BENGALURU — In
its commitment to provide impetus to made-in-India homegrown beauty and
personal care brands Myntra recently hosted the first edition of
one-of-its-kind ‘Myntra Rising Stars (MRS) Beauty Summit’.
The last few years have witnessed the transformative journey
of the beauty industry in the country with the emergence of hundreds of
homegrown brands catering to the evolving beauty needs of customers through
differentiated offerings.
Bringing this thriving ecosystem together, the MRS Beauty
Summit celebrated the entrepreneurial spirit of the brands with some notable
names including Innovist, Honasa Consumer Limited, Mcaffeine, Hyphen,
Minimalist, SUGAR, Bombay Shaving Company, Foxtale, Pilgrim, Deconstruct, and
FAE Beauty among many others.
“As Myntra steps into its 18th year, we stand committed to
building fashion and beauty for the country. Our journey is powered by the love
of 70 million monthly active customers and the trust of over 9700 brands.
Today, we stand at the cusp of a transformative era, as the beauty landscape in
India is set to witness its next phase of growth and the homegrown D2C beauty
and personal care brands will play a pivotal role in taking the industry
forward,” said Sharon Pais, Chief Business Officer, Myntra.
“Through Myntra Rising Stars, we aim to provide a platform
for their unique propositions to reach millions of customers across the country
in the most seamless manner,” Pais added.
The Myntra Rising Stars Beauty Summit 2024 also provided a
platform for insightful discussions and fireside chats, including a knowledge
session by Shyam Unnikrishnan, Partner, Bain & Co., who presented a
detailed analysis of the evolution of India’s beauty landscape.
He highlighted that the $21-23 billion Indian beauty and
personal care market is rapidly transforming, and premiumising, with online
sales set to triple to $10 billion in the next five years, creating massive
opportunities for insurgent and D2C brands to lead innovation and capture
evolving consumer demand.
Nandita Sinha, CEO of Myntra engaged Ghazal Alagh,
Co-Founder of Honasa Consumer Limited in a fireside conversation and
highlighted the rise in the adoption of I-Beauty in the country and also how
Indian entrepreneurs are making strides in creating world-class products,
leveraging the country’s rich legacy of ingredient-based solutions, for the
diverse consumers of the country and possibly for the world.
Key highlights of the summit included the three-panel
discussions bringing insights from the various facets of the industry.
Panel titled India’s Beauty Industry: Cracking the Code,
featured Sujata Assomul, Journalist & Author, Karishma Kewalramni,
Founder FAE Beauty, Rohit Chawla, Founder, Innovist, Bare Anatomy, Chemist at
Play, SunScoop, Vaishali Gupta, Co-founder, and Chief Growth Officer at
Mcaffeine and Hyphen and Romita Mazumdar, Founder, and CEO of Foxtale.
The panel delved into solutions for overcoming challenges in
the internet beauty space, exploring topics such as leveraging AI for customer personalisation,
tapping into tier-II and tier-III markets, and aligning products with the growing
demand for conscious beauty.
The discussion also shed light upon strategies for retaining
customers and building inclusive, sustainable brands in the competitive D2C
landscape.
Followed by this was another engaging panel discussion on
Decoding The Behaviour of Gen Z Consumers, featuring Meghna Apparao, Director
of E-commerce at Meta, Kannagi Anaggh Desai, Beauty Editor, Elle India, actress
Ahsaas Channa and Sunder Balasubramanian, CMO at Myntra, explored how GenZ has
emerged as the next big cohort for brands and what builds resonance with them.
The summit concluded with its third investor-focused
discussion on Inside the Investors’ Mind, featuring leaders Dipanjan Basu,
Co-Founder & Partner at Fireside Ventures, Hariharan Premkumar,
Managing Director & Head of India at DSG Consumer Partners, and Kaushik
Mukherjee, Co-Founder, SUGAR Cosmetics, shared their insights into what drives
investment decisions in the D2C beauty space.
Myntra’s Rising Stars programme, launched first for fashion
last year, expanded to include beauty brands a few months back with the mission
to accelerate their growth and help them in brand building.
Several brands that are part of the Rising Stars programme
are already witnessing noteworthy growth, with some clocking impressive growth
rates. With a strong set of 300 brands already on the Myntra Rising Stars
Beauty Edit, about 200 new brands are expected to join the programme in the
next couple of months.
