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Why health, fitness and beauty brands are getting real (and funny)

Inside Retail

Health, fitness and beauty. A simple image search for health and fitness reveals screeds of bronzed, impossibly-toned bodies, paired with motivational slogans encouraging people to try harder, reach further, strive, dominate, or ‘just do it’. We’re seeing a similar shift in the beauty industry.

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Space NK Unveils Largest Store in Portfolio with Upgraded Westfield London Location

Retail Focus

Space NK has revealed a newly expanded store, which is the largest in the company’s portfolio, and four times the size of its original location at Westfield London in White City. The Space NK Westfield London store will have two skincare treatment rooms, providing facials by expert therapists.

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Why the rise of animal-based skincare could signal the end of vegan beauty

Inside Retail

Vegan beauty has quickly become the industry standard in recent years but the rise in popularity of animal-based skincare hints at a shift in consumer behaviour. Now sheep wax and milk protein, along with other animal-based products, are readily available on pharmacy shelves and beauty counters branded as organic and natural alternatives.

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Chemist Warehouse is eying the beauty sector. Should Priceline be worried?

Inside Retail

Additionally, Chemist Warehouse unveiled its store-within-a-store luxe beauty concept Ultra Beauty in June, indicating a much larger focus on the beauty sector and potentially a more competitive environment for both retailers in the future. . Priceline is very much centred around beauty,” Mortimer told Inside Retail.

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Wesfarmers bid to pick up Priceline owner API in health play succeeds

Inside Retail

Wesfarmers will acquire 100 per cent of Priceline Pharmacy-owner Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, signaling the retail conglomerate’s entrance into the wellness space. According to Wesfarmers, the aim of the buy-up is to enable the conglomerate to enter the “growing health, wellbeing and beauty sector”.

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What Cosmetique’s IPO says about the booming beauty services industry

Inside Retail

The beauty service chain is looking to cash in on a long-held economic theory in retail, dubbed the ‘lipstick effect’, that in times of economic hardship, consumer spending on beauty and feel-good services remains strong. Cosmetic surgical services were part of Cosmetique’s customer offering until it discontinued them in December 2019.

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New Balance bottles its scent and enters the beauty space with Grey Store

Inside Retail

New Balance has entered the beauty market in celebration of opening a premium direct-to-consumer retail store in Australia this December and it smells like luxury on and off the court for the apparel brand. The post New Balance bottles its scent and enters the beauty space with Grey Store appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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