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Gun Ana launches suncare line in the UK

Swedish suncare brand Gun Ana, founded in 2020 by Sigrid Osvald and Kajsa Regnér, has officially launched in the UK. Originating from Stockholm, Gun Ana was inspired by the founder's personal experiences during a skiing season in the French Alps, where they recognised the significance of year-round sun protection, as well as a need to redefine...

Fashion

Model Bella Hadid launches fragrance with new Orebella brand

Model Bella Hadid has launched a fragrance collection in partnership with Celebrands. A set of three scents dubbed as skin perfume will launch with Ulta Beauty on May 2nd, and is being marketed as an alchemy line that is alchohol free and infused with natural oils. Celebrands is company that brings capital and operational resources to...

Business

Puig prepares to go public, setting share price at 24,50 euros

Spanish fragrance and fashion conglomerate Puig is poised to debut on the stock market this Friday, marking one of the most highly anticipated IPOs of the quarter. The company, which owns prominent brands like Dries Van Noten, Byredo, and Charlotte Tilbury, seeks to raise 2.6 billion euros, with a share price guidance of 24.50 euros per share,...

Retail |Beauty

Boots own-brand becomes biggest Leaping Bunny-approved beauty range in the UK

Beauty and health retailer Boots has been named as having the biggest range of Leaping Bunny-approved own-brand beauty products on the UK high street. The Leaping Bunny programme from Cruelty Free International, the leading organisation working to end animal testing, is a globally recognised standard for assessing cruelty-free cosmetics and...

Business |Beauty

Glossier brings back scheme to support Black beauty entrepreneurs

Beauty brand Glossier has confirmed that its UK Black Beauty Grant Programme, which launched last year in partnership with Black Girl Fest Studios, is returning for 2024 to offer funding and tailored business support to Black beauty entrepreneurs in the UK. The UK grant programme builds off Glossier’s US initiative that began in 2020 and has...

Retail |Beauty

Jason Wu Beauty expands in the US

Jason Wu Beauty, the cosmetics brand founded in 2021 by cosmetics industry legend Toni Ko and fashion designer Jason Wu, is expanding into CVS stores across the US. The beauty brand is joining CVS’s off-shelf display programme and launching a range of affordable essentials for the eyes, cheeks, lips, and brows in more than 3,000 CVS stores...

Fashion |Beauty

YSL Beauty expands rewilding initiative

French luxury cosmetics brand YSL Beauty has announced two new rewilding projects in partnership with global non-government organisation Re:Wild as part of its ongoing commitment to help nature return to its wild state. Due to climate change and extensive human utilisation of nature’s surfaces, the wild is in decline, with almost 75 percent of...

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Frédéric Malle is exiting his fragrance brand Editions de Parfums

Fragrance purveyor Frédéric Malle is exiting his brand Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle by the end of June 2024. A pioneer of niche perfumes, Mr. Malle began his brand a quarter of a century ago, collaborating with designers such as Dries Van Noten and Acne to create sensory art, referring to perfume as “the mirror of your soul.” Not a...

Business

L’Oréal records strong Q1 results

First quarter sales of 11.24 billion euros, increased 9.4 percent like-for-like and 8.3 percent reported at L’Oréal. The company’s adjusted like-for-like growth was 8.1 percent. Commenting on the figures, Nicolas Hieronimus, CEO of L'Oréal, said in a statement: “2024 is off to a very good start with like-for-like growth of 9.4 percent,...

Fashion |Beauty Featured

Charlotte Tilbury unveils debut fragrance collection

Celebrity make-up artist and entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury is expanding her beauty and skincare empire with a debut collection of fragrances developed with master perfumers at flavours and fragrance company IFF and backed by neuroscience. The six new fragrances are powered by emotion-boosting molecules, designed to unlock a range of emotions,...

Business

Douglas Group reduces net debt, Q2 sales up 11.5 percent

Omni-channel beauty retailer Douglas Group has secured a new refinancing of 1.3 billion euros. Following its listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange at the end of March, the company had used the proceeds and a capital injection to partially prepay an existing facilities agreement amounting to 675 million euros. With the fresh financing, the...

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Sephora names Xia Ding as managing director of Greater China

Beauty retailer Sephora has appointed Xia Ding as the managing director of Greater China. Based in Shanghai, Ding will directly report to Asia president, Alia Gogi. Prior to Sephora, she spent five years as vice president & general manager of e-commerce Asia Pacific and Latin America at Nike. Commenting on Ding’s appointment, Gogi said in a...