Ulta Beauty Financial Statement

Ulta is a part of the vast beauty industry in the United States which has a high level of competitors. According to Ulta’s 2014 Annual Report (2014), they “operate within the large and growing U.S. beauty products and salon services industry” (p.6). Euromonitor International and IBIS World Inc. report that Ulta’s industry is worth an estimated $121 billion in sales. Ulta is a competitor in all the categories within the beauty industry given their vast array of services and products available at all price points. They also participate in the salon services industry which is worth around $50 billion dollars with their in store salon services.

Founded in Delaware in 1990 as R.G Trends Corporation. Later that year, the company changed its name to Ulta3, Inc. The company had many name changes, in 1992 Ulta changed its name to Ulta3 The Cosmetic Savings Store, Inc. Three years later, in 1995 the company became Ulta3 Cosmetics & Salon, Inc. In 1999, the cosmetics company reached its final decision and renamed the company Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.

and changed its name to Ulta Beauty, Inc. in January 2017. Ulta Beauty is a beauty stores in the United States that carries cosmetics and skincare brands, men’s and women’s fragrances, and haircare products. Not only that, each store is also equipped with a salon. Making the company as your one stop beauty shop. As a consumer and employee, I personally enjoy Ulta Beauty in there features and unique selections.

Ulta Beauty is the largest beauty retailer in the United States and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care, hair care and salon services. Since opening its first store in 1990, Ulta Beauty grown to become the top national retailer providing ALL THINGS BEAUTY. As company offers over 20,000 prestige and mass beauty products, making it one place where you can shop for both high-end labels like Clinique, Lancôme, and Benefit, and budget-friendly mass-produced brands like L’Oreal, NYX and Maybelline. From approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring hair skin and brow services.

Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Overview Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, otherwise referred to as Ulta or Ulta Beauty, was founded in 1990 by Richard George. It broke into a tough industry at a time when prestige, mass and salon products were all sold through distinctive channels of each other. Ulta offers customers a unique and convenient place to get everything they need related to beauty (Ulta Beauty, 2016 p. 28). Ulta has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market since October 25, 2007, and today is one of the largest beauty retailers in the United States. As of January 30, 2016, the end of its fiscal 2015 year, Ulta Beauty operated 847 retail stores across the US, and has already continued its rapid expansion since then (Ulta Beauty, 2016.)

Ulta Beauty, Inc. was incorporated on January 9, 1990, and is now the nation’s largest retailer of cosmetics, fragrances, and skin and hair products in the United States. As the company progress, Ulta Beauty operates 1,010 stores across 48 states, Washington, D.C. and website, in which more than 20,000 products are distributed. These beauty products come from over 500 well established and emerging beauty brand across all price points and categories into cosmetics, fragrance, haircare, skincare, bath and body products and salon styling tools. No wonder why our slogan is “ALL THING BEAUTY, ALL IN ONE PLACE” is fitting for the company. In addition, Ulta Beauty has its own beauty label that is sold in store at a lower price point, as Ulta Beauty

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is one of the top grossing and largest beauty supplier in the US. Ulta Beauty was started in 1990 in Illinois and was originally called Ulta Salon, Cosmetics, and Fragrance, INC. (2000) Ulta Beauty was one of the first cosmetic stores to offer both mass and prestige cosmetics in one place for a quick and easy shopping experience for their customers. Since then Ulta has expanded across 48 states in the US. They focus on their brand portioning with 'All Things Beauty, All in One Place'.

A. History about Ulta Beauty • Ulta Beauty is one of the largest cosmetic, fragrance, hair and skin care products companies in the United States. Since 25 years ago when Ulta has expanded so much and has become one of the most important companies in the United States. Ulta beauty is where you find all things beauty. You can find makeup, fragrances, skin care products, hair products and tools. Ulta offers more than 20,000 products from more than 500 different brands from different categories and prices points.

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c. Bargaining power of customers: i. ULTA success comes from the fact that they are a one-stop for everything Beauty with a wide selection of products. Also, being able to provide customers with information on new beauty trends. If they are unable to provide this information to the customers and update their catalog when new beauty trends appear to the market, ULTA can lose market value. They constantly must know what customer require or are looking for in beauty

Operational liabilities include accounts payable, taxes payable, pension obligations, etc. The debt liabilities include notes payable, other short-term borrowings, the current portion of long-term borrowings, and long-term borrowings. The debt-equity ratio is leveraging to compare a company's total liabilities with its total shareholders' equity (investopedia.com). This is a measurement of how much in the future suppliers, vendors, and creditors have committed to the company in contrast to shareholders` commitment. To a larger extent, similar to the debt ratio, a lower ratio (normally in percentage) means that a company is using less leverage of the debt and has a stronger equity

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1. Introduction Sephora is established by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton as the leading of luxury market. It focus on a unique and sophisticated beauty retailers for customer to experience world of beauty in retail and online self-service. Sephora expand product line thought cosmetic,skincare,and fragrance by increase of classic and emerging brand across the world. Sephora operates approximately 2000 stores in 31 countries base across Asia Pacific region (LVMH 2018).