Denmark’s retailer Dansk Supermarked announces berry-inspired cosmetics
Denmark’s largest food retailer, Dansk Supermarked, is planning to run a cross-marketing campaign combining fresh berries and cosmetics. The supermarket giant, which operates Denmark’s Netto, Føtex, Bilka and Salling chains, announced the plans at the Global Berry...
Benefit staff move into quirky UK head office in Essex
US cosmetics brand Benefit has opened new UK head office in Chelmsford, Essex. In-keeping with brand’s distinct vintage style, Benefit updated a former radio factory dating back to 1912 which had fallen into disrepair. Benefit has spent the last 18 months restoring...
UK-based start-up Cellucomp developed eco-friendly nanofibre
Using carrots and sugar beets, a UK-based manufacturer has developed an eco-friendly alternative to chemical additives that it claims is twice as strong as carbon fibre. Cellucomp, a biotech start-up based in Scotland, aims to take on multinationals such as Dow...
Dow Corning due to launch new silicon formulations at in-cosmetics
US-based silicon manufacturer Dow Corning has revealed that it will be showcasing two new silicon-based cosmetics ingredients at trade event in-cosmetics 2015. The new innovations due to be showcased at the trade show, which is taking place in Barcelona from April...
MuLondon wins Viva! Best Vegan Cosmetic Product award
Natural and organic skincare company MuLondon has picked up the Best Vegan Cosmetic Product prize at vegan charity Viva!’s 20th Anniversary Awards. Winning product MuLondon’s Organic White Chocolate Truffle Moisturiser, is made in London and is 100% vegan, free from...
L’Oreal launches UK skin cancer awareness campaign
In an effort to further its health credentials, L’Oreal brand La Roche-Posay is launching a new social media campaign to raise awareness of skin cancer. Featuring dalmatians, the Skinchecker video campaign, which launched today, urges consumers to examine the skin of...
Dove France launches #OneBeautifulThought campaign
Dove has launched a campaign in France to encourage women to have kinder thoughts about themselves. The #OneBeautifulThought campaign features an advert in which Dove asked a group of regular women to keep a diary of all the thoughts they have about their bodies and...
EU demand for product such as palm oil is fuelling illegal deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia, report reveals
Widespread illegal deforestation across Brazil and Indonesia is being fuelled by demand from EU countries for palm oil, leather, beef and soy used in cosmetics, groceries, clothing and animal feed, a new study reveals. During 2000-2012, an average of one football...
Tesco to host beauty consultations using Google+ Hangouts
In an effort to drive up sales by reaching a younger, digitally-savvy audience, Tesco is offering consumers free online consultations with beauty bloggers. Tesco’s new ‘Beauty Hub’ allows consumers to book a one-to-one 20 minute consultation with a blogger of their...
Marie Claire enters beauty retail sector with Ocado partnership
Marie Claire is the latest magazine to enter the beauty and fashion retail sector. Last year fashion, beauty and opinion magazine Grazia launched an e-commerce fashion store under the Grazia name after it acquired London-Boutiques.com.Marie Claire plans to capitalize...
Redken conditioner packaging designed by VariBlend wins PCD Award For Innovation
Redken, a L’Oreal company, has won a prize for packaging innovation for its Blonde Idol Custom Tone Daily Conditioner, a uniquely designed bottle containing six dispensers. The dispenser, which was produced by US-based manufacturing firm VariBlend, was chosen by a...
UK retail sales growth grinds to a halt in February
Since January sales drew to a close, British retailers have surprised City economists by suffering an unexpected slowdown in sales, according to a recent survey. The Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) Distributive Trades Survey of 138 firms including 62...
Metsä Board showcases new cardboard packaging for cosmetics market
Finland-based cardboard packaging company Metsä Board showcased a new range of lightweight sustainable packaging at the Packaging of Perfume, Cosmetics & Design (PCD) Congress 2015. The key product promoted by Metsä Board at the trade event is the ‘Carta...
Hair product manufacturer Excel introduces new printing technology
UK-based hair styling product manufacturer Excel has introduced a new inkjet printing system to speed up production. Excel will now be using the ‘Hitachi RX-S’ developed by UK printing specialists Allen Coding, which was chosen for its instant drying feature. The...
Trading Standards cracks down on unsafe counterfeit makeup
The UK government’s Trading Standard Institute is cracking down on the sale of counterfeit make-up containing dangerous levels of lead, mercury and arsenic. Brands such as MAC, Bobbi Brown and Benefit, are being imitated and sold online and in UK stores for a fraction...
Mibelle Biochemistry receives Frost & Sullivan award for snow algae powder
US market research company Frost & Sullivan has given Switzerland-based cosmetics ingredients manufacturer Mibelle Biochemistry an award for innovation for its development of snow algae powder. Every year Frost & Sullivan present the European Award for New...
Scientists discover yeast with similar properties to palm oil
Scientists at Bath University have discovered a type of yeast that possesses near-identical properties to palm oil, following a three-year research project that could revolutionise the cosmetics industry. Despite concerns over deforestation, palm oil is widely used in...
Record number of visitors attend Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2015
A record number of visitors attended this year’s Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2015, organizers have revealed. A total of 248,000 visitors were present at the four-day event held at Bologna Fair Centre, representing a 20 percent increase from 2014. The event is...
Interparfums acquires Rochas from P&G
Interparfums SA, the Paris-based subsidiary of Interparfums Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire cosmetics and fashion brand Rochas from Proctor & Gamble. The US$108 million buyout entitles Interparfums to all brand names and registered trademarks...
Head & Shoulders launches limited edition packaging
Head & Shoulders is introducing limited edition bottles featuring illustrated designs to celebrate the launch of new products Head & Shoulders Smooth & Silky and Head & Shoulders Colour Care. The new limited edition bottles will be available in the UK...
Vitaliano Torno elected President of the European Container Glass Federation
The European Container Glass Federation, known as FEVE, has announced that Vitalino Torno will serve as the group's President. Torno has been Managing Director of O-I Europe at Owens-Illinois since January 20. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Sales and...
Amerplast teams up with Braskem to market environmentally-friendly plastic
Finland-based packaging company Amerplast has entered into a supply partnership agreement with biopolymers manufacturer Braskem to market Green Polyethylene, an environmentally-friendly plastic used in a range of packaging. Green Polyethylene is produced using...
RPC acquires Promens Group for €386m
UK packaging manufacturer RPC Group has completed its acquisition of Iceland-based rival Promens Group, in a deal worth 386 million euros. The combined companies expect to turnover in excess of 2 billion euros, operate from more than 90 facilities worldwide and employ...
British packaging manufacturer RPC bids to buy Icelandic rival Promens for 386 million euros
British Packaging manufacturer RPC has made an offer to buy Icelandic rival packaging firm, Promens, for 386 million euros. According to RPC, the combination of the two businesses would create a significantly enhanced European presence in rigid plastic packaging,...
WACKER will debut new silicone elastomer gels at in-cosmetics 2015
Munich-based chemicals group WACKER has revealed that it will be debuting new silicone elastomer gels at in-cosmetics 2015. According to the manufacturer, the products, BELSIL® EG 1 and BELSIL® REG 102, “impart a special texture to skin-care products and decorative...
Christina Zech appointed Managing Director of Faber-Castell Cosmetics
German company Faber-Castell Cosmetics has appointed Christina Zech as Managing Director. Zech will lead the company alongside brand founder Mary von Faber-Castell. Zech brings over 20 years of experience in various technical and commercial roles and has a broad...
Christian Louboutin opens first beauty boutique in Paris
French shoe and handbag designer Christian Louboutin has opened his first beauty boutique in Paris, following the launch of the Louboutin nail lacquer range in 2014. The beauty boutique, which Louboutin describes as “small shop or a big shrine…completely dedicated to...
L’Oreal agrees to change ‘bad at maths’ boast advert
L’Oreal has agreed to change an advert in which British actress Dame Helen Mirren admits to being bad at maths, following a complaint from a numeracy charity. In the recent adverts for the brand’s Age Perfect skincare range, Mirren comments, "Age is just a number. And...
Britain’s Middle East trade holds up despite strong pound
UK exports to the Middle East exceeded £18bn last year despite the strong pound and falling oil prices leading to fears of weakened demand in the region. Yet according to data from HM Revenue & Customs, total UK exports to the region were only slightly lower than...
Oriflame Cosmetics inaugurates production facility in Russia
Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame Cosmetics has opened a new production site in Niginsk, Russia, following an investment of 150 million euros. The new production site was officially inaugurated today and features a factory, warehouse and distribution centre built on a...
Rawlings Expands into Cosmetic & Pharmaceutical Glass
Glass bottle manufacturer Rawlings is launching a new range of products aimed at the cosmetics and pharmaceutical markets. Founded in England in 1850, Rawlings has established a reputation for manufacturing glass packaging for the food and beverage industry. Yet the...
Household and personal care product suppliers face record fines for price-fixing in France
Personal care brands such as Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Henkel and Unilever have been fined 605.6 million euros by French authorities over price-fixing schemes. The French Competition Authority (FCA) issued the fine, the highest it has ever issued, after...
L’Oreal reports profits increase following sale of skin-care business
French cosmetics giant L'Oreal says the sale of a skin care subsidiary underpinned a 66 per cent rise in profits last year, while sales in its key consumer products business fell amid a volatile economic environment. The company behind Lancome cosmetics and The Body...
Oat Cosmetics appoints Thai distributor
UK-based ingredients supplier Oat Cosmetics has appointed Thai distributor Forecus to drive business in the ASEAN territory. Forecus will supply Oat Cosmetics’ full portfolio of Ecocert and COSMOS approved natural and organic oat ingredient. These include Oat COM, a...
UK manufacturing sector on the rise
The UK manufacturing sector grew in January due to a greater number of export orders, a monthly survey of private sector companies has revealed. Orders from both home and abroad came in faster last month, with new export orders at a five-month high, the Markit/CIPS...
L’Oreal predicts profit increase due to weak euro and low oil price
L’Oreal has predicted a substantial increase in profits during 2015 due to greater consumption in Western Europe triggered by the weak euro and slump in oil prices. Chief Executive Jean-Paul Agon stated in a presentation on Thursday that he expects growth of the...
French Parliament launches bill on the use of vegetal and animal genetic resources
The French Parliament is considering new legislation on biodiversity, which will affect companies in the cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and agri-food sectors that use genetic resources from vegetal, animals and micro-organisms. Despite the existence of international...
New study reveals consumer insight on product launches
Nearly three quarters (74 percent) of consumers are excited by product launches, but only 28 percent end up remembering them, according to research by UK-based marketing agency Five by Five. The report, which surveyed 2,000 UK adults, found that half of consumers...
Packaging manufacturer Albéa opens new plant in Italy
Packaging manufacturer Albéa has opened a new US$7 million production site near Milan. The 18,400 square metre site located in the village of Bottanuco will employ 250 people and has the capacity to produce 160 million units per year. It has been fitted with...
Essentra completes $455m acquisition of Clondalkin
UK-based packaging manufacturer Essentra has strengthened its position in as a global leader in beauty packaging through its acquisition of US packaging specialists Clondalkin SPD in a deal worth US$455. The acquisition adds 2,400 people in 24 facilities, including...
Packaging companies Pujolasos & Decopak team up to launch patented ‘metallised wooden’ cap for cosmetics
Two Barcelona-based companies, Pujolasos wood & pack, a producer of wood packaging for luxury goods, and Decopak Europ, a company specialising in product surface decoration, have teamed up to launch a newly-patented “metallised wooden cap.” Showcased at the latest...
Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame hurt by currencies
Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame Cosmetics has revealed that its earnings have been hit by the deprecation of some of its main trading currencies, such as the Russian rouble. The company, which sells cosmetics in more than 60 countries, said sales converted into euros...
P&G shuffles management in bid to strengthen beauty business
Proctor & Gamble has reorganised key members of its managerial team in an effort to strengthen its beauty business. David Taylor, Group President of Global Health and Grooming, will now also oversee beauty. The promotion puts him in charge of two of the...
Products due to launch at Packaging Innovations revealed
Organisers of UK trade show Packaging Innovations have announced details of new products to be launched at next month's event. The two-day show, which takes place at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on 25 and 26 February, will showcase the latest trends...
Vetroplas launches in-mould labelling technology for tubes into the UK
Vetroplas, a packaging supplier for the cosmetics and personal care industry across the UK and Ireland, is launching a range of tubes using new in-mould labelling technology. Vetroplas claims to be the first UK-based company to offer the technology, developed by...
Lancôme appoints Lisa Eldridge as Creative Director of Makeup
Lancôme has appointed international makeup artist Lisa Eldridge as Creative Director of Make-up. Previously, Eldridge was Creative Director of Boots No7 from 2003 to 2013. She has also collaborated with brands such as Prada, Chloé and Donna Karan on runway shows and...
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