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21 Apr

Skin Care M&A Slows Down – WWD

Skin Care M&A Slows Down – WWD
While beauty standards have modified significantly, if you happen to’re a skincare company hoping to be acquired by a strategic then you could be not less than an ideal 10. “I at all times say if there have been 10 boxes that needed to be checked to get a deal through an investment committee you could possibly get away with perhaps having eight of them. Now you may have to have 10 plus two more,” said Ashleigh Barker, a director at Lincoln International’s consumer group. “The standards and thresholds to get deals done — it’s just much higher now than it was.” Up to now 12 months or so, a clutch of skincare players got here to market that on paper make...
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21 Apr

Artists are calling out the gross corporate greed of

Artists are calling out the gross corporate greed of
The Cure’s Robert Smith recently convinced Ticketmaster to refund ‘unduly high’ fees to their fans – could this be the beginning of artists holding the ticket-selling giant to account? At present, you’d be hard-pressed to search out a music fan with any positive thoughts about Ticketmaster. While from two very different musical camps, The Cure’s Robert Smith and his goth army seem ready to hitch the Swifties in a battle against the ticketing giant as one other fan base burned by pricing. As tickets went on sale for the band’s US tour, prices were nearly doubled because of hefty service fees, facility charges and a processing fee. Despite purposefully setting their prices at an...
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21 Apr

The Beauty Industry’s 20 Most Iconic Eye Creams –

The Beauty Industry’s 20 Most Iconic Eye Creams –
They are saying beauty is within the eyes of the beholder. But within the eyes of the industry, it’s the cult followings and antiaging claims that make the category a bull’s eye by way of business. To find the highest products within the category, WWD Beauty Inc asked shy of 400 executives, founders, editors, financiers, retailers, chemists and influencers to share their favorite picks. Promised secrecy (the total list of those willing to be identified as electors appears on this story, though the content of their ballots stays confidential), the outcomes are a microcosm of the concerns and advantages that keep consumers coming back. Here, the in alphabetical order, the 20 most iconic eye products in beauty, as voted on by...
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21 Apr

Prada Group Ups Investments in Industrial Strategy, Sustainability

Prada Group Ups Investments in Industrial Strategy, Sustainability
VALVIGNA, Italy — A vertical industrial structure is nearly par for the course today in the posh industry, but Patrizio Bertelli, executive director of the Prada Group, on Thursday made a degree of letting reporters gathered at the corporate’s plant in Valvigna, Tuscany, know that he is just not jumping on the bandwagon — quite the opposite. In his usual feisty manner, Bertelli said that back within the ‘90s when he began constructing the network of plants that has grown in time to comprise 24 industrial facilities, of which 21 are in Italy, he was challenged by popular opinion. He recalled that he was told then that his strategy “didn't make sense, and folks wondered why I'd not simply turn to...
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