On this episode Samantha speaks with Jillian Wright, the co-founder of Indie Beauty Media Group and the Indie Beauty Expo (@indiebeautyexpo) the world’s largest exposition of innovative independently owned beauty brands. The two speak about Jillians experience building a market place for indie ...
Indie Beauty Media Group has released its most recent Anthology Of Independent Beauty covering August’s Indie Beauty Expo New York, BeautyX Capital Summit 2019, and the first-ever Uplink Live and Week Of Independent Beauty. The digital lookbook also reveals the results of the IBE NY survey taken by retail buyer ...
I find most beauty conventions to be extremely stressful. With good reason: I was almost trampled to death by a hoard of Gen Z girls at Kylie Cosmetics’ booth at Beautycon last year. Despite the fear instilled in me by that horror show, I’ve always been curious about Indie Beauty Expo, an event that showcases ...
Going into the Indie Beauty Expo in New York City a few weeks ago, I knew that it would be overwhelming—in a good way. It’s basically a giant beauty convention that highlights smaller, independently owned brands (hence its name). But as anyone who’s ever been to ...
It’s no secret that the beauty industry is rapidly changing day by day. Long gone are the days when you were restricted to the few household brand names everyone used (aka the only brands accessible to you). Nowadays, the average person has the opportunity to come up with a genius beauty idea, market it, and ...
Jillian Wright, Co-Founder of the Indie Beauty Media Group (IBMG), will moderate a panel of packaging industry experts and indie beauty insiders entitled Less And More: Meeting Indie Beauty Brands’ Packaging Needs, on September 17, day one of ADP&PCD New York. ADF&PCD New York interviewed Jillian Wright about her involvement in ...
On the third day of the Week of Independent Beauty New York 2019 in late August, Uplink Live was born. By the evening of the fourth, results were in: Uplink Live was not only a success, it was a hit. Now, Indie Beauty Media Group, which publishes ...
Tata Harper, Briogeo and Vapour were among the first 80 brands to participate in Indie Beauty Expo when it premiered at the Altman Building in New York five years ago. Since that time, they’ve reeled in investment, secured distribution at leading retailers, garnered praise in renowned beauty publications and entered into the consumer consciousness ...
Earlier this month over 240 beauty brands set up shop at Pier 94, a massive event location on Manhattan’s west side, at the fifth annual Indie Beauty Expo. Over the course of two days, retail buyers, journalists and bloggers, among others in the beauty industry met the people behind the ...
Each year, since 2015, the Indie Beauty Expo has put on a show filled with up-and-coming companies or smaller, founder-led brands. And each year, it seems seems to expand. The show is like a beauty discovery box come to life. At this year’s show, a whopping 240 brands from around the world filled a giant space in ...
