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Drew Barrymore Sets New Sights For Beauty Brand

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 20 Jan, 2016 01:28 PM
    NEW YORK — Hollywood actress, director and author Drew Barrymore may soon add a new title to her resume: international retailer.
     
    Barrymore launched her Flower brand of affordable cosmetics exclusively at Wal-Mart in 2013. Now she says she's in talks with retailers overseas to sell the cosmetics in such places as China, South America, Australia and the United Kingdom. She'll also be launching her own e-commerce business later this year.
     
    Last year, she started selling an eyewear collection, also exclusively with Wal-Mart. And Barrymore told The Associated Press earlier this week she wants to expand into clothing, though it's unlikely it will be with Wal-Mart, even though she said she will always give the Bentonville, Arkansas-based discounter "first right of refusal."
     
    Barrymore didn't want to use her name for the brand, saying she's aware of the perils of a slapping celebrity name on a product.
     
    "The name of the game is about how you financially succeed fast enough so somebody doesn't dump you, and grow slowly and thoughtfully so that you are just not a flash in the pan," said Barrymore, 40, in a one-hour address at the annual Financo CEO forum, an industry forum sponsored by the investment bank on Monday. Her father-in-law Arie Kopelman, the former president of Chanel, led the discussion in a room full of several hundred fashion industry executives.
     
    Barrymore, the mother of two toddlers, has found a successful niche in the beauty business. Unlike other cosmetic brands that spend a big portion of their money on advertising, the Flower brand spends most of its money on formulations and packaging. That results in premium makeup quality, she said. Flower Beauty, launched in 1,600 stores, is now in 2,500 stores, according to Wal-Mart spokeswoman Molly Blakeman. Neither Barrymore nor Wal-Mart offered sales volume.
     
     
    The Flower Beauty line, which includes fragrances, ranges from $5 for lip gloss to about $14 for foundation. Barrymore's message is about self-empowerment and inner beauty, with messages like, "Happiness is the best makeup."
     
    Wal-Mart says that the Flower eyewear is in all its stores that have vision centres, which number close to 3,000. Barrymore said it is the No. 1 brand of eyewear at the discounter, although Wal-Mart could not confirm that publicly. It ranges in price from $39 to $88.
     
    Wal-Mart, she said, has been a "great" partner. But, she added, "at the end of the day, it is business. It is not friendship. They will drop us like a hot potato if we are not doing well."
     
    As for her clothing venture, Barrymore, known for her Bohemian chic style, noted she won't be offering expensive clothes. "It's not the way I shop," she said.
     
    Barrymore says that she gets inspiration from a lot of sources for her beauty collection
     
    "You will look at a woman's shoe and be inspired by the colour," she said. "I am always looking at everything for pigments and colours. The other day I took my daughter's paint and I couldn't stop playing with it ... I think whatever keeps you up at night ... that is what you should be doing. And if it feels like you are forcing yourself to be inspired by it, that's the wrong road."

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