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Naturals Salons unveils beauty 2.0 in partnership with SkinQ dermo-cosmetics
Mumbai: Naturals Salons, India’s Largest salon chain with over 740 Salons SkinQ, a made safe certified, dermatologist formulated, active skin & hair solutions brand, have joined hands to forge a ground breaking partnership to redefine beauty services in India. Under the partnership, SkinQ products for skin & hair treatments will be integrated into the Naturals chain of salons. The first-of-its-kind partnership will see upskilling of Naturals’ personnel and offering of specialized medi-facial treatments in the salon chain, pioneered by SkinQ.
Naturals Salon has the pioneering professional salon heritage in the industry as it introduced the concept of professional salon category more than 2 decades ago – creating what it is now an Rs 100 billion. Now after 23 years the company once again reveals its beauty salon leadership by not only elevating beauty to medical beauty but also transforming the image of beauty stylists to aestheticians by providing the highest level of training and skilling. SkinQ, spearheaded by celebrity dermatologist Dr Chytra Anand, is India’s made safe certified, dermatologist formulated, active skin & hair solutions brand renowned for its commitment to skin health and innovation.
Speaking about this, Naturals Salons founder Veena Kumaravel said, “At Naturals, our mission has always been super-serving customers with their beauty needs, and our deep experience and leadership in professional salon industry allowed us to completely revisit and reinvent the beauty treatments experience at our salons. Today’s historic announcement will allow our salons to offer innovative and clinically validated medi-facials, which are performed using the specialized SkinQ Active facial kits. Combining the unique leadership of inventing certified medi-Facial kits for Indian skin types by SkinQ with Naturals’ heritage of providing highly skilled beauty services, we hope our will serve as even more helpful one-stop destination for a range of beauty as well as aesthetic services that will fulfil the beauty aspirations of our customers. I also congratulate all our stylists for going through a positive transformation – from a stylist to aesthetician.”
Adding further, SkinQ founder Dr Chytra Anand said, “We are thrilled to partner with Natural Salons to introduce this innovative concept of medi-facials to revolutionize the beauty industry. Our Beauty 2.0 mission aims to elevate beauty to medical beauty. It will empower beauty professionals with the knowledge and tools to offer more than just traditional beauty treatments – a holistic, skin-first experience.”
Naturals Salons co-founder and CEO Mr CK Kumaravel added, “I congratulate the team at Naturals Salons and SkinQ for this historic collaboration, and this is a tremendous opportunity for everyone involved to be part of building the ultimate transformation in the Indian professional salon segment that creates positive change for customers, franchises, stylists, and industry as a whole. I see it as the perfect amalgamation of nurturing touch of medical beauty treatments with the precision of our beauty experts, and the effectiveness of SkinQ’s medical-grade beauty formulations.”
As a part of the initiative, SkinQ will provide comprehensive training to Natural Salons’ aestheticians. The training will focus on enhancing the aesthetician’s knowledge by providing them in-depth knowledge of the various Indian skin types, the common concerns, and effective methods that enable precise identification of the skin condition. There is also the provision of hands-on practical training and extensive product knowledge sharing to ensure the highest quality of service to every customer.
This collaboration aims to go beyond the scope of a business partnership to become a joint effort towards transforming the beauty sector in India. The clinically proven products from SkinQ and the expertise of Natural Salons’ aestheticians will bring about advanced skin care solutions that are safe, unique, and effective. It is time to upgrade the standards to Medical Beauty with medi-facials.
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WPP appoints Guillaume Epstein as its global head of commercial
Publicis veteran to streamline pricing, contracts and client deals globally
LONDON: WPP has created a new global commercial leadership role and appointed Guillaume Epstein to lead it, according to media reports, as the company looks to simplify client deals and strengthen commercial operations.
In his new role as global head of commercial, Epstein is expected to oversee pricing structures, contract frameworks and client negotiations across markets. The move points to WPP’s growing focus on making its commercial approach more streamlined and consistent worldwide.
Epstein joins from Publicis Groupe, where he spent close to four years in senior leadership roles, including global commercial finance director and chief operating officer for Brazil. His work there covered financial strategy, operational efficiency and client profitability across multiple regions.
Prior to that, he held key roles across Asia Pacific within Publicis, including chief commercial officer for Apac and regional client finance director. During this period, he helped build regional hubs, standardise pricing models and manage complex, multi-country client relationships across markets such as Singapore, China and Hong Kong.
He also brings experience from Valtech, adding digital transformation expertise to his commercial skill set.
At Publicis, Epstein played a key role in developing multi-country rate cards, improving financial processes and creating training programmes around negotiation and pricing strategy. His work also focused on unlocking new revenue streams through digital and analytics capabilities.
The newly created role at WPP comes at a time when global agencies are under pressure to offer more transparent, efficient and scalable commercial models to clients.
With Epstein’s appointment, WPP appears to be fine-tuning its commercial engine, aiming to make client partnerships simpler, sharper and more aligned with evolving market needs.
