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Brick-and-mortar beauty growth shakes up industry
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Multi-brand and vertically integrated beauty stores are shaking up the beauty industry — and growing at a rapid rate.With hundreds of new doors opening in various formats, such cosmetics specialty and vertically integrated stores as Ulta, Sephora, Bluemercury, NYX, Kiko Milano, and e.l.f., have grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 19% over the past five years, according to a report by research and consulting firm Kline. Such stores now account for an estimated 20% of total beauty market sales. -
CVS Health brings all-girls softball team to Fenway Park
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health and the Boston Red Sox on Monday teamed up to bring an all-girls softball team to Fenway park for the CVS Health Batting Camp. Members of the Suffield, Conn., Pink Pugs got to learn from Red Sox hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez, completed an on-field batting practice, posed for photos in front of the Green Monster, and had lunch in the Red Sox dugout.