Beauty and Hair Care


The Next Generation

Jacquelyn Tran learned the ropes of the fragrance industry from her parents' brick-and-mortar business. Then she built her own -- online.  Read story

Growing With Style

At Visible Changes, beauty parlors have become a fast-growth business.  Read story

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America

How John McCormack's unique approach to managing people and information produced one of this country's premier growth companies  Read story

The Cutting Edge

Profile of a start-up hair salon.  Read story

The Cutting Edge

Hair salons feature artwork and jazz music to enhance employees' creativity and pamper customers.  Read story

Hair Today. . .

A look at some technology that allows hair-salon customers to see how their hair will look before it's cut.  Read story

How I Did It: Bobbi Brown, Founder and CEO, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics

In New York in the excessive 1980s, Bobbi Brown made it big by pushing moderation. She became makeup artist to the stars by introducing a palette of natural ...  Read story

Hands-On Marketing

Revlon, Neutrogena, Oil of Olay. Their ads are plastered across women's magazines, and daytime television is just as much a venue for their skin-care prod...  Read story

Hair Today, Gone . . . Oh, Forget It

You can't fight city hall, but the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists is another matter, or so Caryl Barday discovered when she tried to set up an in-off...  Read story

The Best-managed Franchises in America

A profile of Gary Grace, whose 20 hair salons are the top performers in the Supercuts franchise chain.  Read story

License to Steal

One start-up increased sales by using an already established name for mass marketing.  Read story

Whose Brand Is It, Anyway?

Terri Williamson did a textbook job of launching Glow. Jennifer Lopez and her team did a textbook job of launching Glow by J.Lo. And then their worlds collided.  Read story

Too Hot To Handle: Going Under

"The whole thing collapsed on us."  Read story

Upstarts: Children's Hair Salons

Will tyke-friendly hair salons make big money tending to small fry with over-grown bangs?  Read story

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It was the volunteer fireman's vanity that made all the difference. Still in his early twenties, he combed through medical journals seeking a cure f...  Read story

Office Services

Time-management tip: Have your barber, manicurist, masseuse, or detailer come to your shop, not you to their's.  Read story

Beauty on a Budget

Entrepreneurs selling discount beauty products get a boost from econochic women.  Read story

Tap the Untapped Billion-Dollar Co-Op Fund

Co-op advertising is a cost-sharing arrangement between a manufacturer and a retailer for customers' advertising programs. Collectively, manufacturers ear...  Read story

The Real-life Factor

It has always seemed incredible to me that appraisers who are valuing multinational companies or fine art worth millions of dollars can literally hang up ...  Read story

Highway Beautification

A famous bar for motorcycle enthusiasts markets its own brand of cologne.  Read story

A Plan That Makes Scents

An empty bottle will get a return. That, at least, was what Ronald Senkirk, vice-president and general manager of the $10-million Parfums Caron U.S. divi...  Read story

Hot Tip: Signing bonuses

Thanks to a tight labor market, signing bonuses for new employees are becoming increasingly common. "You don't have to be Bill Gates or Michael Jordan to ...  Read story

Marketing;

If you depend on third parties for sales, you want to give them reasons for moving your product. That may mean helping them to market themselves while th...  Read story

Are We Having Fun Yet?

John Paul Mitchell Systems is a new-wave profit machine with few moving parts and a direct connection to Paradise  Read story

Animal Preserve

The Bear Care Company sells bubble bath for stuffed animals.  Read story

The 1999 Business Brokers' Dog List

Although the market has generally been strong for small-business sales, certain types of companiesare languishing. Some examples: f...  Read story

Kidding Around

New company markets premium toiletries to children.  Read story

Soapy Sales

New company test markets a combination body soap and shampoo, called ShamSoap.  Read story

Archive: Moolah Rouge

How Revlon launched a line of "affordable luxuries" in the heart of the Great Depression.  Read story

Letter from the Editor

Limited access to capital can actually make business owners smarter and their companies stronger. If you doubt this, read our cover story on Inc. 's ...  Read story

The Selling of Ethics

Two hair-care competitors trade jabs on whether or not it's ethical to advertise a company's political correctness.  Read story

Case Study #3: The Taste Maker

The Start-up: Ventana Health The Founder: Tim Avila San Clemente, California The business proposition:Read story

HR Watch: The ADA, Casinos and Bars, and Wall Postings

Employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by giving job applicants medical exam before conducting background check. Th...  Read story

New Blood Adds A Blush To Cosmetics Business

The chic world of the cosmetics industry always celebrates youth, but lately it has shown a few of its own jowls and wrinkles. Sales in 1983, adjusted fo...  Read story

Get A Whiff Of This

Creative Environments Inc. founder plans to expand product fragrancing company.  Read story

HDS Cosmetics, - Inc. Article

HDS Cosmetics Location: Yonkers, N.Y. 2002 Revenue: $9.9 million Grow...  Read story

The Young and the Restless

Entrepreneurship keeps getting cooler, and the entrepreneurs keep getting younger. Meet five of our favorites.  Read story

Cutting a New Deal

Recruiting new customers is expensive. That's why Ron Provenzano, co-owner of $5.2-million Zano's Hair Design, in Naperville, Ill., finds it more profitab...  Read story

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Leanna Archer, Leanna's

12 Leanna Archer Leanna's Age: 12 Location:...  Read story

Get Publicity and Bolster Profits through Public Speaking

One of the best ways to promote your product or service and expand your customer base is also one of the cheapest. Interested? It's public speaking. I kno...  Read story

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