Clean beauty marketplace The Detox Market will expand into the Middle East through a partnership with luxury beauty omnichannel retailer Faces. The partnership was managed by the luxurious retailer and distributor Chalhoub Group, which operates an array of fashion and sweetness brands, in addition to retailers. 

For The Detox Market, which has six brick-and-mortar stores and an internet presence, the Middle East had been a key market the brand had been eyeing. 

“We’ve been expanding into the Middle East for quite a little bit of time,” said The Detox Market founder and chief executive officer Romain Gaillard. “We have now quite a little bit of traffic coming from that region, so we identified that there have been clearly some appetites from the consumers within the Middle East for clean beauty. The second part was that there was an actual lack of offering over there.” 

Gaillard noted clean beauty has not been offered in a big scale format within the Middle East the best way it has in other markets just like the U.S. After fascinated about scaling, Gaillard met with the Chalhoub Group and located they might be an optimal partner as they’d a “similar train of thought by way of what they desired to do with clean beauty,” he said. “The Chalhoub Group is clearly the most effective fitted to that kind of objective, essentially the most respected group relating to distribution, retail and partnerships in luxury within the Middle East.”

When it got here to partnering, the Chalhoub Group felt the clean beauty space was the right market to expand into, based on David Vercruysse, president of managed corporations at Chalhoub Group. “The wonder market within the Middle East is one in all the fastest growing on the planet,” Vercruysse said. “There is a big untapped opportunity.…It’s a market which is ready up for an incredible growth.” 

Based on Vercruysse, Chalhoub Group maintains greater than 50 percent of the sweetness market share within the Middle East, and due to this fact the group felt it was their responsibility to construct out the clean category. In doing this, The Detox Market will launch first on the Faces website after which will expand into brick-and-mortar locations within the second half of 2023 with a deal with the skincare category, based on Gaillard. 

As a part of the partnership, the brand will do selective brand launches on the location over time with an initial deal with the skincare category, with brands like True Botanicals and Odacité, to make sure they can properly introduce and educate consumers on their offerings. Chalhoub Group also plans to host online and offline activations in partnership with influencers to further The Detox Market’s presence within the Middle East. 

With this expansion, the Detox Market expects the Middle East market to be a multimillion-dollar opportunity, accounting for an estimated 10 percent of sales in 2023 and 15 to twenty percent of sales in 2024. The Detox Market also anticipates the revenue to double between the primary half and second half of 2023.