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CurrentBody.com

D6 Stanley Green Business Park, Commercial Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 6QH, United Kingdom

Overview

CurrentBody is an online retailer specialising in home-use beauty and electrical health devices, offering anti-ageing, acne-treatment, facial cleansing and hair-removal products that use clinically proven technologies. Its catalogue includes partnerships with brands such as Tripollar, NuFACE and Smoothskin and it is a global strategic partner for L’Oreal’s Clarisonic range. The business has built 11 own-language websites, launched on Tmall in China, opened a London shop-in-shop in House of Fraser and signed a joint venture in China with distributor Thakral. CurrentBody ships to over 120 countries and completed its strongest year to date, going live with its 11th international site. Revenues have doubled year-on-year over the past five years. The company plans to grow its product range, expand partnerships and enter further territories while scaling its team and operations. Currentbody is a Manchester, UK-based e-commerce business selling home-use beauty devices. The platform retails devices from brands such as Clarisonic, NuFACE, SmoothSkin, Tria, Wellbox, iluminage and FOREO. It offers a live web chat function to give personal expert advice, support staff, and 'how to' videos and other content. The company was co-founded by Laurence Newman and Andrew Showman. Currentbody raised £5M in growth funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate internal and international expansion.

Total raised
$20M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Dec 2019

Industries

  • E-Commerce
  • Fitness
  • Retail
  • Wellness
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Dec 2019

    $13M

  2. Equity

    Mar 2018

    $7M

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