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...could almost feel sorry for Mr. Matthews—few artists face the same comparisons he does on Some Devil, his first solo outing. These he neatly sidesteps by opting for a sound that is clearly distinct from Dave Matthews Band (DMB), recruiting a horn section and employing some lush string arrangements. Throughout, the spotlight stays resolutely on Matthews’ voice, by turns growling and sweetly falsetto...
Indeed, sales at the privately held company, based in Poole, England, have nearly doubled over the past two years, to $62 million, and the future is so bright that Lush offered to buy Constantine's much bigger former employer, Body Shop International, which has more than 1,900 outlets in 50 countries. After spending much of the '80s working on contract to develop products for the Body Shop, Constantine parted ways before the company got pounded in the U.S. by cut-rate copycats like Limited Brands' Bath & Body Works. In 2001, around the time Body Shop founder Anita Roddick described...
...Lush first made its way to North America thanks to brokerage scion Mark Wolverton of Canada's Wolverton Securities. While vacationing in London in 1995, Wolverton happened upon Constantine's irreverent new beauty deli and the following spring opened Lush's first joint venture outside Britain, in Vancouver. But it took Wolverton, 40, now CEO of Lush North America, six years to persuade Constantine to venture south of the border. "We honed our skills in rollouts in other countries," says Wolverton, "places that were less litigious, where there was less red tape." To help kick North America into gear...
...were already widely available in top-tier department stores, set up a stand-alone boutique in San Francisco. Kiehl's has since moved into a handful of other U.S. cities, but don't look for it in your local mall anytime soon. Likewise, by the end of next year, Lush plans to open an additional 100 stores worldwide, but only 15 of them will be in the U.S. "To keep the buzz," Wolverton says, "our strategy is to be slightly harder to get." He's using the marketing equivalent of a bouncer--increase access too much, and the appeal...
...Lush Is in No Rush The hip British cosmetics retailer is expanding at a crawl, deliberately...