The Retail Roadmap: How Black Beauty Founders Are Getting

4 Dec

A Certified Financial Planner compares the cost and long-term investment potential Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… You’ve got the product. You’ve got the social media virality. Your direct-to-consumer sales prove people want it. But getting into retail? That’s where a lot of Black beauty founders hit a wall. Honestly, many don’t even know how to do it at all. And the path to major retail isn’t exactly advertised, so when you don’t have industry connections, it can feel impossible to even figure out who to talk to. On the bright side however, there are actual programs designed to get emerging brands onto shelves. Not enough people know about them. And if you’re a founder of color, that knowledge (or exposure) is even less. For...

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23 Dec

Bala Founders Discuss Wearable Wellness – WWD

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Beauty, Featured

Bala Founders Discuss Wearable Wellness – WWD

In 2020, the Bala bangles revolutionized the wearable wellness space, as consumers were searching for a convenient approach to get fit through the pandemic. With design on the forefront, the brand has continued to excite consumers by launching luxurious, elevated workout equipment. During WWD’s Wellness Forum last week, Bala founders and husband-and-wife duo Maximilian Kislevitz and Natalie Holloway sat down with senior beauty editor Kathryn Hopkins to debate the long run of the brand, and the important thing aspects behind its explosive growth. Since its launch in 2018, the corporate has continued to expand and diversify its product offerings, with design and functional fitness being top priorities. The unique Bala bangle was a classy update to traditional ankle and wrist weights. For...

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25 Aug

Beauty’s Most Powerful Founders – WWD

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Beauty, Featured

Sixteen of the brightest and best beauty founders are gathered together in a photograph studio in Midtown Manhattan for a Beauty Inc cover shoot and the first-day-of-school vibes are in full effect. There are shrieks of pleasure, hugs between long-lost friends, oohs and ahhs over outfits and a fast sharing of upcoming projects, before the group is named to order by the principal — on this case the photographer whose task is to shoot a category picture, so to talk. It’s no wonder that the room crackles with energy. That is probably the most dynamic group of founders the sweetness industry has seen because the OG indies back within the ’90s. They're connectors, a lot of whom had established careers out and...

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24 Jul

Where are so many Beauty Founders Departing Their Brands?

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

Where are so many Beauty Founders Departing Their Brands?

The wonder founder flight is picking up pace. While founder exits usually are not a latest phenomenon — and sometimes occur under essentially the most amiable of circumstances — a spate of exits in recent months raises questions as to simply what's fueling the trend. As a refresher: In January, Gregg Renfrew left her role as executive chair and chief brand officer at Beautycounter, the brand she launched in 2013 and sold to the Carlyle Group in 2021 in a deal that valued the corporate at $1 billion. Shortly after, Melisse Shaban exited her role as chief executive officer of hair care brand Virtue Labs. She transitioned as an alternative to an adviser role just because the brand raised a latest financing round...

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