Retail
Jo Malone London has launched an AI-powered Scent Advisor, built with Google’s Gemini and Vertex AI, to digitally recreate personalized in-store fragrance consultations, enhance online shopping confidence, and advance Estée Lauder’s broader strategy of AI-driven consumer personalization.
PCPC and partners from government agencies, non-profits and social media influencers promote ‘Buy No Lie’ public awareness campaign to warn shoppers about dangerous counterfeit cosmetics and offer tips for safer online purchasing.
TikTok Shop’s US skin care sales reached $309m, with popular searches for Korean skin care and hyperpigmentation suggesting the types of products that are driving sales.
Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days revealed leading beauty brands and shifting consumer behaviors, with CeraVe, Nutrafol, Maybelline, and Lattafa topping their respective categories, according to beauty ecommerce agency Market Defense.
UB Marketplace, a curated platform integrated onto Ulta.com, allows retail giant Ulta Beauty Inc. to deliver ‘more newness, faster entry’ into emerging product subcategories and trends. The site is invite-only for brands.
Retailers selling beauty products in the state of Washington who plan to dispose of unpurchased products by Jan. 1 must follow the state's Dangerous Waste Reduction law, which categorizes waste generators as small, medium or large.
In its State of Beauty 2025 report, NielsenIQ says the beauty industry is ‘thriving’ with growth of 10% in the second quarter and digital sales globally up 19% for the 12-month period ended June 2025, versus in-store sales growth of 2%.
Attorneys in charge of advertising for healthcare and beauty product firms join IZEA Worldwide CEO in discussing impact influencers can have for brands and responsibilities marketers have for content they share during NAD conference.
LVMH-owned beauty retailer Sephora is the first prestige beauty retailer on the Uber Eats delivery platform after the two firms partner for same-day delivery of beauty in the US and Canada.
Ulta Beauty and Target Corp. announce August 14 they will not renew their shop-in-shop partnership when it concludes in August 2026.
Social platforms like TikTok Shop have “completely reshaped product discovery, creating a new shopping paradigm” for beauty and taking share from traditional beauty retailers, according to retail brand experience agency ChangeUp, Inc.
The expansion of Ulta Beauty in Target stores are paused for now as Ulta Beauty Inc. and Target Corp. “lean into” the 610 stores already established and consider how to drive efficiencies and leverage learnings, says new President and CEO Kecia Steelman.
Target’s Beauty division was its strongest business unit in fiscal 2024, nearly doubling in six years to reach $13.2bn on strong in-store presentation and digital support, the retailer says.
K-beauty (Korean beauty)’s success in US e-commerce in 2024 was independent of overall US market beauty growth, surging 63% year-over-year on average, according to Samsung Securities.
Ulta Beauty, Inc. CEO Dave Kimbell retires after 11 years with the beauty retailer and is replaced by president and chief operating officer Kecia Steelman, as a strong holiday sales period prompts the firm to update its fiscal fourth quarter projections.
The US prestige beauty market is approaching the holiday season with stronger sales momentum than it achieved the same time last year, despite ‘some pullback’ in spending throughout 2024. Industry experts predict how current trends/consumer sentiment may impact the critical fourth quarter.
Claire’s Holdings LLC, Sprout’s Farmers Markets and Walgreen Company are the latest US retailers to build on beauty and personal care store brands in response to growing consumer demand.
California authorities say predominance of retailers licensed to sell hemp are compliant with ban published effective on 3 October through emergency regulation. But hemp industry’s contesting the regulation in state court, arguing state authorities inappropriately used emergency action to change state law on hemp products legislature passed in 2021.
Accelerating new store openings and adding 6 million more loyalty members are among Ulta’s newly unveiled strategic priorities. At the firm’s 16 October Investor Day, the retailer reported it is lowering its long-term outlook to account for “normalization” of the US beauty market post-COVID and increasing prestige competition.
Jessica Spence joins as North American president while CFO Dan Sullivan becomes COO and Francesca Weissman, finance and business strategy SVP, adds CFO to her title in latest executive office changes by the marketer of brands including Schick men's and women’s shaving, Playtex, Stayfree, Carefree and o.b. feminine care and Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sun care.