Miami Mayor Francis Suarez spent months struggling to get the campaign donations, attention and support he needed to keep his long-shot quest for the Republican presidential nomination alive.
That ended Tuesday, when Suarez announced he would be suspending his campaign, making him the first Republican to drop out of a nomination contest that is both crowded and heavily favoring former President Donald Trump.
“While I have decided to suspend my campaign for President, my commitment to making this a better nation for every American remains," Suarez said in a statement.
“I look forward to keeping in touch with the other Republican presidential candidates and doing what I can to make sure our party puts forward a strong nominee who can inspire and unify the country, renew Americans’ trust in our institutions and in each other, and win.”
Suarez did not offer his endorsement to any of the remaining candidates.
Suarez failed to make the debate stage in Milwaukee, despite having reached, he claimed, the threshold for 40,000 individual donors. In his quest to get more donations, Suarez offered people a chance to get front-row seats to see legendary Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi in his first game playing for Inter Miami.
But with dismal polling numbers – the last three major surveys had Suarez with zero support of GOP primary voters – Suarez did not qualify for the debate stage. While campaigning in New Hampshire weeks ago, Suarez said that candidates who did not meet the thresholds for the Milwaukee debate should drop out.
As the only Hispanic in the GOP presidential race, Suarez – the 45-year-old son of Miami's first Cuban-born mayor – at first appeared to be someone who could build on the party's inroads among Latino voters. Exit polls show that Hispanics – especially in Republican Florida – are moving more toward the GOP, although Democrats still hold a commanding lead among the voter group nationally and in battleground states like Arizona and Colorado.
Suarez was also an early proponent of vaccinations for COVID-19. He has clashed with his state's GOP governor, Ron DeSantis, criticizing his foe for the GOP presidential nomination for the expansion of the "don’t say gay" law in schools and the handling of the slavery curriculum in classrooms.
Nor has Suarez been a reliable enemy of President Joe Biden. At an event at the White House in early 2021, Suarez said he spoke with the president about the pandemic and climate change, adding that he had more communication with the Democratic president than with Trump, when he was president.
"I've spoken to the president and vice president more times in the short period that they have been in office than I had spoken to the prior administration entirely," Suarez said at the time. "To me, that's an intentional desire on their part to really plug in with the mayors."
In the months he has been campaigning, however, Suarez – who did not support Trump in 2016 or 2020 – has shied away from criticizing the GOP's front-runner. In June, Suarez hinted he would pardon Trump, saying the tool is useful for presidents to “heal the country.”
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林清轩、谷雨、植物医生、“中国香水第一股”颖通控股……据上海证券报记者不完全统计,今年已有超30家美妆产业链公司备战IPO。
这回,港股IPO的大门口又多了一位“重磅嘉宾”——年营收超百亿的美妆巨头珀莱雅。若进展顺利,珀莱雅有望成为美妆行业“A+H”第一股。
然而,一面正在奋力冲刺港股的珀莱雅,另一面却是尴尬而失速的业绩。
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业绩增长放缓、家族二代接班、高管变动频繁、研发强度持续走低等多重问题扑面而来。从2023年的高点算起,截至2025年9月末,珀莱雅的市值已经跌去200亿,跌幅超四成。与此同时,2025年上半年公司净利润增速也从去年同期的40.48%大幅回落至13.8%,降至五年来最低水平。
一半是海水、一半是火焰的美妆龙头,到底怎么了?
珀莱雅是最会做营销的国货美妆之一。
就连最火爆的短剧,都没逃出它的掌心。
前脚还是风光无限的富家千金,后脚却因母亲的离世,遭受后妈和继妹的联合打压。紧接着落难千金邂逅霸道总裁,上演土味却经典的爱情桥段,2024年珀莱雅推出12集微短剧《大小姐的万丈光芒》。该剧在该年曾一度位列平台短剧热度排行榜第二,累计播放量高达1.3亿次。
E | 京东618大促期间,珀莱雅通过该剧同步挂载了产品带货链接,充分利用了观众的追剧热情来推动销售。
与此同时,2024年618大促期间,其主品牌创下天猫美妆同比增长70%、抖音增长110%、京东增长80%的全平台强势爆发,首次打破外资品牌对天猫护肤类目榜首的垄断,以10.14亿元销售额登顶。
这一优势延续至2025年,上半年线上营收达51.09亿元,其中抖音自播矩阵贡献显著——珀莱雅实现了“日不落”直播间,直播时长超14小时,大促节点更是达到了18小时,主播的话术和节奏都有详细安排。
然而,规模高速增长的背后,究竟是产品本身的力量,还是“花钱买流量”的结果呢?
过去几年,珀莱雅凭借抖音、小红书等平台的种草营销,营收从2018年的23.61亿元一路狂飙至2024年的107.78亿元,但销售费用也同步攀升至51.61亿元,占比达到了惊人的47.88%。
G | 据Wind数据,珀莱雅自上市以来,现金分红累计达到21.25亿元,分红率超过30%。若以创始人侯军呈和方玉友的持股比例来看,二人分红进账超10亿元。
珀莱雅当前最大的压力来自大单品的触顶。
2025年上半年,“珀莱雅”主品牌实现收入39.79亿元,同比微降0.08%。这一数据与2024年同期38%的高速增长形成鲜明对比,标志着支撑其多年增长的核心动力正在熄火。
竞争对手们的数字更为刺眼。毛戈平、丸美生物等今年上半年的营收同比增速均在30%以上,巨子生物(21.66%)和上美股份(17.29%)的增速也都远高于珀莱雅。
回顾珀莱雅的崛起之路,大单品居功至伟。
早期,其依托行业性下沉渠道(如CS美妆集合店、区域商超等),快速渗透三四线及以下市场,填补了当时大众护肤市场的渠道空白;之后,珀莱雅又踩着互联网最强黄金十年的红利潮,一跃来到了全国万亿爱美人士的视野之中。
关键的一击本垒打出现在2020年。
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2020年初,珀莱雅率先抓住了“早C晚A”的成分护肤大浪潮,推出了首款大单品——红宝石精华,核心卖点在于“1%超分子维A醇+20%六胜肽”两大有效成分;随后又推出第二款大单品双抗精华,添加2%的麦角硫因,后者则是雅诗兰黛小棕瓶的有效成分。
在国货护肤尚未百花争艳的时期,珀莱雅占据先发优势,紧密绑定头部主播、美妆达人们,几乎只要你在电商、社交平台上闲逛关于美妆的信息,都难逃珀莱雅精准式投放的“围猎”。
“大促不知道买什么护肤品就买珀莱雅”,几乎成了一部分忠实粉丝的肌肉记忆。
在“早C晚A”风潮之后,珀莱雅的产品线逐渐以稳定迭代为主,却再无新的爆款现身,“吃老本”的隐患愈发明显。
与此同时,国货美妆在近几年的发展却是风起云涌,薇诺娜、可复美等品牌发展迅猛。而这些品牌主打温和、修复,与当下盛行的医美护肤相辅相成。
一方面,“早C晚A”护肤法被科学认证为有效抗衰模式,但该护肤法存在较大刺激性,使用不得当很容易“翻车;另一方面,如今温和抗衰的成分不断涌现,消费者有了更多样化的选择,“早C晚A”的搭配模式自然也就不那么稀缺了。
珀莱雅也意识到了这一点。
今年6月初,公司推出了旗下首款械字号产品——医用重组胶原蛋白敷贴,主打医美术后修护功能。北京商报记者也从接近珀莱雅内部的相关人士处获悉,珀莱雅今后的重点将会是在医美和男士护肤领域。
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只不过,与“早C晚A”时期的先发红利不同,现在珀莱雅在医美和男士护肤领域均未能赢在起跑线上。在重组胶原蛋白满天飞、麦角硫因崭露头角的年代,倘若没有专利性的拳头产品,想要弯道超车已经占据消费者心智的竞争对手们,难度着实不小。
如果说产品、营销这些问题是珀莱雅水面上的冰山一角,那么水面之下的巨大暗流已经在涌动。
2024年,联合创始人方玉友(侯军呈妻弟)卸任总经理,由实控人侯军呈之子侯亚孟接任,标志着“创二代”正式掌权。
K | 但2025年,珀莱雅却“画风突变”,短短半年内连续签下刘亦菲、易烊千玺、宋佳三位顶流明星,代言人数超过过去五年总和,几乎每隔2-3个月就有新代言官宣。
再来是并购投资。
为了突破增长天花板,珀莱雅计划通过巴黎分公司并购婴童、香水等细分品牌。
L | 而就在9月初,在海外市场爆火的国货彩妆品牌花知晓宣布,B轮融资由国货美妆龙头企业珀莱雅独家投资。
但无论是国外高端品牌本土化还是新兴小众品牌崛起,尽管省却了从0到1的过程,但想要将这些品牌从1做成100,对于目前的中国市场而言,运营成本仍然太高,甚至可能会挤压自有品牌资源。
摆在珀莱雅面前的已经有了多个前车之鉴。
M | 逸仙电商收购科兰黎(Galénic)后连续两年收入下滑,水羊股份并购伊菲丹(EviDensS)后净利润反而暴跌60%。
不管是请大牌代言人还是并购投资,都需要珀莱雅投入大量的财力、人力,对现金流形成极大的考验,这或许也是珀莱雅急于赴港上市的重要因素之一。但即便如此,大额支出的背后,最终的回报付出比依然未可知。
国货美妆的竞争,已进入“硬科技+全球化”的下半场。
当下的珀莱雅正站在战略转型的十字路口:“珀二代”接班后的组织重构、研发体系的补课攻坚、多品牌与国际化布局的平衡,每一项都关乎能否跳出“百亿魔咒”。
在今年年度业绩会上,候亚孟首次提出“双十战略”,即未来十年进入全球化妆品行业前十。如何能从原来的“虚胖”做成真正“大而强”的王者,是市场交给二代的课题,而能否解决这一课题,也决定着珀莱雅未来的命运。
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