Headline Ingredients Partner
Croda Personal Care
Website: https://www.crodapersonalcare.com/en-gb
We have a rich history of partnering with Independent brands to develop innovative and crative personal care solutions.
Offering a full range of cosmetic ingredients including Sederma's world leading actives, our experts can help with formulation development, claims substantiation, market analysis, and industry regulations. Our knowledge provides customers with immediate access to essential support for successful beauty and personal care product development and implementation. From lab scientists to product specialists and customer car agents, the Croda team is excited to offer their assistance.
Headline Logistics Partner
PFS
Website: https://www.pfscommerce.com/
Drawing upon 20+ years of experience and innovation in the industry, PFS, business unit of PFSweb, Inc., supports eCommerce fulfillment operations for both DTC and B2B channels. Brands and retailers across industry verticals (health and beauty, jewelry, CPG, apparel, footwear and government) look to PFS to provide brand-centric operations that effectively scale to support growing eCommerce demand.
Platinum Partners
Anchin
Website: https://www.anchin.com/
Whether you are starting out or well-established, Anchin’s Beauty, Health & Wellness group has the experience and industry knowledge to add meaningful value to your business, guiding you through each stage of growth, from venture capital to private equity to an ultimate exit or succession plan. Led by Megan Klingbeil ([email protected]) and Carolyn Sekosan ([email protected]), our group takes many complicated issues off your plate so you can focus on growth and operations. Our services go beyond the traditional accounting and tax functions. Find out more at www.anchin.com and follow us on Instagram at @anchinbeautyandwellness.
Beauty Barrage
Website: https://www.beautybarrage.com/
At Beauty Barrage, we understand the demands facing beauty brands at retail and the challenge of limited resources to support their distribution strategy.
Our team of beauty advisors, trainers, and managers treats your brand as if it was our own. With over 300+ beauty professionals servicing over 3000+ doors in the U.S. and Canada, we help minimize your investment and maximize your sales return. Best of all, you don’t have to worry about all that comes with managing employees. Our full-service team manages all sales activities while training, planning, and nurturing in-store retailer relationships.
Named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in America, we understand what it takes to scale rapidly. We are also a certified Nationally Recognized Minority Business Enterprise, proudly creating jobs (not gigs) for people across the country.
Our best in class services have received recognition and honors from some of the most respected authorities in business.
Lubrizol
Website: https://www.lubrizol.com/
The Beauty business team at Lubrizol Life Science partners with customers to develop, manufacture and market a broad range of differentiated ingredients and formulations for skin care, hair care and skin cleansing. Our innovative solutions enhance functional performance and deliver aesthetic benefits that help people to live a more beautiful life. The Accelerator program accelerates innovation by promoting turn-key growth-enabled partnerships with brands that utilize Lubrizol technology and expertise, external partners and flexible business models to deliver new and exciting shelf-ready products to the market.
Luminize
Website: https://luminizemarketing.com/
Luminize Marketing specializes in growing health and beauty brands on Amazon through our Distribution Model or Marketplace Partner Management Model. Our customized marketing strategies focus on maximizing brand protection, advertising management, inventory management, listing optimization, and healthy margins. We provide Best in Class services for both partnership models, and we're committed to helping our clients succeed. Luminize is considered the Top 5 Sellers by volume in the US, grossing over 150MM. Contact us today to learn how we can help grow your brand on Amazon.
Moelis & Company
Website: https://www.moelis.com/
Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 23 locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com.
Moss Adams
Website: https://www.mossadams.com/home
Moss Adams is a fully integrated professional services firm dedicated to personally assisting clients with growing, managing, and protecting prosperity.
With more than 3,400 professionals across over 25 locations in the West and beyond, we work with many of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders.
QuickBox
Website: https://www.quickbox.com/
QuickBox revolutionizes e-commerce fulfillment using innovative reporting technology, a committed client services team, and superior order processing skills. With fulfillment centers in Carson, CA, Denver, CO, Atlanta, GA, and Wayne, NJ, QuickBox allows your brand to reach customers quickly, reducing inventory errors and shipping delays. Our locations offer tailor-made warehousing solutions, ensuring reliable and economical order fulfillment, inventory management, and shipping. Expect enhanced productivity and streamlined operations with QuickBox.
Gold Partners
Acquire Beauty
Website: www.acquirebeauty.com
Acquire Beauty is your Supply Chain and Operations consulting partner, dedicated to uncovering hidden challenges and drive transformative solutions. Our firm offers a highly customized approach to our services, working with brands at all stages of their journey. Our clients include inspiring beauty brand owners, Venture Capitals, Private Equities, Existing Brand Owners, and C-Level Executives. Through our strategic interventions, we've facilitated substantial savings, increased sales, and cost reductions for our clients.
We specialize in implementing processes for improved profitability while maintaining flexibility for growth. Our focus is creating less risk, being more reactive, and providing problem-solving solutions. Our expertise spans various areas, including market expansion, process optimization, and brand creation. Our account management team is comprised of individuals who have worked in the beauty industry and can relate to the challenges our clients face. Whether you need to outsource your supply chain operations, create a plan to fix issues, or execute that plan, we offer solutions tailored to your needs. Our goal is to empower our clients, guiding them towards a self-sufficient and successful future.
BigCommerce
Website: www.bigcommerce.com
BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) is a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of all sizes to build, innovate and grow their businesses online. As a leading open SaaS solution, BigCommerce provides merchants sophisticated enterprise-grade functionality, customization and performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Tens of thousands of B2B and B2C companies across 120 countries and numerous industries use BigCommerce to create beautiful, engaging online stores, including Ben & Jerry’s, Skullcandy and Sony. Headquartered in Austin, BigCommerce has offices in San Francisco, Sydney and London.
Catch
Website: https://www.getcatch.com/
Catch helps modern beauty brands retain and engage the next generation of shoppers, right at checkout. With Catch, brands turn payment processing fees into instant, tangible rewards that drive customer loyalty and increase LTV by 45%.
Cosmos Labs
Website: https://www.cosmos-labs.com/
Cosmos Labs was founded in 2021 by serial beauty entrepreneur Mary Berry - who has developed over 1,000 groundbreaking beauty products. Mary's formulas use the most premium ingredients available, and have won numerous industry awards. At Cosmos Labs, Mary specializes in the formulation and manufacture of natural deodorant, facial and skin care, but as a lover of all things beauty - Mary is able to bring any new concept to life.
dsm-firmenich
Website: dsm-firmenich.com
DSM is a pioneer in the use of vitamins in cosmetics, leaders in UV protection, and the creators of award-winning cosmetic peptide & bioactive technology. We partner with the many of the world’s leading beauty companies in their creation of products that deliver consumer-perceivable benefits for skin, sun and hair care.
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at DSM.
We believe that everything that we do daily has an effect, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. A strong focus on sustainability means that we are actively creating and maintaining the conditions under which people and nature can exist in harmony to support present and future generations. Ingredient suppliers have an obligation to address the full scope of sustainability and take tangible action in building sustainable practices. And we must do so while also addressing the health and wellbeing of consumers. DSM invites brands and manufacturers to partner with us to create a better future for all.
We are proud to have received a Platinum rating from EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings.
eComplete
Website: https://www.ecomplete.com/
eComplete is an eCommerce growth partner, and capital investor. We accelerate and transform eCommerce DTC brands.
As an eCommerce accelerator, our primary goal is to deliver rapid commercial impact. To achieve this, we utilise our in-house data platform to prioritise eCommerce growth strategies and offer brands access to talented professionals across every eCommerce discipline. Additionally, we provide a supply chain that is typically only accessible to the largest eCommerce giants, enabling brands to scale and succeed.
Our mission is to support eCommerce businesses by providing them with eCommerce acceleration strategies that integrate with their existing infrastructure. We are here to disrupt the traditional barriers to scale that eCommerce businesses commonly encounter.
At eComplete, we also have an in-house investment arm. We invest in high-growth potential eCommerce brands, such as CurrentBody, which joined our investment portfolio in 2021.
Giannuzzi Lewendon
Website: www.gllaw.us
Giannuzzi Lewendon is a New York and California-based law firm dedicated exclusively to the CPG community, with a passion for protecting and propelling founders, and with over $20 billion in sell-side exit transactions closed.
Humble Growth
Website: www.humblegrowth.com
Humble Growth is a New York-based private equity fund in search of disruptive beauty and personal care brands that change the way we feel and live. Backed by exited founders and industry icons, our greatest asset is our experience.
Ithos Global
Website: https://ithosglobal.com/
Managing Regulatory Compliance and Product Safety Knowledge is our core approach to helping companies manage Quality, Risk & Compliance and thereby increase rewards. With a focus on Cosmetic industries, Ithos develops and integrates enterprise software solutions that help strengthen supply chain transparency over ingredients, streamline managing supplier quality and risk, and provide fast and easy access to regulatory restrictions and product safety guidelines from across the globe.
Odore
Website: www.odore.com
Odore is the leading digital sampling platform that helps elevate customer relationships and accelerate brand growth. Trusted by LVMH, L’Oreal, Shiseido and many more, Odore helps brands execute hyper-targeted sampling campaigns, enrich their CRM databases with invaluable first-party data, and generate authentic customer reviews all while driving product sales.
With a focus on ROI and a commitment to out-of-the-box solutions, Odore stands as your 360’ partner, committed to redefining customer engagement and driving tangible outcomes for brands globally.
Rosenthal & Rosenthal
Website: https://www.rosenthalinc.com/
Rosenthal & Rosenthal (www.rosenthalinc.com) is the leading factoring, asset based lending, purchase order financing, d2c and e-commerce inventory financing firm in the United States, specializing in beauty & personal care, wellness, fashion, furniture & home goods, food & beverage and d2c sectors. Rosenthal’s clients benefit from a range of credit and financing solutions that either stand on their own or can be paired with existing funding, long-term venture debt or equity capital to support rapid growth, without regulatory restrictions of a bank.
In business for more than 85 years, our firm is now led by the third generation of the Rosenthal family. Over the years, we have financed countless growing businesses by providing the working capital and financial resources they need and taking an active interest in their success.
Our clients benefit from the fact that we’re still a private, family-run business. They know us by name and they know we don’t disappear once the deal is signed. They know we’re reliable, reasonable, and fair. They know that we’re there for the occasional business hiccups and that we’ll always be responsive to their needs as they change.
We have seen our clients through good times and bad, start-ups and bankruptcies, market upswings and recessions, even pandemics.
Through it all, we have remained a trusted partner to thousands of businesses, embracing the same spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation
That defined our company when it was established. Rosenthal is proud to support more than 600 clients across the country, with offices in New York, California, Georgia and North Carolina.
Threadstone
Website: http://www.threadstonelp.com/
Threadstone Advisors is a leading independent advisory and investment firm specializing in the beauty and personal care, apparel, specialty retail and direct-to-consumer sectors. Our philosophy behind the creation of Threadstone Advisors is the belief that the comprehensive knowledge and a values-oriented culture of the senior partners are at the core of our success. We are committed to helping our clients benefit from more than 100 years of combined experience. Having assisted clients ranging from start-ups to global brands through different economic cycles, our perspective is broad. Our industry knowledge, thorough preparation and hard work, allows Threadstone to generate ideas to help companies achieve their strategic and financial goals and objectives.
Threadstone helps entrepreneurs and founders of young, exciting businesses to achieve intermediate financing goals. Our unique perspectives in the beauty sector allow us to better understand the nuances of the businesses we represent. Threadstone approaches each engagement in the same mindset as venture capital – we understand that businesses are looking for more than just money. Through a unique partnership approach, Threadstone develops a deep understanding for the strengths and opportunities of our clients and tailors a go-to-market approach that delivers both the financial and strategic resources that our clients need.
Silver Partners
Buchalter
Website: https://www.buchalter.com/
Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for nine decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world.
Novi Connect
Website: www.noviconnect.com
Novi Connect is an e-commerce platform where Contract Manufacturers can easily discover, sample, and purchase raw materials that have been pre-vetted for unique claims and sustainability standards, all in one place. Novi is the modern way to buy raw materials with competitive prices and low MOQs from top suppliers like Croda, BASF, and Univar. With advanced tracking features for documents, samples, payments, shipping, and delivery, Novi is designed so brands and contract manufacturers can bring sustainable products to market faster and at lower unit costs.
Obsess
Website: https://obsessar.com/virtual-beauty-stores/
Obsess is the leading experiential e-commerce platform that enables brands and retailers to create immersive, branded, discovery-driven virtual stores on their websites. The mission of the company is to create the next-generation online shopping interface that transforms the traditional e-commerce thumbnail grid into a 3D, interactive, social and highly engaging experience. Obsess has launched over 250 virtual stores and experiences for beauty brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Laneige, Prada Beauty, Armani Beauty, Olaplex, K18, Revlon, Maybelline and more—driving consumer engagement, brand loyalty and conversion.
Event Partners
ChemPoint
Website: https://www.chempoint.com/industries/personal-care
ChemPoint connects specialty ingredients to companies that need them. We partner with innovative ingredient producers to offer a wide range of high-quality biofunctionals, emollients, conditioners, preservatives, rheology modifiers, styling polymers, and more to our skin care, hair care, and cosmetic customers. Utilizing an industry-focused approach along with a team of technical specialists, we are dedicated to solving formulation challenges, providing product recommendations, introducing new and novel trending ingredients, and connecting our customers to helpful consulting and manufacturing resources in our network.
DC Advisory
Website: http://www.dcadvisory.com/aboutus
DC Advisory is an international investment bank committed to making a difference. As part of an established global business we offer access to over 650 professionals in 22 locations throughout Asia, Europe and the US. Across 11 industry focused teams, we offer tailored, independent advice on M&A, debt raisings and restructurings, private capital and access to unrivalled Asia investment knowledge.
Lucas Meyers Cosmetics
Website: lucasmeyercosmetics.com
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is the business unit of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) which develops, manufactures, and markets innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry. We offer active ingredients, functional ingredients, and delivery systems from various origins.
Intrepid
Website: https://intrepidib.com/
Staying ahead of the latest market trends requires an in-depth understanding of brands and products, and personal connections with emerging and key players. Intrepid provides dedicated expert merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services to the Beauty, Personal Care & Wellness sectors. By focusing exclusively on beauty care companies, our industry bankers have a deep understanding of value drivers in this sector.
Our Beauty, Personal Care & Wellness practice is uniquely dedicated to clients in the middle market, including entrepreneurs and owners of privately held companies, financial sponsors, and micro- to mid-cap public companies.
Mann & Schroeder
Website: https://www.mann-schroeder.de/en/
MANN & SCHRÖDER COSMETICS is a medium-sized, internationally active consumer goods company and stands for innovative skin and hair care products.
Founded in 1951, MANN & SCHRÖDER COSMETICS is one of the most renowned private label manufacturers in Europe. For almost 70 years, we have been developing creative brand concepts and manufacturing skin & hair care products for the private labels of drugstores, discounters and food retailers. Our second business area comprises the development, production and marketing of our own brand products for different target groups. From shampoo to facial care to foot cream, we manufacture almost all body care categories. Based in Siegelsbach, Baden-Württemberg, MANN & SCHRÖDER COSMETICS stands for innovative cosmetic products "Made in Germany"
Recom
Website: https://recom.co/
Recom is designed to fit like a glove—we develop expertly tailored solutions to help premium beauty brands accelerate on Amazon. There’s a reason we’re the number one global beauty seller: we go beyond the standard, one-size-fits-all approach and dig into the details to shape the right Amazon strategy for each brand. Drawing upon our real-world Amazon knowledge in dozens of product categories, we create the optimal action plan for your brand and deliver results that meet and exceed your expectations.
Our goal is to be a frictionless partner—the perfect fit for your brand, meshing with your organization and executing every component of your Amazon strategy flawlessly.
Brand Partner
Headline Media Partners
Base Beauty Creative Agency
Website: https://www.basebeauty.com/
We are the omni channel branding agency hyper-focused on the beauty and wellness industries. We create everything that the consumer sees and touches.
Where Brains Meet Beauty
Website: http://www.wherebrainsmeetbeauty.com/
WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY™ Host Jodi Katz, Founder & Creative Director of Base Beauty Creative Agency, welcomes guests into a relaxed, authentic and honest conversation about their career journey, from the struggles to the highs, and the roller coaster ride in-between. Jodi is not a reporter and she’s not ogling stats. She’s part James Lipton, part Andy Cohen, seeking to reveal wisdom and insightful stories that will inspire future leaders in beauty
Media Partners
Fashion Snoops
Website: https://www.fashionsnoops.com/
FS is a global trend forecasting agency helping leading consumer-facing brands around the world unlock innovation and propel growth. Through a combination of human and artificial intelligence, we analyze cultural shifts and interpret detected patterns in order to surface trend-driven business opportunities.
The Industry.Beauty
Website: https://theindustry.beauty/
TheIndustry.beauty dives deep into the UK beauty market (UK brands and international brands here) on a daily basis to ensure its readers are the best informed on the market news, trends and moves that are shaping the future of the industry.
Its market-leading, multi-channel proposition gives its readers a daily dose of breaking news, analysis and interviews served via a free-to-view website, its widely followed social channels and a free daily email newsletter. This daily content is complemented by regular in-depth reports, often containing exclusive consumer research, on prominent market trends + events incl networking and learning in person and on-line, along with a popular podcast channel.
TheIndustry.beauty also holds a unique master database of businesses and brands operating in the UK
market, be they UK based or international businesses with a presence here.
Each company profile includes a range of key data points from annual sales to store locations and social media followings, along with information on key personnel.
Personal Care Insights
Website: https://www.personalcareinsights.com/
PersonalCareInsights is the go-to news source for daily coverage of the personal care and beauty industry, reporting on cosmetic research, sustainable solutions, formulation ingredients and developments in skin health.
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Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/personal-care-insights/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/personal-care-insights/
RETAILBOSS
RETAILBOSS was founded in 2011 by senior managing director and retail expert Jeanel Alvarado. With a background in marketing, finance and commercial real estate, Jeanel has consulting experience working with brands ranging from early-stage to publicly-traded retail groups and well-known luxury conglomerates, giving her a fundamental understanding of the business world and global consumer culture.
She is regularly relied upon by beauty, fashion and consumer brands, non-profit organizations, trade organizations, educational institutions, and television outlets to speak about retail business trends and insights, with an emphasis on new developments and broader supply chain, real estate and tech trends.
STYLUS
Website: https://www.stylus.com/
Stylus are the expert source for trends and insights.
At Stylus, we uncover trends, predict change, and provide the intelligence that helps businesses prosper. With a relentless curiosity for what’s new, what’s now and what’s next, our experts are the authority in over 20 sectors – including Beauty, Consumer Attitudes, Technology, Retail and beyond – and have a deep understanding of the most influential emerging trends affecting consumers around the globe. It’s the reason we’re trusted by more than 600 of the world’s leading brands, agencies and businesses: to help them reveal what’s possible, not just predict what’s probable.
Stylus. See past the now.
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