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Business News explains the commerce behind cosmetics: who owns a brand, which laboratory produces the formula, what a retailer takes, and how much of a price is packaging and marketing. Coverage follows acquisitions, funding and sales results. Best used by readers curious what they are actually buying.
Beauty as a business: acquisitions, retailer relationships, contract manufacturers, markups and the sales figures behind a suddenly unavoidable product.
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Why Beauty Brands Face a Wave of FDA Renewal Deadlines in 2026
The two-year registration clock created by a 2022 cosmetics law is now coming due, and the FDA's own numbers show how much of the industry is still catching up.
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e.l.f. Just Raised Its Outlook Again: rhode Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
Net sales jumped 36 percent to $479.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, and Hailey Bieber's brand is a bigger part of the story than the price tag suggested.
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Paris Couture Week's Big Surprise: It Got Wearable, and So Did the Beauty
The fall/winter 2026-2027 couture shows leaned toward clothes, and faces, you could actually imagine living in, according to AP's read on the week.
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A Heat Wave Is Reshaping Paris Men's Fashion Week, and Its Beauty With It
With record temperatures over the city, houses are moving showtimes and makeup artists are working against sweat, SPF, and a melting runway.
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Ulta Just Posted a Blowout Quarter: What Shoppers Should Know
Comparable sales climbed 5.3 percent and the retailer raised its profit forecast, a sign of where mass and prestige beauty demand actually sits.
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Met Gala 2026: What the 'Costume Art' Theme Says About Beauty
This year's gala celebrated an exhibition about the dressed body, and its red-carpet logic of ornament as art maps directly onto makeup.
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Henkel Is Buying Olaplex for $1.4 Billion: What It Means for Your Hair
The bond-repair brand that turned a salon ingredient into a household name is joining a German consumer giant, and regular buyers will notice the difference slowly, if at all.
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Matthieu Blazy's First Chanel Show: Why a New Designer Touches Beauty Too
The most anticipated ready-to-wear debut of the Paris season has landed, and the ripple effects reach well past the clothes into makeup and fragrance.
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Kering's 2025 Results and the Gucci Beauty Shake-Up, Explained
Gucci's owner reported a much smaller 2025 profit, and its beauty arm is about to change hands, which matters for fragrance and makeup counters.