Viva: The Kiwi Businesses Making Big Moves
JOINING FORCES
The country’s largest doctor-led skin specialist and appearance medicine group, the Skin Institute, is in expansionary mode. It has bought Auckland waxing and brow success story Off & On and is adding more Lovely by Skin Institute stores to city malls.
Chief executive Jenni Ryan says it can now cover “the full raft of consumers’ aesthetics needs” at all levels of the market.
With Australian companies fast setting up shop here, the local scene is becoming more competitive. Some businesses are offering cut-price laser hair removal and appearance medicine treatments, while others are emphasising experience and quality control.