This year fans of Fenty Beauty by Rihanna can look forward to having a ball with a collection entirely devoted to the Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter and its dazzling cult shade Trophy Wife.

Consumer goods giants Unilever and Henkel and a series of buyout funds are talking to U.S. cosmetics maker Coty to submit bids for some of its most popular beauty brands, three sources told Reuters.

The international fragrance company responsible for the perfume offerings of brands including Montblanc, Jimmy Choo and Coach, expects to report revenues of 500 million euros ($554 million) in 2020, up 4.2% from 2019. 

Britain’s Hut Group has grown remarkably fast over the past decade, and it hopes the launch of two new debt facilities will give it the further boost it needs to become the global leader in online beauty.

New York is getting a new museum for beauty buffs and history aficionados.

Analysts are predicting the Black Friday period to see spending anywhere from £4.3bn up to £8.7bn this year and while fashion & beauty will be a key sector, beauty will be the biggest winner in this mega-category.

The Estée Lauder-owned beauty brand announced on Wednesday that it has tapped the Coty alum as its senior vice president for global marketing, a newly created role at the company.

At a time when every major luxury group wants to buy a niche perfume brand, few indie scent houses have been performing as enticingly as Memo International - whose three marques are all rapidly expanding worldwide. 

A skincare line for men has reportedly become the first international Leaping Bunny-approved cruelty-free beauty brand to go on sale in mainland China.

Make-up may not be recording the impressive sales rises we saw a few years ago but in the UK, sales of prestige-priced lip gloss are continuing to rise above the rate of inflation.

UK consumers are split on the virtues of Black Friday but will still spend more this year. And while electricals remains the key category, clothing is a big spending area both for Britons and in Europe.

Personal care and beauty products company Brand Architekts Group Plc warned its first-half results would be hit by difficult market conditions in Britain and increased tariffs on China-sourced products.

Amazon.com Inc uses "aggregated data" from sellers in its third-party marketplace to improve its overall business, the online retailer said in response to a congressional antitrust probe.

The German luxury fashion brand and the international perfume company have signed a ten-year global licensing deal for the creation, development and distribution of fragrances under the MCM brand.

Space NK has partnered with Adyen, a payments platform, to make its e-commerce experience more convenient for customers in the Asia-Pacific region.