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21 Dec

P&G Beauty Creates Recent Specialty Beauty Division – WWD

P&G is officially diving back into the high-end beauty pool. The patron products giant announced it has created a latest division, Specialty Beauty, that can include brands that operate in specialty and/or prestige retail channels across brick-and-mortar and direct-to-consumer. That features the three brands P&G snapped up in late 2021 for greater than $1 billion — the skincare lines, Farmacy and Tula Skincare, and hair care business, Ouai, in addition to First Aid Beauty, which it bought in 2018. Most of the brands that P&G has incubated in-house, including See Me Beauty, skincare targeting women over 50, and Keep It Anchored, a clinically proven hair care range supporting hair retention, may also be housed in the brand new division, and SK-II’s North...
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25 Jun

Ouai’s Colin Walsh Named CEO of P&G’s Specialty Beauty

Changes are afoot at Procter & Gamble. Colin Walsh, chief executive officer of Jen Atkin-founded hair care brand Ouai, has been appointed head of the private care giant’s Specialty Beauty division. Walsh has been CEO of Ouai for near five years, during which he oversaw it being acquired by P&G in 2021. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Devacurl. He succeeds Chris Heiert, a P&G veteran, who will retire in July after almost 25 years at the corporate. “Chris’ decades-long contributions to P&G Beauty are simply remarkable, and I’m especially grateful for his leadership these past 18 months to successfully bring together our Specialty brands,” said Alex Keith, CEO of P&G Beauty. “I’m likewise thrilled for Colin to tackle an even bigger...
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