​UK consumer and retail spend last month was OK, but not brilliant as Valentine's Day provided support for the jewellery and beauty categories, but non-essentials (especially clothing) were largely off the priority list.

Credo Beauty, the innovative clean beauty company founded in San Francisco, opened its second store in Los Angeles at Larchmont Village. The brand now has 12 locations in the United States. 

LVMH on Monday named Stephane Rinderknech as chairman and CEO of its beauty division, rounding out a series of broader management changes at the owner of Guerlain and Parfums Christian Dior.

​High-profile model Bella Hadid has become the latest muse for Charlotte Tilbury, the upscale mega-beauty brand majority owned by Puig.

​The West End of London is recovering fast at present, updated figures from the New West End Company (NWEC) showed on Wednesday, as high-spending tourists cancel out slower footfall. 

​Sephora is preparing for a major assault on the UK market from next week as it prepares to open its first British store since it returned to the country via its webstore last autumn.

Kering Beauté will initially be structured around Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga perfumes. For the future, the CEO of the luxury group said he wanted to apply the same approach as with Kering Eyewear.

Beauty brand Benefit Cosmetics has taken the TikTok route to give its British customers early access to its new Pore Care collection. TikTok Shop UK will exclusively host its pre-sale offer from 24 February.

French power giant EDF said on Tuesday it signed two new electricity contracts with L'Oreal to help the France-based cosmetics maker achieve carbon neutrality for all its sites by 2025.

​As e-tail becomes increasingly important to luxury department stores, Harvey Nichols has named Annabel Thorburn as its new e-commerce director.

Lush has a new ‘Lead Retailer’ for its UK & Ireland operations to oversee store performance. Long-time employee Kasey Swithenbank has been promoted to the post having joined the beauty brand in 2010 as a sales associate.

​Revolution Beauty continues to expand its business with key customers, despite its recent problems, and has just taken a big step in a deal with US giant Walmart.

Yves Saint Laurent Beauty announced on Thursday that model Lila Moss has been named a U.S. ambassador. 

L'Oreal posted 8.1% sales growth in the fourth quarter, a touch slower than in the previous three months, with firm demand in the United States and Europe helping to offset the dent from coronavirus disruptions in China.

​Unilever reported full-year 2022 results on Thursday with the consumer products giant saying it “carefully balanced price growth, volume and competitiveness to navigate through the high cost inflation environment”.

​Almost 600,00 jobs — one in every 60 in the UK — contributing almost £30 billion pounds to the British economy. That’s the size and importance of the hair & beauty industry in a nutshell.