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ANUA Enters Ulta Beauty, Largest Beauty Chain in the US - "Advancing as a Global Beauty Brand"

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ANUA Enters Ulta Beauty, Largest Beauty Chain in the US - "Advancing as a Global Beauty Brand"
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ANUA Enters Ulta Beauty, Largest Beauty Chain in the US - "Advancing as a Global Beauty Brand"

2024-12-30 06:30 Last Updated At:06:45

  • First K-beauty brand to enter all ULTA Beauty stores through a direct partnership starting from February next year
  • Flagship Heartleaf and Rice lines to debut, accompanied by special gift-with-purchase promotions across online and offline channels
  • SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global brand incubator The Founders (Co-CEOs Lee Sunhyung, Lee Changjoo)'s global beauty brand ANUA is accelerating its global market expansion through a strategic partnership with largest beauty retailer in the US, Ulta Beauty, across both digital and brick-and-mortar channels.

    Ulta Beauty, drawing tens of millions of customers annually, stands as US premier beauty retailer with its extensive distribution network and dominant market share, representing a strategic retail channel. Beginning with its online launch this month, ANUA aims to complete its rollout across all 1,500 physical locations by February next year.

    This large-scale retail expansion marks the first instance of a K-beauty brand securing direct distribution rights with Ulta Beauty for its complete store network, demonstrating successful penetration into the highly competitive U.S. brick-and-mortar market. This milestone reflects Ulta Beauty's strong confidence in ANUA's product excellence and market potential.

    Key products for the retail launch include the bestselling Heartleaf and Rice skincare lines, which have gained popularity through word-of-mouth among local consumers.

    To commemorate the launch, the brand is offering promotional gifts: a complimentary mini cleansing oil for online purchases and a double cleansing duo for in-store customers.

    An ANUA representative stated, "This Ulta Beauty partnership will significantly strengthen our global presence by expanding our reach to local consumers," adding, "Through ANUA's innovative product development and enhanced customer experience, we will accelerate our growth trajectory toward becoming the leading global K-beauty brand by establishing a comprehensive omnichannel distribution network."

    Since its launch in 2019, ANUA has rapidly expanded its global footprint, consistently achieving over 200% annual growth, and formally entered the U.S. market in 2022. Through strategic localization initiatives and dynamic marketing campaigns, the brand has established itself as a prominent K-beauty leader by consistently introducing hero products, including the Heartleaf Toner, Cleansing Oil, and TXA Serum.

    Brand Introduction
    Global Beauty Brand ANUA
    Founded in 2019, ANUA is a skincare brand that meticulously selects the most efficacious natural ingredients and dermatological components, offering diverse product lines targeting specific skin concerns. Signature bestsellers include: Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner, Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil, and Heartleaf 77 Clear Pad. The brand has recently solidified its position as a leading K-beauty skincare brand, achieving remarkable growth across global e-commerce platforms, including Amazon and eBay Japan.

    [About The Founders]
    Global Brand Incubator The Founders
    The Founders is a company with the vision of becoming the 'Global No.1 Brand Incubator'. In just eight years since its establishment, it has developed ANUA into the first Korean skincare brand to achieve market leadership across major global platforms, including Korea, the United States, and Japan. Additionally, the company is setting new benchmarks for K-beauty in the global market through its portfolio brands, including 'FROM LABS', a dermatological haircare brand, and 'Project21', a premium pet care brand. Notably, the company has expanded into over 50 countries worldwide and is revolutionizing the global beauty industry paradigm, maintaining an average annual growth rate exceeding 250% since inception.


SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global brand incubator The Founders (Co-CEOs Lee Sunhyung, Lee Changjoo)'s global beauty brand ANUA is accelerating its global market expansion through a strategic partnership with largest beauty retailer in the US, Ulta Beauty, across both digital and brick-and-mortar channels.

Ulta Beauty, drawing tens of millions of customers annually, stands as US premier beauty retailer with its extensive distribution network and dominant market share, representing a strategic retail channel. Beginning with its online launch this month, ANUA aims to complete its rollout across all 1,500 physical locations by February next year.

This large-scale retail expansion marks the first instance of a K-beauty brand securing direct distribution rights with Ulta Beauty for its complete store network, demonstrating successful penetration into the highly competitive U.S. brick-and-mortar market. This milestone reflects Ulta Beauty's strong confidence in ANUA's product excellence and market potential.

Key products for the retail launch include the bestselling Heartleaf and Rice skincare lines, which have gained popularity through word-of-mouth among local consumers.

To commemorate the launch, the brand is offering promotional gifts: a complimentary mini cleansing oil for online purchases and a double cleansing duo for in-store customers.

An ANUA representative stated, "This Ulta Beauty partnership will significantly strengthen our global presence by expanding our reach to local consumers," adding, "Through ANUA's innovative product development and enhanced customer experience, we will accelerate our growth trajectory toward becoming the leading global K-beauty brand by establishing a comprehensive omnichannel distribution network."

Since its launch in 2019, ANUA has rapidly expanded its global footprint, consistently achieving over 200% annual growth, and formally entered the U.S. market in 2022. Through strategic localization initiatives and dynamic marketing campaigns, the brand has established itself as a prominent K-beauty leader by consistently introducing hero products, including the Heartleaf Toner, Cleansing Oil, and TXA Serum.

Brand Introduction
Global Beauty Brand ANUA
Founded in 2019, ANUA is a skincare brand that meticulously selects the most efficacious natural ingredients and dermatological components, offering diverse product lines targeting specific skin concerns. Signature bestsellers include: Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner, Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil, and Heartleaf 77 Clear Pad. The brand has recently solidified its position as a leading K-beauty skincare brand, achieving remarkable growth across global e-commerce platforms, including Amazon and eBay Japan.

[About The Founders]
Global Brand Incubator The Founders
The Founders is a company with the vision of becoming the 'Global No.1 Brand Incubator'. In just eight years since its establishment, it has developed ANUA into the first Korean skincare brand to achieve market leadership across major global platforms, including Korea, the United States, and Japan. Additionally, the company is setting new benchmarks for K-beauty in the global market through its portfolio brands, including 'FROM LABS', a dermatological haircare brand, and 'Project21', a premium pet care brand. Notably, the company has expanded into over 50 countries worldwide and is revolutionizing the global beauty industry paradigm, maintaining an average annual growth rate exceeding 250% since inception.

** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **

ANUA Enters Ulta Beauty, Largest Beauty Chain in the US - "Advancing as a Global Beauty Brand"

ANUA Enters Ulta Beauty, Largest Beauty Chain in the US - "Advancing as a Global Beauty Brand"

SINGAPORE, Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coda, a global leader in digital content monetization, today announced that it is integrating Unity's In‑App Purchasing (IAP) SDK with Coda's global web store platforms. This collaboration offers developers a single place to manage and optimize their entire digital catalog across mobile, web, and PC - directly through Unity's existing IAP workflow. 

With just a few lines of code, developers can launch secure, branded web stores powered by Coda - offering players more ways to purchase securely while improving their margins.

The integration is powered by Coda's Merchant of Record (MoR) solution, which is already trusted by leading publishers and fast-growing studios worldwide. As the legal seller in each market, Coda manages payments, fraud prevention, tax remittance, invoicing, and compliance across more than 70 markets and over 400 payment methods. This gives developers more time to focus on the game and the player experience.

"As the games industry moves beyond closed ecosystems, developers of every size want more flexibility and control over how they grow," said Shane Happach, CEO of Coda. "Our integration with Unity's IAP SDK gives creators more choice in how they launch and operate their own stores, wherever their players are, minus the complexity of managing global payments or compliance. This reflects Coda's commitment to democratizing game development and helping every studio, large or small, succeed on their own terms."

As web-based purchasing becomes a more practical part of developers' business mix, interest in direct-to-consumer web stores continues to grow. Today, these channels already account for roughly 26% of mobile gaming revenue in East and Southeast Asia, according to research from Niko Partners and Coda.

First-party web stores give developers greater control over pricing, promotions, and player communication, but introduce operational complexity across payments, compliance, fraud, and support. Coda removes these barriers with a scalable payments and risk platform, integrated directly into Unity's workflow.

Coda's integration with Unity's IAP sets a new D2C standard by bringing out-of-app monetization into developers' existing workflows, removing operational complexity, and making it easier to run web stores at a global scale.

Learn more at coda.co.

About Coda

Coda is a global leader in digital content monetization and distribution. We're trusted by 300+ publishers—including Activision, Electronic Arts, and Riot Games—to grow their audiences and revenue worldwide. Our out-of-app solutions include Custom Commerce, a fully customizable web store; Codapay, which enables seamless direct payments through a single API integration on publishers' websites; Codashop, the go-to marketplace for millions of gamers to purchase in-game content; and Distribution, which extends content reach through a network of trusted commerce partners. Founded in 2011, Coda is headquartered in Singapore with a team of 550+ Codans around the globe. Coda recently acquired Recharge, Europe's leading prepaid payments platform.  Coda is backed by Apis Partners, Insight Partners, and Smash Capital, and has been named an APAC High Growth Company (2023) by Financial Times, one of Granite Asia's NextGenTech 30 (2024), a payments leader on Fortune's Fintech Innovation Asia list (2024), and listed among The Straits Times Fastest Growing Fintechs (2024). For more on Coda, visit coda.co.

Press Contacts
Coda:
Liz Adam — VP, Corporate Affairs
elizah.adam@coda.co

** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **

Coda and Unity to enable out-of-app monetization for game developers globally

Coda and Unity to enable out-of-app monetization for game developers globally

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