The global cosmetic market was valued at $532.43bn in 2017 and is expected to reach $805.61bn by 2023. Within the sector, there’s an increasing shift towards natural makeup, ease of application and higher quality as...

Every year, when the time comes for me to nominate candidates for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Awards, I live in hope that someone doing something extraordinary will emerge. This year, though, I was...

Last Saturday, in the Namibian capital of Windhoek, the national men’s cricket team played host to Oman in a one-day international. For the home fans, an assured win saw their team crowned ICC World Cricket League...

There are certain things that have become part of my London history. Like the first time I went into the Harrods Foodhall and experienced the visual feast of retail theatre at its best, or the first time, in 1979 on...

When Josh Wood, one of the world’s premier hair colourists and founder of Josh Wood Colour completed his hairdressing one-year YTS training course in Barnsley, Yorkshire, the salon where he was training let him go...

The most recent research carried out by the Hampton-Alexander Review argued that while significant progress has been made toward the target of 33% of women on FTSE 350 boards by the end of 2020, there is still ‘some...

I first heard about Outdoor Voices, one of the most exciting and ground-breaking activewear brands in the market, from a friend based in San Francisco. A little bit of Googling told me all I needed to know about why...

I first met Stephanie just after she had returned to the UK following ten years ensconced in the New York fashion world. She had by that point risen rapidly, beginning at a PR startup before a role at Issey Miyake and...

In the latest in his Tech Q&A series, Stephen Rosenthal, Head of the Technology and Digital Practice at The MBS Group, met with Aron Gelbard, the founder and CEO of Bloom & Wild, the letterbox flowers and plants...