerging Brands And The State Of Beauty M&A
After 41 years on Wall Street, including 37 years orchestrating beauty and personal care deals, Andrew Shore has retired from investment banking. For the last 15 years, he’s been managing director at Moelis & Co., where he...
True Beauty Ventures And View From 32 On Why Brands Have To Be Much More Than Retail Ready To Enter Chains Today
While their domains are undoubtedly distinct, beauty retailers and beauty investors are becoming much more alike. “We’re making bets on which brands might be successful scaling,” says Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner of True Beauty Ventures,...
Top Knot Ventures’ Manica Blain On Why Individual Investors Are Particularly Important For Early-Stage Brands Today
After pitching 20 venture capital firms and receiving a term sheet from one, Indu, a forthcoming teenage beauty brand from Feelunique co-founders Aaron Chatterley and Richard Schiessel, ended up securing $4.8 million in funding from...
Bansk Group’s Bart Becht Makes The Business Case For ESG In CPG
Bart Becht has been in the consumer packaged goods space since 1982, a year that saw Diet Coke and Drakkar Noir hit the market. After he surprised the CPG world by ending his 17-year tenure as...
SKU’s Michelle Breyer Takes Stock Of Accelerator Programs And What CPG Brands Should Be Focused On Right Now
At textured hair digital destination NaturallyCurly, co-founder Michelle Breyer took a problem she was passionate about—that people with curly hair weren’t celebrated and couldn’t find products right for them—and addressed it by building a lucrative business. At...
