Investment, Innovation
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The Council offers a range of educational resources and investment opportunities to aid brands and businesses. It also engages with policy makers and other stakeholders, to propel development of the industry to ensure it remains at the cutting edge of British business.Â
Pillar President:
Renee Parker
Co-Founder and Director of Strategy, Invinci Group
Renee leads the strategic advisory practice for premium brands and investors shaping their global Amazon and marketplace strategies. Prior to Invinci, Renee led Amazon UK’s Premium Beauty business for four years where she drove business development, category strategy and top pan-EU vendor performance.
Renee is an Operating Partner at the beauty-focused European Private Equity Fund, Cedar Bridge. She is active in the start-up community as an angel investor and advisor, focused on female and underrepresented founders, and serves a range of start-ups as a Huckletree Ambassador. She holds her Diploma in Cosmetic Science from the UK Society of Cosmetic Scientists, of which she is an active member. She is frequently featured as a keynote speaker and panellist (INNOCOS, IMF, Amazon Beauty x British Vogue, Beauty Tech London, Beauty Matter, Professional Beauty London, D2C Live, etc) and has served as a Special Jurist for Cosmoprof Bologna Awards. Renee was identified as a Top 100 Female Entrepreneur to Watch in 2022 by The Telegraph.
Renee earned her MBA in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Before joining the beauty industry, Renee pursued a decade-long career in impact investing and emerging markets sales and trading at J.P. Morgan, New York, and Deutsche Bank, London.
Venrex BBCO I – Investment fundÂ
Are you a brand or business looking for investment? The British Beauty Council is pleased to be collaborating with London and New York-based venture capital firm Venrex on a fund designed to back extraordinary and ambitious founders.
Venrex has previously backed beauty businesses including Charlotte Tilbury, Lisa Eldridge, VIEVE, Get The Gloss and Frog Stack.Â
The fund, Venrex BBCo I, is designed to back brands set to characterise the future of the beauty industry. It has the potential to support the next problem-solving cosmetic product, supply chain time-saver, or planet-friendly packaging solution. At the pre-seed to series A stage, investment is focused on founders building high-growth potential businesses backed by unique drive and vision.Â
Read the full release below or get in touch with the team to learn more about the investment opportunity:
The Value of Beauty, 3rd Edition
In 2024, the British Beauty Council commissioned Oxford Economics to refresh its analysis of the economic contribution of the beauty industry and how it has evolved. The report covers 2023 performance and a forecast for 2024.
For press enquires contact: grace@britishbeautycouncil.com
The Business of Beauty
Protecting the Brand, Surviving the Restructuring Challenge
Elevate your Business with Design and Branding
The Value of Beauty 2023
SUMMARY REPORT
Following the initial Value of Beauty report in 2019, the British Beauty Council commissioned Oxford Economics to refresh its analysis of the economic contribution of the beauty industry and how it has evolved over the last three years.
The report is open-source.
For patron enquiries contact: jacqui@britishbeautycouncil.com
For press enquires contact: grace@britishbeautycouncil.com
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