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Why supermarkets are stocking breakout and trendsetting brands on their shelves

Inside Retail

Recently, the supermarket beauty aisle has undergone a makeover of sorts, with Australia’s leading supermarkets Coles and Woolworths now stocking digitally native self-care products. Beauty on a budget Alanna Hinds, managing director of Nobody’s Nobody parent company Stirling and Hinds defines the brands’ customers as both educated and savvy.

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How Ulta Beauty Takes Product Innovation to the Next Level

Rangeme

The beauty enthusiast is at the heart of everything Ulta Beauty does. As a one-stop beauty destination with full-service salons in every store, the retailer provides guests with everything across the spectrum of categories and services. Net sales for Ulta Beauty increased 21 percent to $2.3

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Have we reached peak Christmas advent calendar?

Retail Gazette

These days shoppers expect more than just a square of chocolate inside, with some spending hundreds on calendars that house everything from beauty products to toys and books behind their daily windows. They produce bumper sales for retailers such as Harrods, Boots, and Net-a-Porter. Even pets have their own advent calendars.

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Message in a bottle: How social media has disrupted the fragrance sector

Inside Retail

While multiple categories within the broader beauty industry, like colour cosmetics, experienced a drop in sales during the pandemic, fragrance sales have grown exponentially in the past few years. Founded in 2020, it recently clinched a partnership with Ulta Beauty, and is now available in more than 500 bricks-and-mortar stores.

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Proudly made in China: How Chinese consumers are reclaiming domestic brands

Inside Retail

Still, many Chinese citizens were unable to afford – or unwilling to pay full retail prices – for foreign-branded items. Health, wellness and travel became the new status symbols, swapped out for Rolexes and Birkins in a new spiritual way of living.

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How Becuming is cleaning up the adult toy industry

Inside Retail

But I think that’s part of its beauty. CMH: I think it’s an aspect of sex that we forget to embrace more generally. Sex involves strange sounds, fluids, and body parts. Often it’s messy, carnal, visceral, and gross. Sometimes it’s awkward.

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