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Tuesday, April 29

Beauty

CEW Achiever Awards Turn 50

CEW's annual honoring of top female leadership in the beauty industry is turning 50.

The semicentennial iteration of CEW's Achiever Awards touches on a bevy of trends defining the beauty industry today, with the organization looking beyond brands to honor retailers, innovators and, in this year's case, a preeminent banker and a tech founder.

"These women are in leadership positions, leading brands. I don't know if we could have said that years ago," Jacobson said of the progress toward gender parity in beauty in the past five decades. "The leadership is more diverse, we're honoring people in adjacent businesses, and we aim to reflect the composition of the industry now across large and small businesses."

Elsewhere, see the latest Puig earnings and Alix Earle and Pantene are joining forces. — Kathryn Hopkins, senior beauty editor, WWD

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