Fundamental Brands To Acquire $31M Fragrance License Holder For Ellen Tracy, Mustang And More
Fundamental Brands is acquiring Great American Beauty, the fragrance license holder for brands including Ellen Tracy, IZOD, Ford Mustang and Caribbean Joe in a deal adding approximately $31 million in sales to its portfolio. Together with Great...
What Happens When Brand DNA Erodes
In beauty, brand DNA is simultaneously the most valuable and most fragile asset, yet history proves it can erode easily. After buying the trademarks for Juice Beauty in 2005, I built the brand from scratch, obsessively protecting its...
What’s Next For May Lindstrom Skin: Fragrance And Retail Growth After Investment
After a four-year hiatus to focus on direct-to-consumer distribution, May Lindstrom Skin resumed retail two years ago and is now building on that momentum with a broader store presence and its...
The Anti-Rhode Road To Building A Clean Beauty Brand That Lasts
For all the handwringing over the death of “clean beauty,” a number of brands early to the category are still plugging away more than a decade after it became part of the beauty industry lexicon,
Ipsy’s Fundraise, Stories & Ink’s Round, Susan Yara’s Playa Play And More Indie Beauty Dish
Stories & Ink, the tattoo aftercare brand founded by Stu Jolley as The Others in 2018, has raised roughly $1.8 million at an $11.2 million pre-money valuation as it sharpens its focus on Amazon and...
