Ulta Ramps Up Efforts To Dethrone Sephora
A brewing fight between national retail cosmetics chains Ulta and Sephora could get ugly fast. In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Dave Kimbell, chief merchandising and marketing officer at Ulta...
View ArticleUlta Looks To Take On Department Stores With Aggressive Growth
Calling Ulta Beauty an up-and-coming firm feels a bit funny, given that the business first opened its doors 25 years ago. If a business could rent a car on its own were it a person, it is hard to think...
View ArticleUlta Beats The Street, Stock Drops Anyway
Sometimes reporting double digit sale growth just doesn’t impress. Ulta reported its seventh straight quarter of double-digit growth, with same-store sales up 14.4 percent in Q2, a jump on the 10.1...
View ArticleHoliday Sales Expected To Rebound, Health And Beauty Topping List
Holiday shopping sales are expected to rebound this year, with more than a 4 percent year-over-year increase. Last year’s growth of 3.6 percent will be outshined this year, which is a welcome bump for...
View ArticleUlta Wins The Beauty Contest Of 2016
With its infatuation with Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, it’s safe to say that today’s generation is as concerned with appearances as were previous generations — if not more. The unexpected beauty...
View ArticleUlta Beauty Steps Up Its Game With MAC Cosmetics Addition
When it comes to makeup brands, there is no brand bigger than Estée Lauder’s MAC Cosmetics. So what does the Ulta Beauty, the largest U.S. beauty retailer, do to boost itself higher on consumers’ —...
View ArticleMadison Reed And The AI Of Hair Color
Buying hair color out of a box at a store is a retail experience that leaves much to be desired, as anyone who has ever tried to match a salon result in their bathroom at home can quickly attest. One’s...
View ArticlebareMinerals’ Back-To-Basics Retail Secret
Before bareMinerals was a household name in cosmetics – its parent, Bare Escentuals, was a smallish bath and body retailer with an unusual product that had a small problem. The product was what has...
View ArticleUlta Lowers Number Of New Store Openings
Ulta revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it is reducing the number of stores it will open each year. According to Retail Dive, Ulta’s long-term brick-and-mortar strategy has been...
View ArticleDIY Hair Color’s Physical Retail Migration
Hair color is big business – particularly in the United States, where 85 percent of women report coloring their hair in some fashion. How they do it varies. About 48 percent trek to a salon to have...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Online Store For Beauty Pros
Amazon launched its latest B2B entry in eCommerce on Monday (June 24) with the Amazon Professional Beauty Store, a shopping hub for professional stylists, barbers and estheticians. The store will carry...
View ArticleRetailers Shutter Brick-And-Mortar Stores As Foot Traffic Sinks
Large department stores such as Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s have shut down their New York City locations to avoid the large congregations of people usually inside their massive spaces spreading the...
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Ulta ‘Focused On Playing Offense’ As Beauty Industry Recovers
Surging in-store traffic led Ulta Beauty to strong second-quarter sales despite slowing eCommerce sales, as the beauty category recovers faster than executives expected. “Our guests are demonstrating...
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Omnichannel Retail’s Future, Perch Moves Into Fulfillment, Ulta Is Aggressive...
Retailers understand that they need an omnichannel approach to succeed. Plus, Ulta plays offense as eager shoppers return to stores, and Perch adds Web Deals Direct to expand its capabilities. Data:...
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Beauty Brands Invest to Power ‘Digital Store of the Future’
As sales of beauty products continue to recover from the lows seen at the height of the pandemic, Ulta Beauty’s investments in new tools and omnichannel capabilities suggest that the future of...
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Today in Retail: Ulta Beauty Bolstering Digital Abilities; Shopify Teams up...
In today’s top retail news, Ulta Beauty is trying to build the “digital store of the future,” while Shopify is set to help Spotify artists sell merchandise through a new partnership with the streaming...
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Ulta Beauty Sees Q4 Net Sales Up 24.1%
Ulta Beauty appears to be faring well in the increasingly fierce battle for customers in the beauty care space, as Sephora is deepening its in-store presence at Kohl’s and Walmart adopts the Beauty...
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Today in Retail: Consumers Navigating Highest Grocery Prices Since the 1980s;...
Today in retail, Ulta Beauty holds its own in the increasingly competitive beauty care sector, while APIs play an important role for businesses when it comes to payment orchestration. Plus, Rivian’s...
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Honest Co. Hopes Retail P’ships With Walmart, Ulta, GNC Will Reverse Sales Slump
As its sales slump stretches to a year, The Honest Company is touting ongoing and new partnerships as key to helping it reverse course for its clean lifestyle brand ahead of its fiscal 2022 year-end...
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From Personal Care to Pet Care to Energy Drinks, the Fringe of Staples...
Tucked in beside the likes of Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and a host of other consumer staples companies that provide the food, toilet paper and toothpaste-type essentials of daily...
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