{"id":165280,"date":"2021-07-02T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T11:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/podcast-maria-hatzistefanis-founder-of-rodial\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:42:06","slug":"podcast-maria-hatzistefanis-founder-of-rodial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/podcast-maria-hatzistefanis-founder-of-rodial\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Welcome to the latest episode of our Podcast series \"The Beauty Edit\" where we bring you\u00a0inspiring stories, retail insights and conversation from the beauty sectors's most influential business leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-8800978\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/991828\/8800978-the-beauty-edit-with-maria-hatzistefanis-founder-of-rodial.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-8800978&player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/theindustry-fashion-podcast-in-conversation\/id1508914290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141774\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-04-23-at-09.41.45-300x74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/13J2FpG7X8AH9Ioi0bVxW8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141777\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Black-300x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Hatzistefanis is one of the beauty industry\u2019s best known and most admired entrepreneurs.<\/strong> She began her career in corporate finance and realising quickly that wasn\u2019t for her, founded her <strong>ground-breaking beauty brand Rodial<\/strong> in 1999, having identified the need for products that focused on results and which tackled specific skin concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Maria started the brand from scratch, visiting trade shows to find formulators and packaging suppliers and even manning her own department, or rather shelf, in the first store to take her brand on in the early days, Fenwick of Bond Street.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually, <strong>Rodial is still an independent brand<\/strong> giving Maria the freedom to operate and expand the business in a manner that feels authentic to her as an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Maria talks to Lauretta Roberts, Editor in Chief, of TheIndustry.fashion about those early days, how the beauty market has evolved in the past 20 years, how she and Rodial fared during the pandemic and what her ambitions are for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">To be the first to know when more episodes of our Podcast series go live, subscribe to our weekly dedicated newsletter for the beauty &amp; grooming sectors <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/subscribe-now\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=insight_button&amp;utm_content=insight_button_0719\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beauty Edit podcast series is produced in proud partnership with<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-160066 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-12-03-at-11.35.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"79\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/beauty-weekly-subscribe-now\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144538\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beauty-Add.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1930\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Hatzistefanis is one of the beauty industry\u2019s best known and most admired entrepreneurs. 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