As 2024 kicks off, TikTok Shop is expected to be a central theme within beauty brand retail strategies.
TikTok aims to grow the size of its U.S. e-commerce business tenfold, to as much as $17.5 billion this year, according to Bloomberg. And beauty brands like Benefit Cosmetics are equally ambitious about their growth and preeminence on TikTok Shop.
Since joining the TikTok Shop beta program in March 2023, Benefit has sold well over 87,000 product units, according to its own TikTok Shop. But the brand has even larger ambitions for TikTok Shop moving forward. A unique selling point of TikTok is its product and brand discovery capacity, which has led the app to become a notable search competitor to Google among younger people. Toto HaBa, svp of global omni-marketing for Benefit Cosmetics, said Benefit wants to lean into that trend to uncover new audiences. He said he could see the brand’s TikTok Shop sales “easily tripling or quadrupling” in size in 2024. The LVMH-owned brand does not disclose overall sales.
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