Beauty Features
TV Time With Tova
WEST CHESTER, Penn. -- Weather reports have been predicting yet another major winter storm for Pennsylvania, but at the QVC Network, the show must go on.
On this day, Tova Borgnine is scheduled to appear on an hour-long program featuring her...
— Mar 4, 1994
A Little Guy Shows How to do it
LINDEN, N.J. -- While Phar-Mor and Drug Emporium -- two deep discount drugstore leaders -- are battling back after suffering financial problems, a three-store operation in New Jersey is proving that the low-margin, high-volume approach may still be...
— Mar 4, 1994
PETA Gets Second Wind in its Battle With Beauty
WASHINGTON -- Cosmetics executives are breathing easier these days as the spotlight on animal rights has turned from laboratory testing to fur.
But activists with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals say the lull is only temporary....
— Mar 4, 1994
Beauty's 20th Century: From Burn Salve to $20B
WASHINGTON -- In retracing the U.S. beauty business over the last 100 years, it appears a series of seemingly random events somehow led to the development of a $20 billion industry.
Could anyone have predicted in 1904, when Max Factor left his...
— Mar 4, 1994
Beauty Braces for Electronic Future
NEW YORK -- Beauty is taking its first, unsure steps into cyberspace.
Long after the apparel and accessories industries went on line with computerized Quick Response inventory management systems, the cosmetics industry is in the initial stages...
— Mar 4, 1994
Kerrigan to Debut for Revlon on TV on Oscar Night
NEW YORK -- Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan will make her debut on television as Revlon's newest spokeswoman March 21 during the Academy Awards.
On Monday, the beauty company confirmed published reports that it has signed Kerrigan to a...
— Mar 1, 1994
May Co. is Planning to Drop Ultima Cosmetics
NEW YORK -- May Department Stores Co. is planning to phase out Revlon's Ultima II prestige cosmetics and fragrance business, it was learned.
Market reports were circulating at the weekend that May Co. is dropping Ultima as a way of making a...
— Feb 28, 1994
