Brand management and acquisition firm WHP Global has signed a licensing agreement with A. P. Deauville to launch Anne Klein Bath & Body. 

Demand for prestige beauty products in the UK continues to rocket and sales leapt 46% year-on-year in the last trading week to Christmas, The NPD Group’s latest figures show. Fragrance was the star gift performer.

Two of the world’s biggest private equity names are teaming up to bid for giant UK health & beauty retailer Boots. Bain Capital and CVC Capital have thrown their hats into the ring.

​Talking a good game on all-things sustainable is one thing. Proving you can walk the walk is another. So fast-expanding luxury beauty brand Rituals Cosmetics has announced it is now a ‘Certified B Corporation’. 

The Rocher group has recently appointed Jean-David Schwartz as managing director of its leading brand, Yves Rocher.

​Wilko is to close 15 stores in 2022, it announced on Tuesday. The value-focused general merchandise retailer that also sells beauty products has reviewed its store estate as a result of a number of leases ending.

​Selfridges Retail Limited has filed its full accounts for the year to the end of January 2021 and they show the devastation that the pandemic wreaked in what should have been another good year for the company.

​Walgreens Boots Alliance is upbeat as its first quarter beat expectations and it upgraded its full-year earnings guidance aided both by its US ops and a recovery in its UK unit.

U.S. consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble announced this week it has acquired luxury skincare brand Tula, as the company looks to bolster its prestige brands portfolio.  

P&G Beauty took its first step into the metaverse on Wednesday with the debut of its virtual storytelling world, BeautySphere.  

Chanel is gearing up for the launch this month of one of its most significant beauty lines yet as it mixes skincare with fragrance and make-up for the first time and adds in a strong sustainability element.

​Beauty shoppers may have been turning online both through choice and out of necessity during the pandemic, but shopping in physical stores remains their preferred way of buying beauty products, a new study shows.

Colgate-Palmolive India has said it is holding talks with its sales reps after they threatened to disrupt supplies in one of the country's most populous states and alleged they were being unfairly treated on pricing.

Korean beauty aggregator B2Link announced on Monday it has acquired skincare community app, Picky, as the Seoul-based company looks to bolster is global lineup of beauty brands.

Prickly pear, rice and flax are among the natural skin allies coming our way this year.

Having been one of the few pandemic success stories, a year on and Creightons is now having to come to terms with waning demand for its hygiene-based goods, leaving a big hole to fill in its sales column.