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3 weeks ago | 
uschamber.com | Faye Brookman
Harry Slatkin and his wife Laura helped pioneer the home fragrance market, now a $25 billion global industry. His company, Slatkin + Co., proves it’s possible to create prestige home fragrance and candle products for the mass market. ‘Never talk down to a customer’ is his mantra. Slatkin is expanding his ‘masstige’ home fragrance into scented car and bodycare products, with personal care en route to represent 40% of company sales.
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1 month ago | 
uschamber.com | Faye Brookman
Fragrances are the fastest-growing category in the beauty business today, according to Circana. Gen Z, including teenage boys, are driving a perfume boom by curating “fragrance wardrobes,” just as sales of affordably priced “dupes” of upscale perfumes saw double-digit gains. You can’t smell perfumes online, but social media influencer endorsements have helped entice younger customers to enter the market. Thefragrance industry is booming.
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1 month ago | 
wwd.com | Alex Wynne |Jenny B. Fine |Faye Brookman |Emily Burns |Kathryn Hopkins |Noor Lobad | +5 more
The top 100 beauty hair, makeup, skin care and fragrance companies in the world in 2024 are in, based on revenue.
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2 months ago | 
wwd.com | Alex Wynne |Jenny B. Fine |Faye Brookman |Emily Burns |Kathryn Hopkins |Noor Lobad | +5 more
Speed and agility were the buzzwords of 2024, so it's apropos that beauty sales broke the $250 billion barrier for the first time last year. But there are clouds on the horizon. What's clear from the 2024 WWD Beauty Inc Top 100, our annual ranking of the world's largest beauty companies by sales, is that the industry is undergoing seismic shifts as a result of geopolitical tensions, technological advances and a consumer landscape that is more complex than ever before.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
uschamber.com | Faye Brookman
Chemist Ron Robinson parlayed his expertise gleaned from working on blockbuster beauty formulas for brands like Clinique and Revlon to create his own brand, BeautyStat. The startup now ranks among Ulta Beauty’s top 10 best-selling skin care items and reflects the industry’s migration to scientifically backed brands. Robinson’s success caught the eye of celebrity Hailey Bieber, who hired him to develop her skin care brand, Rhode Skin.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Faye Brookman
CVS and Walgreens - longtime rivals on street corners across America - are putting competition aside to promote sun care safety, joining forces with other major retailers for a common cause. The nation's biggest drugstore chains are joining Ulta Beauty, Meijer, Hy-Vee, several dermatologists and The Skin Cancer Foundation to support an unbranded campaign called Sun Responsibly.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
uschamber.com | Faye Brookman
Disruptor brand Milani Cosmetics is beating the odds and continues to grow despite a stagnant mass market beauty landscape, thanks to an optimized mix of core merchandise, innovation, and strong social buzz. Affordable luxury is Milani’s sweet spot, a market positioning that’s paid off with 12 consecutive quarters of growth.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
cew.org | Faye Brookman
Maesa’s meteoric rise to success seems like a recent phenomenon, but the company’s roots date back to 1997 when Julien Saada and Gregory Mager founded it, in Paris, as a supplier of private label personal care. In 2007, a U.S. subsidiary opened in New York City, and the transition into a global incubator for some of the biggest brands in mass retail was under way. Today, Maesa’s portfolio includes brands in hair care, fragrance, skin care, and personal care.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
beautymatter.com | Faye Brookman
Seeking innovation at Cosmoprof North America’s (CPNA) second Miami exhibition, Shark Tank’s Daymond John stopped at the Exoceuticals booth in the Discover Beauty special section. John has first-hand knowledge of the benefits of exosomes from his Arizona physician, says Dr. Robin Smith, Exoceuticals co-founder.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Faye Brookman |Jenny B. Fine
The weather was cold and dreary, but the mood in Miami for the second iteration of Cosmoprof Miami, held Jan. 21-23, was upbeat. The event attracted about 19,000 attendees from 115 different countries — largely on track with last year — and a slew of new exhibitors. The number of fragrance brands, for example, doubled, while the number of skin care and makeup brands were each up by about 25 percent.
