The marathon mindset: Inside Megan Gale’s blueprint for long-term resilience
From Italy’s high-velocity fame to Australia’s longest-running fashion contract, Megan Gale reveals why she shifted from modelling sprints to intentional longevity.
Beauty
How Sheena Zadeh built a $150 million clean beauty brand
After an early boost from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, Sheena Zadeh’s Kosas found success by tapping into minimalist makeup trends years before they became mainstream. Now she’s set her sights on international markets—and a potential sale.
Hailey Bieber’s $1 billion Rhode deal: Here are 26 others who made a fortune in beauty
Forbes counts fewer than 30 billionaires and centimillionaires in the U.S and Europe who have made a large chunk of their fortune in the super competitive world of beauty products.
Coco & Eve’s journey from bootstraps to >$100 million exit
Emily Hamilton launched her viral beauty brand Coco & Eve in 2018, bootstrapped by her and husband Alexander Ostrowksi. Fast-forward to today, and the company’s just sold a majority stake in the business to US private equity firm Gauge Capital – and says it’s on track to exceed $120 million in revenue for the 2024 calendar year.
Beauty giant Estée Lauder’s stock crashes 19% to 6-year low—Heirs lose nearly $3 billion
The five billionaire Lauder heirs correspondingly lost a combined $2.9 billion Wednesday.
Australian scalp care brand Straand secures $2 million pre-seed investment from Unilever Ventures
Australia’s first microbiome-focussed haircare brand has inked a deal with Unilever Ventures to fund global expansion.
Failure and resilience might be the best teachers
L’Oreal Australia and NZ CEO Rodrigo Pizarro says learning from failure and backing personal intuition are key to business success.
The two women changing the beauty industry for blind people
Through their partnership with Vision Australia, SISTERWOULD has extended its accessibility right through to its packaging, all of which includes universal braille.
A Frank Body of evidence about business building
Frank Body co-founder Jess Hatzis took a while to discover her leadership style. She explains how much she values the things that the experience has taught her.