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Consumer behavior has changed: it’s a truism of COVID-19

People now want to buy from, work for, talk about and partner with companies that deliver bold solutions for both human-kind and planet-kind.

So how can a global beauty brand transform its business model to meet the expectations of the post-covid conscious consumer?

This month’s panel:

Joanna Gluzman Director CSR and Sustainability at Avon

Claire Jost CEO at Good Business   

Amy Bourbeau Co-Fonder at Seismic Consulting

Natalie Deacon President at Avon Foundation

Discuss: Sustainability: Planet? People? Or both? 

2020’s global pandemic presented the tactile and hospitality-focused professional beauty sector with a never-before-seen dilemma, complete closure of salons and spas.

Despite these challenges’ brands, salon & spa owners as well as their employees have showed admirable displays of agility.

However, with a global recession looming and consumer buying habits changing fast: how can the professional beauty industry take it’s learnings from lockdown into 2021 and beyond?

This month’s panel: 

Clare Varga – Head of Beauty at WGSN

Mallory Huron – Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops  

Discuss how to ReThink: Professional Beauty

2020’s social justice movement called for businesses and brands to take meaningful steps in the support of racial equality.

So how in 2021 does the beauty industry build a roadmap that challenges brands to be more integrated, deliberate, and inclusive across their operations?

Find out more in the first episode of this mini-series in which we discuss some of the global issues impacting the beauty industry today.

This month’s panel: 

Lela Coffey, Vice President of Brands, North America & Hair Portfolio at P&G Beauty

Tiyale Hayes, Senior Vice President, Brand Strategy and Marketing at BET 

Dr Rolanda Wilkerson, Principal Scientist & Senior Manager of Scientific Communications in Beauty Care at P&G

Discuss: Diversity beyond numbers - insights and cultural drivers that can help brands authentically connect with diverse consumers.

Click here to learn more about the 4Rs Framework and download Diversity Beyond Numbers: A Guide to Authentically Connecting with Diverse Consumers

By 2025, there will be over 1 billion women experiencing menopause globally

Yet this universal female experience, that challenges both the physical and emotional wellbeing of half the world’s population from anywhere between 2 to 10 years is massively underdiscussed, underresearched and underprovided for.

So how does the cosmetics industry bridge this global information gap and start a conversation most woman feel embarrassed and awkward to discuss?

This month’s panel: 

Gina Ghura, Head of Future Innovation at Avon

Dr Sarah Jarvis, MBE a UK based General Practitioner and Women’s Health Expert

Anthony Gonzalez, Head of Skincare Product Development at Avon

Discuss: Menopause too little information

With wellness at the top of consumers mind in a post-Covid world, CBD Beauty’s global growth potential is likely to accelerate, but how does this newly legalised ingredient manage the growing pains of oversupply, consumer perception, regulation, efficacy and standardisation?

This months panel 

Stephen Murphy - Co-Founder at Prohibition Partners 

Alexis Abraham - CEO at Cellular Goods 

Alexia Blake - Head of R&D at Cellular Goods 

Mallory Huron - Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops  

Discuss how to ReThink - CBD in Beauty 

At the beginning of 2020 the travel retail distribution channel represented one-third of revenues for some traditional beauty brands 

The global pandemic exposed the beauty industries over-reliance on this sector that had been a ‘growth winner’ for years 

With many traditional retailers doors still shut what should/could the post-pandemic travel retail experience look like? 

This months panel 

Nicole Fall CEO & Founder at  Asian Consumer Intelligence

Laura Saunter Senior Retail analyst at WGSN

Ashley Dudarenok, Founder of ChoZan and Alarice

Discuss how to ReThink -Travel Retail 

2020 asked us all to ReThink the way we live our lives

For the cosmetics industry People, Product, Plant became the matra 

Greenwashing the exposé 

Sustainable the direction 

This months panel

Mallory Huron - Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops 

Samir Lakhani - Founder  of Eco Soap Bank

Jo-Anne Chidley - Founder at Beauty Kitchen UK 

Discussed how to ReThink - Sustainable Beauty

This season we will be discussing how to ReThink the cosmetics industry

2020 ripped up the business rule book, exposed social, financial, cultural and environmental cracks in its systems

And presented business with an unprecedented opportunity to re-examine and radically transform itself! 

This months panel

Mallory Huron  Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops 

Antoinette van den Berg Fonder of The Lady in Blu trend agency 

Nicole Fall CEO  at Asian Consumer Intelligence Pte Ltd 

Discussed how  to ReThink - The beauty trend

In this months episode the panel review the external factors that have challenged the cosmetics industry throughout 2020 and the lessons if any that have been learned along the way….

Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publishing Director who was joined in this episode by the following guest:

Nicole Fall Founder at Asia Consumer Intelligence

Amarjit Sahota Founder and President at Ecovia Intelligence

Mallory Huron  Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops

in-conversation with  - a business podcast from Global Cosmetics News is a panel discussion about interesting things with interesting people all whom just happen to have a connection with the cosmetics industry.

Hosted by Siobhan Murphy, Global Cosmetics News Publisher who was joined in this episode by the following guest:

Nicole Fall - Founder at Asia Consumer Intelligence

Amarjit Sahota Founder and President at Ecovia Intelligence

Mallory Huron -Beauty Editor at Fashion Snoops