Beauty Subscription Box Porter's
Five Forces Analysis

Available as an instant download and fully editable, the template lets you adapt force assessments, scores, and narrative quickly to your product tiers, pricing, and customer profiles for immediate use in meetings or analyses.

Instant download, defintely editable

Simple fields for quick tailoring

Swap scenarios for different price tiers

Save versions per hypothesis or cohort

The template breaks down all five forces-industry rivalry, threat of substitutes, buyer power, supplier power, and new entrants-showing cause, impact, and tactical responses specific to beauty subscription services.

Rivalry mapped by subscription churn drivers

Substitutes cover retail and sample boxes

Buyers scored by price sensitivity metrics

Suppliers assessed for exclusivity and costs

Content is written for the beauty subscription vertical with examples like curation costs, influencer-driven acquisition, brand partnerships, fulfillment economics, and product return/waste risks to keep analysis market-relevant.

Includes influencer acquisition assumptions

Addresses curation and sampling cost dynamics

Includes packaging and fulfillment pressure points

Considers regulatory and ingredient substitution risks

The template uses clean sections, headings, and short strategic bullets so consultants and founders can paste findings directly into reports, investor decks, or board packs with minimal rework.

Consistent headings for easy copying

Concise bullets for slide-ready use

Color-coded force strength visuals included

Printable one-page executive summary layout

Language and metrics are tuned for investor review, linking force assessments to KPIs like churn, customer acquisition cost (CAC), lifetime value (LTV), and gross margin impacts for subscription models.

Links forces to CAC and LTV

Includes investor-facing summary paragraph

Shows margin sensitivity to supplier power

Supports scenario-based valuation inputs

The Excel/Sheets version contains force-rating tables, weighted scores, and charts so you can recalc scenarios, run sensitivity checks, and export visuals for investor decks or client reports.

Force ratings recalculated by inputs

Radar and bar charts included

Works in Excel and Google Sheets

Simple inputs drive scenario outputs

Pre-written force narratives and examples save hours of research and drafting so you can focus on decision-making, testing hypotheses, and presenting recommendations rather than writing the analysis from scratch.

Ready narratives cut drafting time

Fill numbers, update assumptions, present

Use modular sections for quick edits

Reusable across client engagements and cases

Designed for consulting use with repeatable sections, client-ready language, and modular scenarios so analysts can deploy a standardized Five Forces study across beauty subscription clients quickly.

Client-ready deliverable sections included

Modular scenarios for competitive benchmarking

Quickly adapt for multiple clients

Includes consulting-style recommendations template

Perfect for class projects and case studies, the template demonstrates real-world application of Porter's framework with sector-specific examples, scoring methods, and discussion prompts for learning and grading.

Case-study examples aligned to coursework

Scoring method explained for teaching

Includes discussion prompts and questions

Ideal for MBA and undergrad projects