Adore Beauty

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Adore Beauty
ASX: ABY
Key people
  • Justin Ryan (Chairman)
Websiteadorebeauty.com.au

Adore Beauty (founded 2000) is Australia's first cosmetics retailer to sell exclusively online.[1] The company is based in Melbourne, Australia in the suburb of Northcote.[2]

History[]

The company was founded in 1999 by Kate Morris, a 21-year-old business student.[3] Morris used savings and an A$12,000 loan from her boyfriend's parents to start the business, which she ran out of her garage.[4][5] She found a company in the newspaper to build the first website, which cost A$8,000 and took six months.[6]

At first, the company only stocked two small Australian brands: Baiame and Santalia. The first mainstream brand, Bloom, signed on in 2002.[5] Clarins signed on in 2006.[6]

The company had a $2 million turnover by the end of 2010.[7] In 2014, the company secured a deal with Estee Lauder Companies to become an authorized agent for Clinique, Bobbi Brown and Estee Lauder brands.[8] That same year, the company earned over $7 million in revenue and ranked 29th in the Smart Company ‘Smart50’ Awards.[3] Morris won the Innovation Award for Victoria in the 2014 Telstra Women's Business Awards.[9]

In 2015, Australian retailer Woolworths Limited bought a 25% stake in the company for an undisclosed sum. The investment grew the company 70% over one year. Morris remains the CEO.[1][4]

As of 2016, the company turns over $16 million and carries 150 brands and 10,000 products.[6][10] The company is an official online stockist of Dermalogica, ghd, Clarisonic, Lancôme, Benefit Cosmetics, Aesop and Kérastase.[11] The company's Findation service, which compares 22,000 foundations to find the best match, has 1.5 million users.[12]

In 2016, the company began expanding into China through the Alibaba Group Tmall Global platform.[4][13]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Robb, Kirsten. "Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris: Why I sold a 25% stake in my $10 million business to Woolworths." Smart Company. 15 May 2015
  2. ^ Carmody, Broede. "Small business decides: Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris on the importance of high-speed internet." Smart Company. 26 May 2016
  3. ^ a b Villaneuva, Aaron Jefferson. "29: Adore Beauty." SmartCompany Awards 2014. 15 Sept. 2014
  4. ^ a b c Bogle, Ariel. "How to take a beauty website from an Australian garage to China." Mashable. 19 April 2016
  5. ^ a b Cain, Alexandra. "Beauty in the eye of the online shopper." The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 July 2010
  6. ^ a b c Smith, Fiona. "Adore Beauty’s Kate Morris founded a $16 million business on cosmetics and code." Financial Review. 18 May 2016
  7. ^ Carmody, Broede. "Four lessons in business success from Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris." Smart Company. 29 Jan. 2016
  8. ^ Robb, Kirsten. "How I snagged a deal with Estee Lauder." Smart Company. 4 Dec. 2014
  9. ^ Harper, Jane. "Woolworths snaps up 25 pc of online retailer Adore Beauty." The Courier Mail. 14 May 2015
  10. ^ Ainomugisha, Gerald. "This Australian e-commerce site is tapping into the $100 billion Chinese beauty market." Australian Anthill. 28 Apr. 2016
  11. ^ Hawkes, Helen. "Good grooming in one click." Financial Review. 23 July 2015
  12. ^ "Four Melbourne businesswomen reveal their secrets to success." The Herald Sun
  13. ^ Daquino, Laura. "Beauty Queen Eyes China." Business News Australia. 18 May 2016

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