Prime Matter Labs Acquires Troubled Contract Manufacturer Mana Products
Monogram Capital-backed Prime Matter Labs has acquired struggling makeup contract manufacturer Mana Products from Traub Capital. The acquisition marks the end of a difficult chapter for Mana Products, which furloughed employees and explored...
What Saks’ Bankruptcy Exposes About Luxury Beauty Distribution
After 150-plus years, Saks Fifth Avenue’s house has crumbled, leaving luxury beauty brands that depended on it for positioning and distribution in a precarious position. The luxury department store has filed for Chapter...
Skyn Iceland Restages Under Amerikas With A Renewed Focus On Icelandic Inspiration And Science
Over almost 13 years of guiding European brands like Nuxe, Bioderma and Embryolisse in the United States, distributor Amerikas has developed a keen understanding of what it takes to sell beauty products to Americans, and it often...
How Squigs Is Finding Its Footing Again After The Palisades Fire Destroyed Its Founder’s Home
In search of calm, community and nature, Squigs founder Nikita Charuza, her husband and three-year-old daughter moved to the Pacific Palisades from New York just eight months before devastating wildfires descended on Jan. 7 last year, setting over...
Dua By AB Science And The High-Stakes Gamble Of Diffusion Brands
Economic fragility, changing generational spending patterns and a deepening consumer belief that higher-priced beauty products don’t deliver meaningfully better performance than cheaper alternatives are pushing beauty companies to experiment with secondary brands to expand their market presence while...
