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Retail Asia16/08/2022

Amazon.com will invest in istyle, the company behind the @cosme review and retail site, gaining access to the Japanese beauty product vendor’s trove of user reviews. Under the agreement announced Monday, istyle will issue 2.5 billion yen ($18.7 million) in convertible bonds as well as 11.5 billion yen in warrants to Amazon on Sept. 6. […]

Retail Asia20/12/2018

Tokyo retailer Istyle will open its fourth @Cosme store in Hong Kong this Friday. The new outlet will be launching as a specialty cosmetics store in East Point City mall in Tseung Kwan O, which has recently emerging as a shopping spot across a range of age groups. The first of Istyle’s four stores to […]

Retail Asia02/03/2017

Japanese online cosmetic store @Cosme is to open a brick-and-mortar store in Taiwan in May. It is the spearhead of a plan by its owner, Istyle, to open stores across Asia. Istyle began opening @cosme stores in Japan in 2007, bringing together drugstore and specialty store brands. The chain grew from a website that gained […]

Retail Asia22/10/2015

The Japanese online beauty retailer @Cosme has bought a stake in Singapore website Vanitee, described as a “digital marketplace for beauty artists”. Neither the value of the investment, or the size of the stake acquired was disclosed by either party. Vanitee was founded just 12 months ago by Douglas Gan, Kuik Xiaoshi and Choy Peng […]

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Amazon to invest in Japanese beauty retailer Istyle

iStyle opens Fourth Hong Kong @cosme store

@Cosme hitting debut in Taiwan

Japanese beauty e-tailer takes slice of Vanitee