- August 29, 2023
Despite inflation, despite the volatility in discretionary spending, certain categories are holding up.
Consumers are still opening their wallets to buy health and beauty products. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed that health and ...
- July 29, 2023
With the resurgence of travel and consumers increasingly relying on credit to pursue their experiences, one might assume that brand loyalty would become more straightforward.
However, even during times of inflation, ...
- March 16, 2023
January’s consumer spending numbers have turned out to be a temporary reprieve, as customers continue to cut back.
The most recent Commerce Department spending numbers were released on Wednesday (Mar. 15) ...
- March 10, 2023
Consumers’ interest in beauty and wellness products and services remained strong in the fourth quarter for Ulta Beauty.
The company completed a year of record sales, profitability and member growth during ...
- August 26, 2022
Today in the connected economy, earnings results from buy now, pay later (BNPL) companies show the payment method remains attractive to consumers. Plus, Ulta Beauty reports that digital shopping remains ...
- August 2, 2022
Today in the connected economy, The Honest Company continues its foray into the world of physical retail with an expanded Ulta collaboration. Plus, food delivery and payments tech company Waitr ...
- May 31, 2022
Tucked in beside the likes of Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and a host of other consumer staples companies that provide the food, toilet paper and toothpaste-type essentials of daily ...
- May 13, 2022
As its sales slump stretches to a year, The Honest Company is touting ongoing and new partnerships as key to helping it reverse course for its clean lifestyle brand ahead ...
- March 11, 2022
Today in retail, Ulta Beauty holds its own in the increasingly competitive beauty care sector, while APIs play an important role for businesses when it comes to payment orchestration. Plus, ...
- March 11, 2022
Ulta Beauty appears to be faring well in the increasingly fierce battle for customers in the beauty care space, as Sephora is deepening its in-store presence at Kohl’s and Walmart ...
- October 20, 2021
In today’s top retail news, Ulta Beauty is trying to build the “digital store of the future,” while Shopify is set to help Spotify artists sell merchandise through a new ...
- October 20, 2021
As sales of beauty products continue to recover from the lows seen at the height of the pandemic, Ulta Beauty’s investments in new tools and omnichannel capabilities suggest that the ...
- August 27, 2021
Retailers understand that they need an omnichannel approach to succeed. Plus, Ulta plays offense as eager shoppers return to stores, and Perch adds Web Deals Direct to expand its capabilities.
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- August 25, 2021
Surging in-store traffic led Ulta Beauty to strong second-quarter sales despite slowing eCommerce sales, as the beauty category recovers faster than executives expected.
“Our guests are demonstrating that brick and mortar ...
- December 21, 2020
The pandemic interjected a lot of uncertainty into the world of loyalty and rewards offerings in the last year as consumers’ shopping habits realigned and contracted to meet the rarified ...
- December 21, 2020
Rewards points and programs may spur customers to make purchases, but do they inspire loyalty that lives on after the transaction is made?
It was the main question put to a ...
- November 11, 2020
The cosmetics business continues its pandemic-driven evolution as new partnerships and new brands continue to enter the market. The latest pairing to make news is Target and Ulta. Target announced ...
- October 8, 2020
In today’s top retail news: an Israeli startup has launched an interactive kiosk that leverages voice technology, the 10.10 Shopping Festival counts Kroger and Ulta in its lineup, and AR ...
- October 8, 2020
The big story for holiday retail so far this year has come down to one word: early. In previous years, Thanksgiving kicked off the season, but the pandemic has scuttled ...
- March 18, 2020
Large department stores such as Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s have shut down their New York City locations to avoid the large congregations of people usually inside their massive spaces spreading the ...
- June 24, 2019
Amazon launched its latest B2B entry in eCommerce on Monday (June 24) with the Amazon Professional Beauty Store, a shopping hub for professional stylists, barbers and estheticians.
The store will carry ...
- May 2, 2019
Hair color is big business – particularly in the United States, where 85 percent of women report coloring their hair in some fashion. How they do it varies. About 48 ...
- December 10, 2018
Ulta revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it is reducing the number of stores it will open each year.
According to Retail Dive, Ulta’s long-term brick-and-mortar strategy has been decreased ...
- June 13, 2017
Before bareMinerals was a household name in cosmetics – its parent, Bare Escentuals, was a smallish bath and body retailer with an unusual product that had a small problem. The product was ...
- April 24, 2017
Buying hair color out of a box at a store is a retail experience that leaves much to be desired, as anyone who has ever tried to match a salon ...
- March 14, 2017
When it comes to makeup brands, there is no brand bigger than Estée Lauder’s MAC Cosmetics.
So what does the Ulta Beauty, the largest U.S. beauty retailer, do to boost itself higher ...
- January 31, 2017
With its infatuation with Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, it’s safe to say that today’s generation is as concerned with appearances as were previous generations — if not more. The unexpected ...
- October 25, 2016
Holiday shopping sales are expected to rebound this year, with more than a 4 percent year-over-year increase. Last year’s growth of 3.6 percent will be outshined this year, which is ...
- August 29, 2016
Sometimes reporting double digit sale growth just doesn’t impress.
Ulta reported its seventh straight quarter of double-digit growth, with same-store sales up 14.4 percent in Q2, a jump on the 10.1 ...
- April 13, 2016
Calling Ulta Beauty an up-and-coming firm feels a bit funny, given that the business first opened its doors 25 years ago. If a business could rent a car on its ...
- September 23, 2015
A brewing fight between national retail cosmetics chains Ulta and Sephora could get ugly fast.
In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Dave Kimbell, chief merchandising and marketing officer at Ulta Beauty, outlined ...
