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Farmacy Founder David Chung Has A New Brand At Sephora And Growing Manufacturer Out To Transform The Supply Chain
Serial beauty entrepreneur David Chung is far from done with serial beauty entrepreneurship. After selling Sephora-native clean beauty brand Farmacy to Procter & Gamble in 2021, he’s back with another brand hitting Sephora, The Rootist, a...
Why Hum Nutrition Shifted To The Mass Market
Nearly a decade ago, digitally native Hum Nutrition was a central figure in a wave of ingestible brands that entered prestige beauty retail. Prestige beauty retailers wanted in on a skyrocketing wellness category and saw ingestible products...
Inspired By The Culture Of His Barbershop, Serial Entrepreneur Houston White’s Grooming Brand Could Reach $25M In Sales This Year
Shortly after Houston White established Fresh, a barbershop in the Camdentown neighborhood of Minneapolis, in 2007, he formulated a pomade for his clients that’s blossomed into Fresh by Houston White, an 11-product face, hair and body collection...
With $3.7M In Its Till, Made By Dentists Takes On Oral Care Incumbents
Not all dentists are content with the same-old stuff sold at stores for their patients’ teeth. Four hundred fifty of them made that clear last year when an investment firm they formed, Backed by Dentists, committed...
Sir Candle Man On The Brands And Trends He Thinks Are Fire
If you want to know what colognes will make you smell like a boss—Welton Iconic Amber Oud, Tom Ford Ébène Fumé, Parfums De Marly Haltane, Frederic Malle Promise and Marc-Antoine Barrois Ganymede (“It’s very CEO of a conglomerate!”)—or...
Manufacturer IPG Broadens Product Capabilities As Consumers View “Beauty In A Much More Holistic Way”
After working at companies like Bristol Myers Squibb and Bath & Body Works, where they met, Bob Goehrke and Tish Poling decided they wanted a change of scenery, literally and figuratively. They moved out of corporate jobs and...
