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Is 2021 the year the industry address the broken color cosmetics business model? How do we fix? Questionable ingredients sourcing, Overproduction of un-recyclable packaging, Homogenous products, Marketing the Marketing, Retails Renaissance, The post-pandemic consumer And still be able to meet the beauty needs of woman today? This month’s panel Gillian Gorman, CEO at Kjaer Weis Ross Beagrie, Commer...

12 months ago, who would have predicted that the next celebrity exposé would be ‘germ confessions’ Take Stella McCartney, Brad Pitt & Mila Kunis as just a few examples out there in social media land. Indeed, some industry experts believe that exposing oneself to extra dirt and germs can strengthen, not harm the individual’s overall health and wellbeing. This month’s panel of germ experts. Harlald ...

Vegan beauty has a clear definition – No animal ingredients included within the product formula.   The category dismissed by the big players within the industry for many years. But championed throughout the ‘The Teens’ by the ‘FOMO’ Instagram obsessed Millennials. Has now become the standard requirement across cosmetics and personal care products for a Gen Z purchase. As the category begins to sca...

Does the misquoted 1990’s business mantra ‘if you build it, they will come’ have agency for the global beauty retailing industry in 2021? Or in fact, is beauty retailing ‘the elephant in the room’? What learnings have the key global players taken from ‘2020’s COVID Shock Year’ and transformed into new business models? Which companies are playing digital catchup? Which companies are doing it well?...

In 2021 the business case for gender equality, diversity, and inclusion is strong and growing stronger. Indeed, political activism has become the new business currency! Especially in the beauty space where many brands have ditched gendered marketing and opted for more inclusive messaging. But what about the actual product? Let’s face it everyone has skin! Is defining product, product category & br...

Consumer behavior has shifted dramatically over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brand switching, online shopping, and experimentation with new digital shopping methods have become the new-norm.  This month’s panel: Angela Cretu, CEO at Avon Fernanda Scozzafave Executive Director, Marketing Intelligence and Analytics at Avon Katherine Theobald Managing Director at Accenture Interactive Irina B...

Across the media landscape, LGBTQ inclusion is expanding every day, but not in advertising. A 2020  report  by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found only 1.8% of characters in ads from the annual Cannes Lions festival were LGBTQ. And research conducted in 2021 with 200 senior marketing and advertising professionals found executives recognize LGBTQ inclusion as a force for positive soc...

Will 2021 be the year that the indie pioneered ‘Clean Beauty movement’ grows-up? Covid has undoubtedly propelled 'Wellness' to the top of consumer minds. An industry that is now worth US$1.5 trillion globally with an annual growth rate of 5 to 10 percent. As the cosmetic industry prepares for an increase in both the purchase of product and services. How can the clean beauty movement protect its in...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has done much to widen the gender equality gap, across society and the workplace. But as economies start to tentatively open-up and the dust begins to settle, what role could the beauty industry play in supporting, and accelerating, gender equality? Find out more in the second episode of P&G Beauty mini-series in which we discuss some of the global issues impacting th...

Consumer behavior has changed: it’s a truism of COVID-19 People now want to buy from, work for, talk about and partner with companies that deliver bold solutions for both human-kind and planet-kind. So how can a global beauty brand transform its business model to meet the expectations of the post-covid conscious consumer? This month’s panel: Joanna Gluzman Director CSR and Sustainability at Avon C...

2020’s global pandemic presented the tactile and hospitality-focused professional beauty sector with a never-before-seen dilemma, complete closure of salons and spas. Despite these challenges’ brands, salon & spa owners as well as their employees have showed admirable displays of agility. However, with a global recession looming and consumer buying habits changing fast: how can the professional be...

2020’s social justice movement called for businesses and brands to take meaningful steps in the support of racial equality. So how in 2021 does the beauty industry build a roadmap that challenges brands to be more integrated, deliberate, and inclusive across their operations? Find out more in the first episode of this mini-series in which we discuss some of the global issues impacting the beauty i...

By 2025, there will be over 1 billion women experiencing menopause globally Yet this universal female experience, that challenges both the physical and emotional wellbeing of half the world’s population from anywhere between 2 to 10 years is massively underdiscussed, underresearched and underprovided for. So how does the cosmetics industry bridge this global information gap and start a conversatio...

With wellness at the top of consumers mind in a post-Covid world, CBD Beauty’s global growth potential is likely to accelerate, but how does this newly legalised ingredient manage the growing pains of oversupply, consumer perception, regulation, efficacy and standardisation? This months panel  Stephen Murphy - Co-Founder at Prohibition Partners  Alexis Abraham - CEO at Cellular Goods  Alexia Blake...

At the beginning of 2020 the travel retail distribution channel represented one-third of revenues for some traditional beauty brands  The global pandemic exposed the beauty industries over-reliance on this sector that had been a ‘growth winner’ for years  With many traditional retailers doors still shut what should/could the post-pandemic travel retail experience look like?  This months panel  Nic...

2020 asked us all to ReThink the way we live our lives For the cosmetics industry People, Product, Plant became the matra  Greenwashing the exposé  Sustainable the direction  This months panel Mallory Huron - Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops  Samir Lakhani - Founder  of Eco Soap Bank Jo-Anne Chidley - Founder at Beauty Kitchen UK  Discussed how to ReThink - Sustainable Beauty

This season we will be discussing how to ReThink the cosmetics industry 2020 ripped up the business rule book, exposed social, financial, cultural and environmental cracks in its systems And presented business with an unprecedented opportunity to re-examine and radically transform itself!  This months panel Mallory Huron  Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops  Antoinette van den Berg Fonder of The Lady...

In this months episode the panel review the external factors that have challenged the cosmetics industry throughout 2020 and the lessons if any that have been learned along the way…. Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publishing Director who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Nicole Fall Founder at Asia Consumer Intelligence Amarjit Sahota Founder and President at Ecov...

in-conversation with  - a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publisher who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Nicole Fall - Founder at Asia Consumer Intelligence Amarjit Sahota Founder...

in-conversation with a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Siobhan Murphy,  Publisher at Global Cosmetics News who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Jay Tiesman  Research Fellow  at P&G Larry Wiess Founder at Symbiome  
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in-conversation with  - a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publisher who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Nicole Fall - Founder at Asia Consumer Intelligence Bridey-Rae Lipscombe -...

in-conversation with … a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publisher who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Eyrca Freemantle  Founder at Embracing All Tones of Women Ltd , Kim Ford Glo...

in-conversation with … a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Georgina Caldwell, Global Cosmetics News Editor who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Amarjit Sahota Founder and President at Ecovia Intelligence Dominika Minarov...

in-conversation with … a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Georgina Caldwell, Global Cosmetics News Editor who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Cherie Buziak CEO/Founder  at BeautyEdge Joanne Bell Brand Insight and Conte...

in-conversation with … a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry. Hosted by Georgina Caldwell, Global Cosmetics News Editor who was joined in this episode by the following guest: Christopher Davis International Director of Corporate Social Responsibility...