MJH Life Sciences Acquires NewBeauty from SANDOW Media

PAI Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Beautynova

March 18, 2024

Consumer Products

PAI Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Beautynova, the Milan‑headquartered professional haircare platform, from Bluegem Capital Partners. Bluegem will retain a significant minority holding alongside a syndicate of co‑investors; PAI will support Beautynova's international expansion and brand development across the US and Europe.

Sandow Acquires Design Milk

June 21, 2023

Media & Entertainment

Sandow, the New York–based publishing group, has acquired online design platform Design Milk. The financial terms were not disclosed; Sandow said Design Milk's staff (including editor-in-chief Caroline Williamson) will remain in place and that the company plans to invest in the brand and focus on growing its digital audience and ad revenue.

MJH Life Sciences Acquires Mesmerize Media from The Beekman Group

February 15, 2023

Media & Entertainment

MJH Life Sciences has acquired Mesmerize Media, a point-of-care healthcare media and patient-education platform, from an affiliate of The Beekman Group (Beekman Investment Partners II, LP). Under Beekman's ownership Mesmerize transformed from an out-of-home advertising business into a leading healthcare media platform; MJH will integrate Mesmerize's point-of-care and OOH capabilities into its portfolio to expand its healthcare media and marketing offerings.

AS Beauty Acquires Mally Beauty

March 9, 2021

Consumer Products

AS Beauty, a New York–based beauty operator, has acquired Mally Beauty, the cosmetics brand founded by celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal. The acquisition will expand AS Beauty’s portfolio and aims to grow Mally Beauty’s distribution and e-commerce presence across retail and televised shopping channels.

MJH Life Sciences Acquires Pharmaceutical Commerce

July 9, 2020

Media & Entertainment

MJH Life Sciences has acquired Pharmaceutical Commerce, a multimedia B2B publication formerly published by Healthcare Commerce Media Corporation. The acquisition expands MJH’s healthcare media portfolio and strengthens its reach into the biopharma commercial operations and supply-chain audience, adding a magazine with a controlled circulation of roughly 21,000 and multiple newsletters and events.

ACON Investments Acquires JD Beauty Co. and Merges it with Goody Products

March 21, 2019

Consumer Products

ACON Investments has acquired JD Beauty Co., the owner of WetBrush, Bio Ionic and Ouidad, from Topspin Partners and will merge it with Goody Products (an ACON-owned platform). The combined company will create a multi-brand haircare accessories, styling tool and liquid products platform to accelerate product innovation, distribution and global growth; financial terms were not disclosed.