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Fleeting beauty: Inside the downward spiral of BWX

Inside Retail

To say health and beauty conglomerate BWX has had a difficult few years could be an understatement. After purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of successful beauty brands and platforms, the business, which was valued at $860 million five years ago, is now worth about $36 million. It’s a long story. What went wrong?

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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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Inside Australia’s $4 billion beauty manufacturing industry

Inside Retail

When most people think about the beauty manufacturing hubs of the world, there’s a good chance they’ll imagine Korea, France or Germany. However, Australia is home to a burgeoning beauty manufacturing industry creating some of the world’s favourite brands. It hasn’t happened by chance, though.

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The strategy behind Chemist Warehouse’s online marketplace launch

Inside Retail

Chemist Warehouse announced the launch of an online marketplace last week in an effort to expand its online presence in the pharmacy, health and beauty categories. Marketplacer, which has been helping retailers build their own marketplace offerings for six years, has benefited from the uptake of online shopping over the last few years.

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Marketplace Medcart chalks up $10 million in first-year sales

Inside Retail

Australian health and medical start-up Medcart has achieved $10 million in annual sales in less than 12 months. The website allows pharmacy, health and medical providers to display their products along with images, descriptions and prices. There was no mechanism to assist staff in locating manufacturers and placing PPE orders.

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Holiday Shopping 2021: How SEOs Can Help Clients Inspire, Deliver and Sustain

Retail TouchPoints

As SEOs [search engine optimizers], any heavy lifting we can do to clear a path for our clients toward success in the holiday shopping season will be especially welcome in 2021. We’ll look at these key elements of a positive and profitable holiday shopping program that will help you make a meaningful contribution to excellent client outcomes.

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Skin in the game: Cult beauty brand The Ordinary launches into India

Inside Retail

Kilner said India ranked relatively highly in the company’s direct-to-consumer e-commerce traffic, but until recently, the business had low conversion rates there, due to difficulties with shipping times and customs fees. It is hoped that the target audience will be able to shop for products with ease via the omnichannel routes. “We

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