2017 TotalRetail Magazine’s Retailer of the Year: Barry Beck, COO, Bluemercury
Every year, Philadelphia-based TotalRetail Magazine bestows the honor of Retailer of the Year, a prestigious recognition in the retail, business and entrepreneurial world. Per https://www.mytotalretail.com/promo/media-kit, the Retailer of the Year is “a person (and company) that has merited special recognition for his or her work, both in that calendar year and over the course of their career” and who “are not only successful financially, but are also having a positive impact in the lives of their customers and employees, as well as the communities in which they operate.”
On October 5, 2017, TotalRetail announced its selection for Retailer of the Year from a pool of many highly qualified and accomplished candidates. The winner for 2017 was announced as Barry Beck, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Bluemercury, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based national cosmetics retailer and brand manufacturer.
The magazine issued a press release at https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/barry-beck-founder-and-chief-operating-officer-bluemercury-named-total-retails-2017-retailer-of-the-year-300532015.html and published a longform interview-style article with Barry Beck at https://www.mytotalretail.com/longform/retailer-of-the-year-barry-beck-bluemercury/.
Beck is the co-founder along with his wife Marla of the rapidly growing cosmetics chain Bluemercury, which in 20 years has spread to 200 stores across the country and was purchased for $210 million by Macy’s in 2015 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2015/02/03/macys-to-buy-bluemercury-for-210m).
The bestowal has earned Beck greater recognition, including guest talks at MAVA (https://mava.org/calendar/startupgrind-april) and StartUpGrind (https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-washington-dc-presents-barry-beck-coo-cofounder-of-bluemercury).
