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Ulta Beauty is a major U.S. specialty retailer selling cosmetics, skincare, and haircare products through stores and online.
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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A women's advocacy petition and a 732,000-view video have Ulta publicly defending cameras it says sit in fewer than 1% of its stores. So far the record shows reputational pressure, with no clear commercial cost attached.
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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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Reuters says Goldman is advising a process that would value the alternative-data firm at roughly nine to 11 times a reported $280 million 2026 recurring-revenue target.
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The retailer booked nearly $1 billion back after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's import taxes. Its CFO points to price cuts, but the disclosure so far is thinner than the number.
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