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Fashion Network
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Prose expands with new customization center in California
New York-based custom hair and skin care brand Prose is growing its manufacturing capabilities with a new customization center in Commerce, California. The 43,000-square-foot facility represents a $9 million investment and mirrors the advanced automated systems of the brand's flagship site in Brooklyn. With this expansion, Prose aims to significantly increase production capacity for its offerings, which also include personalized supplements. "This expansion marks a significant step forward in Prose's evolution, enabling us to meet growing demand from customers across the U.S. and Canada," said Prose CEO and co-founder, Arnaud Plas. "We look forward to leveraging this new state-of-the-art customization center to further drive personalized beauty solutions and set a new standard for the industry.' With 29% year-over-year growth and $165 million in revenue reported for 2024, Prose's momentum has driven the need to expand its capacity. The new location in Southern California was chosen strategically to shorten delivery times and improve operational sustainability. Notably, the new facility is expected to cut downstream shipping emissions by 50%, amounting to a projected savings of over 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. "The Los Angeles area was the ideal choice for our new customization center due to its proximity to our West Coast customers," added Anthony Perdigao, Prose COO. "By strategically positioning our operations in Southern California, we are significantly reducing shipping times for nearly 50% of customers, enhancing our ability to deliver customized beauty solutions quickly and efficiently."
Fashion Network
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Prose expands with new customization center in California
New York-based custom hair and skin care brand Prose is growing its manufacturing capabilities with a new customization center in Commerce, California. The 43,000-square-foot facility represents a $9 million investment and mirrors the advanced automated systems of the brand's flagship site in Brooklyn. With this expansion, Prose aims to significantly increase production capacity for its offerings, which also include personalized supplements. "This expansion marks a significant step forward in Prose's evolution, enabling us to meet growing demand from customers across the U.S. and Canada," said Prose CEO and co-founder, Arnaud Plas. "We look forward to leveraging this new state-of-the-art customization center to further drive personalized beauty solutions and set a new standard for the industry.' With 29% year-over-year growth and $165 million in revenue reported for 2024, Prose's momentum has driven the need to expand its capacity. The new location in Southern California was chosen strategically to shorten delivery times and improve operational sustainability. Notably, the new facility is expected to cut downstream shipping emissions by 50%, amounting to a projected savings of over 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. "The Los Angeles area was the ideal choice for our new customization center due to its proximity to our West Coast customers," added Anthony Perdigao, Prose COO. "By strategically positioning our operations in Southern California, we are significantly reducing shipping times for nearly 50% of customers, enhancing our ability to deliver customized beauty solutions quickly and efficiently."
Fashion Network
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Prose expands with new customization center in California
New York-based custom hair and skin care brand Prose is growing its manufacturing capabilities with a new customization center in Commerce, California. The 43,000-square-foot facility represents a $9 million investment and mirrors the advanced automated systems of the brand's flagship site in Brooklyn. With this expansion, Prose aims to significantly increase production capacity for its offerings, which also include personalized supplements. "This expansion marks a significant step forward in Prose's evolution, enabling us to meet growing demand from customers across the U.S. and Canada," said Prose CEO and co-founder, Arnaud Plas. "We look forward to leveraging this new state-of-the-art customization center to further drive personalized beauty solutions and set a new standard for the industry.' With 29% year-over-year growth and $165 million in revenue reported for 2024, Prose's momentum has driven the need to expand its capacity. The new location in Southern California was chosen strategically to shorten delivery times and improve operational sustainability. Notably, the new facility is expected to cut downstream shipping emissions by 50%, amounting to a projected savings of over 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. "The Los Angeles area was the ideal choice for our new customization center due to its proximity to our West Coast customers," added Anthony Perdigao, Prose COO. "By strategically positioning our operations in Southern California, we are significantly reducing shipping times for nearly 50% of customers, enhancing our ability to deliver customized beauty solutions quickly and efficiently."
Cision Canada
3 days ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
PROSE EXPANDS OPERATIONS WITH NEW WEST COAST CUSTOMIZATION CENTER
LOS ANGELES, June 5, 2025 /CNW/ -- Today, Prose, the NY-based global leader in personalization known for delivering AI-powered custom hair and skin care, announced the expansion of its operations with a new state-of-the-art customization center in Commerce, California. This expansion highlights Prose's dedication to serving its rapidly growing customer base on the West Coast and beyond, while advancing sustainable and innovative manufacturing practices. At the heart of Prose's success is Singular, its proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform unveiled last year, which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Prose's momentum—marked by 29% growth and $165M in revenue in 2024 —has driven the need to expand Singular's capacity. The new customization center will play a pivotal role in supporting this expansion, enabling even greater efficiency and scalability in custom beauty production. The new customization center spans 43,000 square feet and is designed to mirror the advanced automated customization systems of Prose's flagship Brooklyn location. With an investment of $9M, this expansion enables Prose to significantly increase its overall production capacity for bespoke haircare, skincare and supplement products. "This expansion marks a significant step forward in Prose's evolution, enabling us to meet growing demand from customers across the U.S. and Canada," said Prose CEO and Co-Founder Arnaud Plas. "We look forward to leveraging this new state-of-the-art customization center to further drive personalized beauty solutions and set a new standard for the industry." "The Los Angeles area was the ideal choice for our new customization center due to its proximity to our West Coast customers," said Anthony Perdigao, Prose COO. "By strategically positioning our operations in Southern California, we are significantly reducing shipping times for nearly 50% of customers, enhancing our ability to deliver customized beauty solutions quickly and efficiently." Sustainability is a cornerstone of Prose's made-to-order operations. Not only will the expansion reduce shipping time, it will also result in a 50% emissions saving for downstream shipping—or 1.04 ktCO2e of carbon. Other features of the customization center include incorporating renewable energy and energy-efficient design elements in lighting, water consumption, and overall layout. The automated customization system will minimize excess waste and reduce the carbon footprint through an innovative, scalable made-to-order manufacturing process. "Our new customization center represents our dedication to sustainable and responsible manufacturing," said Helen Nwosu, VP of Social Impact. "We are proud to leverage cutting-edge technology and strategic planning to minimize carbon impact and reduce our overall environmental footprint while maintaining the highest quality in our products." About Prose Prose is a DTC beauty-tech brand known for creating custom, made-to-order hair and skin care products to disrupt the CPG industry. Prose shattered the notion that mass retail production is the only solution. Marrying a technology driven approach with an apothecary-style concept, Prose products are made-to-order and provide the highest quality of natural ingredients. The brand is committed to sustainable operations and is Climate Neutral, a Public Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corporation. About Singular Singular is a proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform, transforming personalized beauty at scale through both innovative software and hardware technologies. By analyzing a wide range of factors—from individual preferences to environmental influences—Singular enables brands like Prose to create truly customized haircare and skincare formulations. The platform powers Prose's end-to-end customization process, from ingredient selection to sustainable, made-to-order manufacturing.
Winnipeg Free Press
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Author tidies Molly Gray's backstory in Maid series
For the better part of 20 years, Nita Prose was part of the publishing industry, working her way up to vice-president and editorial director of Simon & Schuster Canada. Then Molly Gray entered her life. Prose introduced Molly, maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, to the world in her 2022 mystery novel The Maid, which became a runaway international bestseller. Molly returned in 2023's The Mystery Guest and then in Prose's holiday-themed novella The Mistletoe Mystery in December 2024. DAHLIA KATZ PHOTO Nita Prose's The Maid's Secret is the author's last Molly Gray novel for now. Now Molly's back to unpack another puzzle in The Maid's Secret, published in early April by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada. Prose launches the novel today at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park, where she'll be joined in conversation by Rachel Lagacé of CTV Morning Live. In The Maid's Secret, Molly takes a box of her late Gran's trinkets to a filming of Hidden Treasures, an Antiques Roadshow-like TV show filming at the Regency Grand. Among the items is a decorative golden egg revealed to be a Fabergé prototype worth millions. When Molly decides to auction it off, the precious item goes missing — and handwritten notes threatening Molly's life begin to appear as she tries to crack the case of who poached her egg. 'When the Russian empire fell after the revolution in 1918, most of the Fabergé eggs that were given as Easter gifts (by the czars) made their way to collections all over the world to museums and private collections, but several of them remain missing to this day — and that has always fascinated me,' says Prose from Toronto. For her latest Maid novel, Prose took on a new challenge — incorporating the voice of Molly's grandmother, Gran, into the narrative and providing a dual storyline that converges near the book's end. The Maid's Secret alternates between Molly's exploits and diary entries from Gran that detail her younger years, the egg's origins and some of Molly's backstory. Finding Gran's voice proved more of a challenge for Prose than writing Molly's narrative. 'I think authors always get one gift from the gods, and Molly's voice was my gift — she just descended from the heavens fully formed. I understood her. I didn't have to work hard to find that voice,' Prose says. 'With Gran's voice, it took a bit for me to trust myself at the beginning. The 'Write what you know' adage was really in my mind, and can a 50-something-year-old really write a voice that's much older? As it turns out, I feel like I did her justice.' Fans of the Maid books might be verklempt that Prose says The Maid's Secret is the last Molly Gray book — at least for the foreseeable future. 'I'll never say never, but I kind of do see this as the end. Maybe in 10 years, I'll have an idea for another Molly adventure, but at the moment, I really wanted to draw the series to a close and to give people that sense of finality,' she says. The Maid's Secret 'I don't feel like these characters, and particularly Molly, are mine anymore. I've been so lucky to have readers embrace Molly wholly and completely — she belongs to them now, and they're taking such good care of her.' The good news: a Maid movie is likely in the cards. 'My hope is that we'll see it onscreen in the coming years,' Prose says. Prose is already at work on a new novel — a mystery less cosy than the Molly Gray books, but one she hopes fans will enjoy just as much as her Maid books. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. 'It's a novel about landscape and wilderness and how the land and a place can both heal and harm. And it's a novel about the unbreakable bond between sisters,' she says of the book, which is set in Ontario cottage country and features an older protagonist. In the meantime, Prose is excited to get in front of fans and talk about all things Molly Gray. 'Writing is such a lonely, self-consuming activity. It challenges you in so many ways. I love that it's a lonely pursuit,' she says. 'But I also love the inverse — when it comes time to share the book, I'm really eager for feedback, for connection. Stories are, after all, meant to be shared, and for me, it's very meaningful to hear readers' responses.' Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
