In Asia, beauty box companies are the next Clone Rush
Glossybox is possibly the largest beauty box company in the world. Photo: Glossybox As the daily deals fever dies down, entrepreneurs in Asia have been on the lookout on the next big idea. It looks...
View ArticleAs Rocket Internet’s Glossybox retreats from parts of Asia, VanityTrove and...
Glossybox, a beauty box clone by Rocket Internet, is by many metrics a wild success. The subscription commerce company recently revealed that it had shipped 2 million boxes to customers in its first...
View ArticleSubscription commerce service Bellabox raises USD1.4M series A round
Image: Bellabox Australia’s Bellabox announced today that it has raised a USD 1.4M (AUD 1.3M) series A round, led by Lance Kalish, co-founder of skincare brand Yes To Carrots and Elevation Capital...
View ArticleBeauty box startup VanityTrove acquires Rocket Internet’s Glossybox Taiwan
Following an announcement of its expansion into Taiwan, Singapore’s VanityTrove has today revealed that it has acquired Glossybox Taiwan for an undisclosed sum. For Glossybox, a Rocket Internet...
View ArticleMediaCorp launches beauty box service; joins fashion e-commerce bandwagon
MediaCorp, a government-linked media company in Singapore, has a poor record in e-commerce businesses. Its attempt at daily deals crashed and burned, while its online bookstore venture ilovebooks.com...
View ArticleLolabox vs BeautyTreats: Two New Beauty Box Startups Launch in Indonesia...
(Updated on April 18th: BeautyTreats launched last month. The article incorrectly stated that the startup launched on the same date with Lolabox. We apologize for the confusion.) Lolabox, a startup...
View ArticleSingapore’s VanityTrove acquires Glamybox to enter Vietnam
Singapore beauty subscription service VanityTrove has acquired Glamybox, a similar company from Vietnam. This deal gives VanityTrove a foot in the door to Vietnam’s USD 372M cosmetics industry. Terms...
View ArticleIs beauty subscription e-commerce Asia’s next hot trend?
It is well known that women are among the most voracious and influential online groups. They’re online more often, and they are avid purchasers. In Asia, that’s especially true with women, where...
View Article5 ideas to make Mom happy on Thai Mother’s Day
Monday, August 12th is Queen Sirikit’s birthday so it’s Mother’s Day in the Kingdom of Thailand. Nope, our Mother’s Day is not the same day as other countries. If you totally forgot the day is almost...
View Article5 Rocket Internet graduates link their expertise with these 2 startups
From the left – Cynthia Chaerunnisa, Christian Sutardi, Bede Moore, Susie Sugden, and Mario Suntanu German web business dynamo Rocket Internet has been making its mark quite strongly in the Indonesian...
View ArticleBeautyTreats can’t rely on only beauty boxes in Indonesia, opens cosmetics...
BeautyTreats is one of the first startups testing the Indonesian market for monthly beauty box subscriptions. It’s been met with steady yet slow growth in the last six months, and so the BeautyTreats...
View ArticleBeauty boxes, a once great ecommerce trend in Asia, has unraveled
Subscription services were supposed to be the next big thing in ecommerce. The concept, in which consumers pay a monthly fee in order to have products delivered to their home, was elegant and easy to...
View ArticleIndonesian beauty box startup Lolabox announces shutdown
While last April marked Indonesian beauty box startup Lolabox’s first anniversary, only one month later the startup faces a more somber occasion: it just announced that it has sent out its last box to...
View ArticleIn Asia, beauty box companies are the next Clone Rush
Many beauty box companies in Asia have risen to prominence. The question is whether they can sustain their momentum.
View ArticleAs Rocket Internet’s Glossybox retreats from parts of Asia, VanityTrove and...
Glossybox has had some missteps. Namely, it entered Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia, only to withdraw after realizing the markets aren't as plump as it thought they would be.
View ArticleSubscription commerce service Bellabox raises USD1.4M series A round
Subscription commerce is taking Asia by storm. Bellabox has shipped 60,000 boxes to date since December 2012.
View ArticleBeauty box startup VanityTrove acquires Rocket Internet’s Glossybox Taiwan
Taiwan is just the latest destination in VanityTrove's aggressive expansion phase. Starting out of Singapore in December 2011, the company has expanded to Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
View ArticleLolabox vs BeautyTreats: Two New Beauty Box Startups Launch in Indonesia...
(Updated on April 18th: BeautyTreats launched last month. The article incorrectly stated that the startup launched on the same date with Lolabox. We apologize for the confusion.) Lolabox, a startup...
View ArticleSingapore’s VanityTrove acquires Glamybox to enter Vietnam
Singapore beauty subscription service VanityTrove has acquired Glamybox, a similar company from Vietnam. This deal gives VanityTrove a foot in the door to Vietnam’s USD 372M cosmetics industry. Terms...
View ArticleIs beauty subscription e-commerce Asia’s next hot trend?
Beauty subscription commerce seems to be the next wave of promising startups that are hitting the Asian continent. Will the momentum continue?
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