Bliss
also referred to as: bliss spa
9 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2018 by Marcia Kilgore · said 57 times in 10 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
2020 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2019 24 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
2018 20 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Bliss, oldest first
Jan 22, 2018
A 1996 Vogue feature funded most of Bliss Spa's construction costs
“When this article dropped, thousands of people started to call to buy this Swiss oxygen cream. It lasted probably for four or five months of, you know, this article having such an incredible effect on the sales of products out of our little facial place that a…”
Jan 22, 2018 neutral
Starwood Hotels acquired Bliss to integrate spas into W Hotel properties
“So LVMH, after 2001 they started to divest of most of their beauty businesses. And we were one of the first ones to get snapped up by another business. So Starwood Hotels and Resorts bought us because they wanted to have bliss bars, and they wanted to put thos…”
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 …”
Jan 22, 2018 negative
Kilgore left Bliss after clashing with Starwood's inexperienced appointed executive
“They put somebody in charge of the business, who was a young guy, probably the prodigy of the man who owned Starwood at the time, who really didn't understand customer service the way I understood it, and I felt like I was spending most of my day trying to tea…”
Jan 22, 2018 neutral
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.”
Aug 12, 2019 neutral
LVMH divested most beauty businesses after 2001, selling Bliss to Starwood
“So LVMH, after 2001 they started to divest of most of their beauty businesses, and we were one of the first ones to get snapped up by another business. So Starwood Hotels and Resorts bought us because they wanted to have bliss bars, and they wanted to put thos…”
Aug 12, 2019 positive
A 1996 Vogue feature generated enough sales to fund Bliss Spa's construction
“It lasted probably for four or five months of, you know, this article having such an incredible effect on the sales of products out of our little facial place that a lot of the construction costs were almost covered by that one article.”
Oct 24, 2022 positive
Marla Beck: 1990s indie brand boom opened up the cosmetics industry
“It was the rise of the independent brands, which is, for the first time in a very long time, you had founders that were breaking into the industry. So, you had Bobby Brown, you had Marcia Kilgore, you had Lev and Alina Glassman at Frosch, you had Francois Nars…”