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https://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Article/2025/01/16/beauty-innovation-for-ozempic-face/?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22-Jan-2025&cid=DM1187837&bid=601787649

Beauty innovation for ‘Ozempic face’ Semaglutide drugs like Ozempic have caused users issues with wrinkling, sagging, and generally looking older, which means there are opportunities to help with this issue, dubbed 'Ozempic Face'.

https://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Beauty-kitchen-to-launch-1-000-refill-stations-across-the-uk,1184989.html
Love this initiative

Beauty Kitchen to launch 1,000 refill stations across the UK ​A project aiming to tackle the issue of single use plastic in the beauty industry will roll out thousands of cosmetics vending machines across busy high streets, retail stores, university campuses and train stations.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/02/06/coronavirus-florida-lobster-industry/

The coronavirus will impact us all in some way. Watch out for broken supply chains and profit warnings as well as the terrible cost to human life.

Coronavirus Slams Florida’s Lobster Industry China's coronavirus is causing the lobster season to end early for many lobstermen of the Florida Keys.

This caught our attention...

Amazon paid a tax rate of just 1.2% last year, versus 14% for average Americans Company's $162 million federal tax bill — on $13.3 billion in U.S. profits — was the most it has paid in three years.

https://chainstoreage.com/sephora-preps-record-setting-store-expansion?utm_source=omeda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NL_CSA_Real+Estate&utm_keyword=&oly_enc_id=3448A4974023H5W

Sephora preps for record-setting store expansion A specialty beauty retailer will open the most North American stores in a single year in its history.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/beauty-industry-plastic-pollution-environment-climate-change-cosmetics-a8697951.html
It's about time to work on reducing waste.

Is the beauty industry doing enough to tackle plastic pollution? The beauty sector generated over 142 billion units of packaging last year – most of which ended up in landfill or the ocean. But are major corporations doing enough to kick the habit, asks Jessica Morgan

https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/amazon-skandal-greenpeace-prangert-zerstoerung-von-retouren-an/23928656.html?xing_share=news

Basically, Amazon is systematically destroying huge numbers of perfectly good returned items in Germany. Greenpeace and German Federal govt now investigating the practice.

Amazon-Skandal: Greenpeace prangert Zerstörung von Retouren an WirtschaftsWoche und ZDF hatten im vergangenen Sommer darüber berichtet, dass Amazon massenhaft neue Ware vernichtet. Greenpeace macht nun mobil.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190125-focus-on-how-you-work-not-why

Read this. It is good.

Focus on how you work, not why How you can feel more fulfilled, and less anxious, on the job.