Ulta Beauty’s Kecia Steelman on expanding the retailer's reach: ‘We’re creating this new ecosystem’
With roles at Target, The Home Depot, Family Dollar and now Ulta Beauty, Kecia Steelman, Ulta Beauty chief operating officer, can legitimately affirm, “Retail is in my DNA." “Life has [come] full circ...
18 Nov 202128min
Sephora's Carolyn Bojanowski: Convenience is the ultimate luxury
When Carolyn Bojanowski, svp and gm of e-commerce at Sephora, joined the retailer team in 2005, it was an opportunity to pay homage to her childhood as the daughter of a candy buyer. In her mind, Seph...
11 Nov 202133min
Tula CEO Savannah Sachs on ‘the intersection of clean and clinical’ in skin care
Clean or effective? It's a question that the beauty industry has tried to tackle for the last decade. For Tula, a probiotic-based, skin-care brand, it has attempted to combine its doctor-founded, sci...
4 Nov 202133min
True Botanicals CMO Rebecca Boston on rebranding clean beauty as 'sensual'
True Botanicals chief marketing officer Rebecca Boston‘s work in the fashion industry led her to beauty, and then, specifically, clean skin care. Boston was motivated to take the True Botanicals role ...
28 Okt 202136min
Malin+Goetz's founders say success is a balance between expediency and exclusivity
While emerging from a decade dominated by sans-serif typeface and millennial pink, it may be hard to remember a time when an ode to simplicity could make a brand stand out. But when Malin+Goetz, a nat...
21 Okt 202138min
Kreyol Essence's Yve-Car Momperousse on creating a hair-care brand that's also a 'social impact business'
For many people, a bad hair day would result in a few shed tears and some variation of a head covering. However in the case of Yve-Car Momperousse, CEO and co-founder of Kreyol Essence, a beauty brand...
14 Okt 202140min
KNC Beauty’s Kristen Noel Crawley on being a founder: It's ‘not what you see on Instagram’
Kristen Noel Crawley, KNC Beauty founder, knows that it takes more than being a “lover of skincare” to become a successful beauty brand founder. The launch of the Black-owned brand in 2016 was “a natu...
7 Okt 202129min
Firmenich's Ilaria Resta: Driving innovation is 'crucial' to the fragrance industry
Covid forced social activities, like bar crawls and date nights, to go on hiatus, or move to Zoom. So the fact that fragrance sales increased by 82% in the first half of 2021, compared to the same tim...
30 Sep 202123min
