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Subscription services for cosmetics have faltered. That hasn’t stopped new ones in different niches from popping up though.

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

VanityTrove seems to think that the beauty box subscription market in Vietnam is over $1 billion, but is it really worth that much?

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

Beauty subscription commerce seems to be the next wave of promising startups that are hitting the Asian continent. Will the momentum continue?

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 of the

News has hit this week that Indonesia has become the new battleground for beauty box companies — a type of subscription service where customers receive a box of cosmetics samples

On a peaceful and lazy Saturday afternoon, beauty box subscription commerce startup VanityTrove announced that it has acquired Glossybox in Taiwan, a company part of Rocket Internet. The CEO of

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.

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.