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Prisma Ventures fund participants will have access to Ulta Beauty’s innovation team, consumer insights and in-market testing opportunities.

Ulta Beauty Launches Prisma Ventures Fund for Emerging Retail Tech

Fund participants will have access to Ulta Beauty’s innovation team, consumer insights and in-market testing opportunities.

Glossier recently launched its new permanent store in Miami, Florida.

Report: Glossier Lays Off Nearly 2 Dozen Employees

Glossier is preparing for more retail locations, including in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, as well as Washington, DC.

Brands will be eligible to receive a $25,000 equity investment from a donor-advised fund managed by the Austin Community Foundation, with proceeds benefiting Whole Foods Market’s private operating foundations.

Whole Foods Announces First Cohort of Brands in Local and Emerging Accelerator Program

The 12-week program will provide mentorship, education and the potential for financial support to promote business growth to up-and-coming brands across the United States.

Thanks to this combination of effortless content discovery and the channel’s easily digestible, short-form video format, TikTok has become an incredibly useful tool for brands seeking to capture new market share, and the cosmetic industry, specifically, has a lot to capitalize on here.

3 Ways Beauty Brands Can Shine on Tik Tok

With its combination of effortless content discovery and easily digestible, short-form video format, Tik Tok has become an incredibly useful tool for brands seeking to capture new market share.

The Sigma X Sephora SigMagic Brushampoo and the Sigma X Sephora Brush Cleaning Mat are designed to give brushes a deep, gentle clean.

Sigma Beauty Expands with Amazon and Sephora

Sigma Beauty has launched two products in collaboration with Sephora while expanding its footprint to the European market with Amazon.

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Is Your Brand Being Targeted By Online Counterfeiters? [Free Brand Scan]

As online marketplaces become increasingly popular for consumers to purchase cosmetics, the threat of counterfeiting also increases. Learn how SIPI’s online monitoring services can stop counterfeiters in their tracks.

L’Oréal reported that 2022 first-half net profits excluding nonrecurring items came in at €3.25 billion, up from €2.6 billion in the same period last year.

L’Oréal’s Sales and Profits Surge in First Half of 2022

L’Oréal credits strong performance across all of its divisions and regions for its double-digit sales growth and profitability in the first half of 2022.

One of the minds behind the Allure store will take the stage to discuss beauty retail's future.

Allure Store x Solawave Coming to Beauty Accelerate

Sonny Gindi of Stour/Allure Store will share the stage with Solawave founders Andrew Silberstein and Eli Bailey to discuss the state of beauty retail/distribution post-pandemic and what's driving growth.

As shoppers return to stores, e-commerce beauty sales have fallen; photo by Tim Mossholder at Unsplash.

Online Beauty Sales Tumble 14%

A new report attributes the sales drop to the end of the pandemic lockdown and masking, prompting consumers to return to brick-and-mortar stores.

Ulta Beauty at Target is expanding its fragrance offerings a mid a category boom.

Ulta Beauty at Target Adds Fragrance Brands Coach, Clinique, Ariana Grande and More

The brands will be offered at more than 200 U.S. Target locations.

Gucci created a Gucci Garden Experience on Roblox offering virtual “digital twins” of its products during the pandemic.

Beauty Brands Can Lead the Way to the Metaverse

The ultimate vision for the metaverse isn’t quite here yet but we’re already seeing examples of digital spaces that blur the lines between real and virtual living.

Smashbox UK has announced it will no longer accept orders in the United Kingdom and Ireland beginning September 29, 2022.

Smashbox, Glam Glow UK to No Longer Accept Orders as of September 2022

The brands, both owned by Estée Lauder, cited "an accumulation of challenges" that has been more than they can withstand as the reason for stopping future orders.

Amazon's Prime Day 2022 event counted beauty brands among its top sellers.

Beauty Booms During Amazon Prime Days 2022

Key participating brands included Haus Laboratories, InstaNatural, Mighty Patch and Nyx.

With the help of commercetools, Sephora will be able to more flexibly and cost-effectively accelerate new digital experiences and enhanced e-commerce functionalities.

Sephora x Commercetools Partnership

As Sephora looks to the future of its business, it is aiming to unify its in-store and online shopping experiences for customers, bolster omnichannel offerings and increase personalization throughout its digital experiences.

Sunday II Sunday is one of the 12 brands new to Ulta Beauty at Target.

Ulta Beauty at Target Expands Brand Offerings

Twelve new brands are now being offered at Ulta Beauty at Target.

The transaction is subject to clearance by relevant authorities, including anti-trust authorities.

Sephora Leaving Russia

Sephora has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of the shares of its subsidiary in Russia to its local general manager.

According to Retail Times, Lush's store growth is to accommodate new concepts while still remaining committed to brick-and-mortar.

Report: Lush Investing £7.6M for Retail Expansion

Its largest shop in Ireland in the Dundrum Town Centre will be opening later this year.

The Skin Care Center format is now in select CVS Pharmacy locations in New York, New York; Woodland Hills, California and Walnut Creek, California.

CVS Enters Prestige Beauty with Skin Care Center

CVS Pharmacy has also launched a pilot program with Revieve to offer skin diagnostic and make-up virtual try-on experiences.