Melissa Hibbert Joins BrainTrust Founders Studio As President To Support Diverse Beauty Brand Founders
Melissa Hibbert, a longtime marketer and beauty brand consultant, has joined BrainTrust Founders Studio as president to help scale and publicize Black-owned brands at a moment in which they face daunting challenges. Calling itself the largest...
Stocked In Superdrug And Boots, British Haircare Brand Flora & Curl Rebrands As It Eyes US Distribution
American-loved British natural haircare brand Flora & Curl has undergone a rebrand as it eyes retail distribution in the United States. The purpose of the revamp, which cost nearly $170,000 including product development and marketing, was to...
Josh Rosebrook On The Power Of Staying Independent In A Beauty Market That Valorizes Big Exits
Josh Rosebrook, a celebrity hairdresser turned product developer, began his namesake clean beauty brand in 2009 within a year or two of the launches of fellow clean beauty brands Tara Harper, Ilia, RMS Beauty and...
Who Could Buy Space NK?
Add Space NK to the growing group of beauty companies looking to sell. According to British news outlet Sky News, the prestige beauty specialty retailer owned by venture capital firm Manzanita Capital
Sabbatical Beauty’s Adeline Koh On Rooting A Brand In The Local Community
The beauty conversation has dramatically changed since Adeline Koh, a former race and gender studies professor, launched skincare brand Sabbatical Beauty almost a decade ago. Early on, the idea that someone scholarly like her would...
