beauty conglomerates
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2018 by Marcia Kilgore · across every show →
Everything said about beauty conglomerates, oldest first
Jan 22, 2018 neutral
Late 1990s beauty conglomerates shifted to acquiring startups over building brands
“It was a hot time for beauty companies. So, retrospectively there were a lot of cool new companies starting, and a lot of interest in those companies from the big beauty conglomerates. They were starting to buy up smaller players rather than, you know, trying …”
Aug 12, 2019 neutral
Big beauty conglomerates shifted to acquiring startups in the late 1990s
“So, retrospectively there were a lot of cool new companies starting, and a lot of interest in those companies from the big beauty conglomerates. They were starting to buy up smaller players rather than, you know, trying to build their own.”
May 18, 2020 positive
Beauty conglomerates acquire indie brands because massive budgets cannot replicate founder authenticity
“Today they're certainly not, they're the They're the brands where everybody, you know, the big guys want to buy them, because they can see that we had created things that they, with all their money, and all their teams, and all their budgets, could not create.…”