Beauty Features
On the Street
NEW YORK -- The line between the prestige and mass beauty markets continues to blur, as drugstores build up their sales staffs and department stores offer more self-service.
Still, major differences between the classes of trade, in particular...
— Apr 22, 1994
West Coast Stores Fight Mass Malaise
LOS ANGELES -- Beauty isn't booming at drugstore chains on the West Coast.
While still considered a core category, beauty has become less of a profit center, requiring retailers to focus on tougher editing of lines in their beauty...
— Apr 22, 1994
Southwest Soaring with Gains of 5-30%
DALLAS -- Texas women are turning to drugstores for their beauty products more and more as an alternative to shopping at department stores, area drugstore merchants claim.
With little or no advertising, drugstores have been able to rack up...
— Apr 22, 1994
Getting the Vitamin Treatment: Cabot Energizes Moisturizers
NEW YORK -- Cabot Laboratories Inc. wants consumers to take their vitamins. But the company also wants to make sure the concept won't be hard to swallow.
These vitamins will be applied to the skin as ingredients in a new line of moisturizers,...
— Apr 22, 1994
New Scents, Skin Care Keep Midwest Strong
CHICAGO-- With new products like Coty's Vanilla Fields, Maybelline's Revitalizing Makeup and the alpha-hydroxy acid skin care trend feeding the consumer's appetite for newness, cosmetics sales in the Midwest mass-market stores look healthy.
But...
— Apr 22, 1994
CK One: Something for Everyone
NEW YORK -- CK has gone PC.
Calvin Klein, whose fragrances have generally been associated with all kinds of sexual overtones, has now come up with a scent so politically correct, it is non-gender specific.
It represents a dramatic...
— Apr 22, 1994
Rogers Exiting Lancome to Develop Sears Private Label Cosmetics Line
NEW YORK -- Determined to build its new cosmetics business, Sears, Roebuck & Co. isn't willing to wait for the prestige cosmetics houses to sign on.
Instead, the chain is entering into a joint venture with Pierre Rogers, president of the...
— Apr 21, 1994
