Capco has announced multiple new signings for Covent Garden with the new tenants list dominated by fashion and beauty names. 

​Harry Styles has this week launched a beauty brand — called Pleasing — the label debuting with just a few products. For now it features vegan/clean beauty unisex nail products and skincare. 

Oakland, California-based cosmetics company E.L.F. Beauty announced on Monday that it has eliminated more than one million pounds of packaging materials through its Project Unicorn initiative.

Covergirl announced on Monday its foray into a new category with its first-ever 100 percent vegan and clean skincare collection. 

Cosmetics group L'Occitane (owner among others of L'Occitane en Provence and Melvita) has recently acquired an 83% stake in beauty brand Sol de Janeiro, founded in 2015 in the USA.

Prestige beauty was battered badly by the pandemic but the segment is on the comeback trail as shoppers return to physical stores and the renewal of social life/office working means more demand for key categories.

​Luxury giant Richemont issued its latest set of results on Friday, but the biggest news was that it’s in talks with Farfetch around its loss-making Yoox Net-A-Porter business.

Natura & Co, the Brazil-based owner of The Body Shop, Avon and Aesop, announced on Thursday a sales decline in the third quarter, but posted strong growth in the first nine months of the year.

The Denton, Texas-based professional hair and beauty supply company announced net sales of $3.87 billion in its fiscal year 2021, which ended September 30, an increase of 10.3% from $3.51 billion in the previous year.

H1 results at Burberry showed it making “strong progress”, with full-price sales surging and higher margins. Outerwear and leather did well and it's expanding its new store concept rollout as it boosts customer spend.

Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido announced on Wednesday a 14 percent jump in net sales, for the nine-month period ended September 30. 

The Honest Company announced on Wednesday a 6 percent jump in third quarter revenue and its eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. 

Indian cosmetics-to-fashion platform Nykaa surged 96% in a blockbuster debut on Wednesday, fetching the country's first women-led unicorn a valuation of nearly $14 billion.

The Vaughan, Ontario-based personal care group reported a net loss of $103.1 million, or $2.81 per share, in the third quarter ended September 30, 2021, as goodwill impairment compounded the effect of stumbling sales.

​Associated British Foods’ results for the 53 week to 18 September show how hard its star Primark brand was hit during the pandemic, but also just how well it’s bouncing back.

​The store opening programme for Frasers Group’s luxury chain Flannels is showing no signs of slowing down with the latest new store being in Southampton and also having extra beauty interest.