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APR is a South Korean beauty company known for its Medicube skincare and device brand, selling cosmetics and devices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
APR said Medicube's US sales rose about 85% from a year earlier on a record day at Amazon's Oct. 6-7 Prime Big Deal Days. All of it is company-reported from a two-day discount sale, so the listing counts are firmer evidence of traction than the percentage.
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Musinsa is heading for a Kospi listing valued at up to 10 trillion won even though first-half operating profit fell 11.2% to 52.3 billion won. Buyers at that price would be paying for overseas growth that so far has come with lower earnings.
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APR made Medicube the first K-beauty brand in Mexico's Palacio de Hierro, opening a permanent store with a second due this month. The counter sits above a network built first in warehouse clubs and beauty chains, so the brand now sells at both ends of Mexican retail.
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Goodai Global's Beauty of Joseon enters Georgia's PSP Pharma chain this month with about 20 products. Chains in Brazil, Europe and the UAE are competing to stock Korean brands as more shoppers compare ingredients and efficacy before they buy.
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Cosmax made 86.22 million units in July, its highest month this year and about triple its July 2021 output. First-quarter production came to 116% of the preceding fourth quarter, a ratio that stood at 91% in 2022.
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Individuals net sold 459.8 billion won across five semiconductor ETFs in the first eleven days of September and put 90.1 billion won into the gold, nuclear, battery and power funds credited with the rotation.
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APR says the radiofrequency microporation inside its Medicube Age-R Booster Pro X2 raised minoxidil deposition in animal skin, and it wants that delivery route to become a scalp and hair loss platform. The clinical work is still to come.
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Daiwa's tour covered two contract manufacturers, two brand owners and an aesthetics device maker. The foreign stakes already disclosed in the sector cluster inside a band 0.80 of a percentage point wide.
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Target's new beauty floor hands Korean indie brands 12 of 90 slots, which is a lease on a planogram rather than a moat, and the only numbers in the file are door counts and SKU counts, with no sell-through yet.
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Kolmar Korea's operating profit rose 50.2% in the second quarter and all three of Korea's big contract manufacturers set records. The margins say something more complicated.
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