Gucci and Chanel are using the power of customers’ smartphones to deliver more personalized and human-enhanced service to their customers. Gucci has launched a Florence-based call center, with five more to follow by 2020. The call center provides the expertise of Gucci’s finest shop assistants to customers throughout the world anywhere and anytime. And Chanel’s […]
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Interview with Bobbi Brown about the origins and launch of her new beauty ingestibles line at Walmart called Evolution_18
Why Ulta Is Beating Sephora and Amazon in the Battle for Beauty Shoppers
Since October 2018, Ulta has been moving ahead of both Amazon and Sephora as consumers’ first choice for beauty shoppers, according to Cowan’s monthly consumer tracking survey.
Ulta, Sephora and Amazon: Where Is the $56.4b U.S. Beauty Retail Market Headed
LVMH just released its first-half 2018 financials, and by all accounts, its retail beauty brand Sephora is off to a good start this year. While the company doesn’t break out sales of Sephora in its Selective Retail reporting group, it revealed LVMH Selective Retail grew 9% over the same period the previous year and bragged: “Sephora achieved […]
Luxury on Amazon? Coty Wins Battle, Amazon Will Win the War
Many in the luxury industry cheered after the recent ruling by Europe’s top court that Coty and other luxury brands could prohibit retailers and distributors from selling products on a third-party internet platform such as Amazon and eBay. The European Court of Justice ruling came as a result of case referred by a German court where Coty […]