Beauty Features
Brushing Up
NEW YORK - Shower gels and glycerin soaps aren't the only products ringing up sales in bath and body departments. Retailers and manufacturers are also applauding the budding bath accessories business. "They really sell well in conjunction with the...
— Feb 18, 1994
Scented Bath Items Sweeten Mass Sales
NEW YORK -- While the mass fragrance market has been lackluster lately, scented products of a different sort are selling quite well.
"Fragrance is probably the single motivating factor behind impulse purchases such as bath and body products,"...
— Feb 18, 1994
Bonjour Sportswear Says 'Hello' to Fragrance
NEW YORK -- The Bonjour Group is breaking into the mass market fragrance business -- with a prestige spin.
The sportswear and accessory company's first effort will be a women's item called Bonjour Eau de Parfum. It will bow in better mass...
— Feb 18, 1994
F&M's New Approach: Variety Builds Volume
CHICAGO -- F&M Distributors has the competitive pricing strategy to be expected from a deep-discount drug chain.
But the Warren, Mich.-based company also claims to beat its competitors by employing a wide assortment of mass market...
— Feb 18, 1994
Village Pharmacy: Emphasis On Service
DALLAS -- Chanel and Calvin Klein are not the usual kind of neighbors you find on the shelves of a drug store.
Maybe that's why the Village Pharmacy at Highland Park Village shopping center here is able to do a brisk business: It stocks a...
— Feb 18, 1994
Richard Barrie Profit Increases 16.7% in Quarter, 42.4% in Half
ORANGE, Conn. -- Spurred by its Baryshnikov line and recently acquired Muelhens brands, Richard Barrie Fragrances Inc. reported earnings jumped 16.7 percent in the second quarter and 42.4 percent in the six months ended Dec. 31.
In the quarter,...
— Feb 15, 1994
Taking Liberty With Conventional Wisdom
LONDON -- For its first venture into cosmetics, Liberty is bending some of the traditions of beauty retailing.
The new 2,000-square-foot cosmetics department, which opened in November in the department store chain's Regent Street flagship, has...
— Feb 11, 1994
