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04-02-2021 09:18 AM
This has probably been answered many times on the forums but I can't easily find it. Wondering why a company buys out a very successful company then changes formulas from what was working. I'm speaking directly to Coty and Philosophy but I imagine it happens frequently. Seems to me that if a product is so successful that a company would want to buy the other company, they'd do everything to keep the original products. I don't pretend to know anything about retail business and am asking a genuine question. I miss the old Philosophy products and the wonderful scents they used to have. If I had a product I worked hard to produce and put my all into, no matter how much a company would pay me, it would bother me that the products are now not the same calibre.
04-02-2021 09:32 AM
Could be they want to manufacture a new and improved line. Could be to save money. Who knows?
04-02-2021 09:40 AM
@Carolina925 wrote:This has probably been answered many times on the forums but I can't easily find it. Wondering why a company buys out a very successful company then changes formulas from what was working. I'm speaking directly to Coty and Philosophy but I imagine it happens frequently. Seems to me that if a product is so successful that a company would want to buy the other company, they'd do everything to keep the original products. I don't pretend to know anything about retail business and am asking a genuine question. I miss the old Philosophy products and the wonderful scents they used to have. If I had a product I worked hard to produce and put my all into, no matter how much a company would pay me, it would bother me that the products are now not the same calibre.
I agree with you, but don't know the answer.
I'm also disappointed in Philosophy and no longer buy. Maybe if these companies go out of business they will take a hint. I doubt it though.
04-02-2021 09:40 AM
In the era of "clean beauty", to make the products without the "bad stuff".
Many of Christina Carlino's formulas had ingredients deemed undesirable by today's standards.
04-02-2021 09:45 AM
I assume the buyer wishes to expand the customer base while simultaneously using cheaper ingredients.
Seems to work at times, like IT or Paula's or Tatcha.
04-02-2021 09:58 AM
04-02-2021 10:00 AM
@Desertdi , gosh I didn't realize it had been that long! Guess that explains how I got so old, I've been missing some years
04-02-2021 10:03 AM
@Carolina925 wrote:@Desertdi , gosh I didn't realize it had been that long! Guess that explains how I got so old, I've been missing some years
@Carolina925 I didn't realize today was Friday.....until I turned on the TV.......
04-02-2021 10:05 AM
@Desertdi , when I forget what day it is, I just say it must not be important. Seems I'm in good company here
04-02-2021 10:35 AM
Your posts made me laugh and glad to hear we have company. I misspoke on the day of the week on a post and fellow poster made fun of it with a side eye cat gif and asked what planet I was on. Your posts are more fun lol, easy to mix up the days especially this last year.
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