Amazon and Walmart’s digital storefronts comprise almost half US e-Commerce sales for beauty and personal care products, making it increasingly important that B2B manufacturers and suppliers to these industries understand how to navigate ingredient formulation...
Amazon has long been an e-commerce goliath but as it edges deeper into beauty, brands should take note, especially given its model offers a lot of what today’s consumer wants, an expert says.
Retail major Walgreens Boots Alliance has unveiled a series of UK high street investments in recent months, but focus and investment must now be directed towards e-commerce if the retailer wants to remain competitive, says an expert.
European color cosmetics brand Catrice Cosmetics has announced a shake-up to its retail strategy for 2022, with the company focusing on making it products available only through its own website and via Amazon.
E-commerce will continue its insatiable rise over the next five years in beauty, with pureplay online retailers like Alibaba, Amazon and JD.com set to bolster significant growth and brand-retailer collaborations to prove key, says an expert.
Digital retail moguls Alibaba and Amazon will grasp the lion’s share of a burgeoning online health and beauty category over the next five years, and brands must seriously consider shifting onto these platforms, says a retail expert.
Natura & Co has finalised its Avon acquisition, creating a global pure-play beauty giant and direct-to-consumer leader – a mega-business it wants to use to fight the climate crisis, champion cruelty-free, female empowerment and local communities.
E-commerce giant Amazon has clear ambitions to rise fast in the beauty world which creates plenty of opportunities online and offline for brands in the category, says a retail expert.
Biozer, a Brazilian cosmetics player from the Amazon region, has secured Halal certification for its Simbioze Amazonica range and is about to start shipping to countries in the Middle East.
Amazon is where most European women shop online for cosmetics and these shoppers place high value on user-generated content to make final purchase decisions, a report finds.
Online retail giants Amazon and eBay have pulled several illegal skin lightening creams containing mercury sold in the UK, Belgium and US following investigative findings from international NGO coalition The Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG).
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Born This Way pop icon Lady Gaga will launch Haus Laboratories exclusively on Amazon next month, a move that has generated considerable buzz in the beauty world. So, is this e-commerce strategy a smart one to follow?
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