BeautyJungle.com Launches Beautywall, First e-Marketplace for Mass Beauty Industry.Business/Technology Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Online Ordering, Management Tools to Simplify Challenging $10-Billion Mass Beauty Market BeautyJungle.com Inc., a provider of e-commerce infrastructure services for the beauty industry, today launched Beautywall, the first online marketplace to help mass retailers better manage and optimize the performance of their beauty categories. By providing online ordering, brand information and industry news, Beautywall (www.beautywall.com) will help mass retailers increase sales and profits within this more than $10-billion category, which includes cosmetics, haircare, skincare and fragrances. "The color cosmetics category is among the most challenging retail categories to manage, with so many products, promotions and inventory-level issues," said John Devine John Devine is the name of:
Through Beautywall, retail beauty managers can view and order products from all the leading mass brands, get timely information on category performance, access industry news and events, and be alerted to new products, planograms and promotions directly from manufacturers. BeautyJungle.com built, owns and operates Beautywall, which was conceived through a strategic partnership with the Chain Drug Marketing Association (CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. ). The site is open to the nation's more than 60,000 drug, grocery and general merchandise stores, including CDMA's more than 5,500 member drugstores and chains. Easy to Join and Access "Beautywall addresses the challenge that every cosmetic manufacturer faces - providing all retailers timely access to the latest brand information," said Larry Aronson, president of Revlon Sales, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Our participation in Beautywall provides category managers easy access to our latest corporate and brand information through the site's Brand Resource Center." Beautywall currently represents 19 of the leading mass beauty brands, such as Olay, Revlon, L'Oreal, Maybelline and Max Factor. More than 4,000 products are featured on the site. While much of the site is open to all visitors, proprietary manufacturer information and wholesale prices are available only to retailers that register on Beautywall. Membership is free. Initially, BeautyJungle eBusiness Services will fill all Beautywall orders. More suppliers and partners are expected to participate in Beautywall later this year. Beautywall's integration team will help suppliers link their warehouse systems to the site to ensure real-time, online inventory status and efficient order processing. Inside the Beauty Category "Beautywall is working hard on behalf of retail beauty managers to make their jobs easier and more productive," said Alan Levin, president of Happy Harry's Happy Harry's, a Walgreens Pharmacy, is a division of the Walgreens Company which operates 76 locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. It was founded in 1962 by entrepreneur Harry Levin. , an East-coast based drugstore chain with 48 locations. "Beautywall addresses the needs of our category managers to stay on top of the many new products, promotions, planograms, and consumer trends that drive this important category." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. market research firm Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. Inc., drugstores typically generate about 10% of general merchandise revenue from their beauty categories. Sales could be higher as cosmetics out-of-stock rates average 7% to 15%, equating to roughly 1 in 5 of the most popular products unavailable for customer purchase. Out-of-stock beauty products negatively affect customer loyalty and store traffic, as shoppers seek to frequently replenish their favorite brands. Further complicating beauty management, the cosmetics category is the most SKU-intensive of all consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one segments, due to the wide range of colors not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color -- more than 100 in some cases -- that can comprise a single product line. "Mass beauty buyers have been asking for help, sending SOS SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as … — — — … (three dots, three dashes, three dots). signals for some time," Devine added. "Now, through Beautywall's deep resources and flexible purchasing options, retail managers can bring a new luster to this high-margin, high-contribution segment." Ordering from BeautyJungle A participant in Beautywall, BeautyJungle eBusiness Services provides a range of benefits to retail business customers that place orders through the site or its toll-free number: - Free UPS ground shipping - No minimum order size - Piece-pick capability (ordering in single SKUs) - No handling charges for orders greater than $200 About BeautyJungle.com eBusiness Services BeautyJungle eBusiness Services is a division of BeautyJungle.com Inc. Founded in 1999, BeautyJungle.com is a leading provider of e-commerce infrastructure services to the beauty industry. In addition to operating Beautywall, the eBusiness Services division provides eBoutique and eFulfillment services to manufacturers, retailers and distributors of beauty products, helping these businesses define and implement their online strategies as well as gain additional in-store efficiencies. The company also owns and operates a popular consumer beauty site, beautyjungle.com, which provides a wide selection of products from department-store to corner-store brands. BeautyJungle.com is among the associated companies associated company associate n → Partnerfirma f associated company n → società collegata of divine interVentures, inc., (Nasdaq: DVIN DVIN Dobermann Vrienden In Nederland (Dutch: Dobermann Friends in the Netherlands) DVIN Digital Video Input ) an Internet holding company. Based in Chicago, BeautyJungle.com has brand-marketing and editorial offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and a fulfillment and customer care center in Indianapolis, Indiana “Indianapolis” redirects here. For other uses, see Indianapolis (disambiguation). Indianapolis (IPA: [ˌɪndiəˈnæpəlɪs]) is the capital city of the U.S. . 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