Vancouver-based natural wellness and skincare company Saje has announced major retail expansion plans. In late November, the brand will open its first stateside location, in Malibu, California, with plans to add more than 25 locations along the West Coast and in New York in 2017. It’s also relaunching its e-commerce site, Saje.com, to sell directly to U.S. consumers.
Read MorePoland-based colour cosmetics manufacturer Inglot is expanding its number of retail locations in Canada. Since 2014, the company has had a stand-alone store in downtown Toronto (19 Dundas Square), adjacent to the high-traffic CF Toronto Eaton Centre, and on October 22 it opened a kiosk in CF Sherway Gardens, also in Toronto. A second kiosk is set to open in Markham’s CF Markville Mall on November 5.
Read MoreIn time for peak holiday gifting season, The Body Shop has opened a pop-up (93 Bloor Street West) in Toronto’s Yorkville shopping hub. Located a few steps east of where the retailer once had a long-standing store, it opened this month and will stay until January 31.
Read MoreRexall is evolving the way it sells beauty. Last week, the Canadian drugstore chain unveiled its first revamped cosmetics department at its Bathurst and Eglinton location (901 Eglinton Avenue West) in Toronto. With refreshed decor, an open layout and new brands, the “Inspired Beauty” concept signals Rexall’s enhanced efforts to stake its claim in the increasingly competitive beauty retail landscape.
Read MoreM.A.C Cosmetics will soon be returning to Toronto’s Queen Street West. The brand is slated to open its doors at 368 Queen Street West, just east of Spadina Avenue, at the end of October. This new location is about a block from M.A.C’s former space at 363 Queen Street West, which closed in 2015 and is now occupied by fast-growing L’Oréal makeup brand NYX.
Read MoreThe newly renovated, 9,146-square-foot location is only one of four stores in North America to be outfitted with the TIP concept (short for “Teach, Inspire, Play”), which debuted in San Francisco last November as a model for Sephora’s stores of the future. The retailer’s goal is to marry high-tech innovation with customer service, and to deliver the experiential offerings that today’s shoppers want.
Read MoreBorn and based in Toronto, Bite Beauty specializes in handmade lippies in on-trend shades using natural, food-grade ingredients. Now, following the popularity of its bespoke Lip Lab in New York, the company will bring the same concept home: the 2,800-square-foot, two-level Toronto space (678 Queen Street West) is slated to open at the beginning of September.
Read MoreCanadian M.A.C fans have a new reason to stay loyal to the Toronto-born makeup brand. As of this week, they can join its rewards program, M.A.C Select, which launched in the U.S. early this year.
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