Shiseido teams up with Luxasia to enter Philippines
Shiseido has formed a joint venture with Singapore-based cosmetics agent Luxasia in order to establish a presence in the Philippines, according to a report published by The Japan Times. Shiseido Philippines Corp, as the new entity will be known, will be set up in...
JD and Alibaba report record Single’s Day sales
JD and Alibaba both reported another storming Single’s Day, the now-infamous Chinese shopping festival, which took place this weekend. At JD.com transaction volume reached a record RMB159.8 billion, with shoppers flocking to the site for everything from L’Oréal and...
Mecca Founder Jo Horgan scoops EY entrepreneur of the year award
Mecca Founder Jo Horgan has been won the EY Entrepreneur of the year award having been acknowledged for her entrepreneurial spirit in a Sydney-based ceremony. Horgan runs Mecca Cosmetics and Mecca Maxima and was recognised for growing the group’s business in the face...
Lancôme names Yip Pin Xiu as face; Paralympian makes history as first wheelchair user to front campaign in Singapore
Lancôme has named Paralympian swimmer Yip Pin Xiu as the face of its latest campaign in Singapore, according to a report published by The Straits Times. The athlete is said to be the first wheelchair user to front a major advertising campaign for the brand in the...
Kakao Ventures invests KRW1 billion in Indian K-beauty platform Limese
Kakao Ventures has piled KRW1 billion into Limese, an e-commerce site dedicated to selling K-beauty in India, according to a report published by The Investor. The venture capital arm of the popular messaging app’s contribution closed the platform’s seed round. “Limese...
Shiseido Americas President and CEO named Chief Growth Officer as company launches new technology hub
Shiseido has created a Chief Growth Officer role as part of its future strategy to realize sustainable growth. The Japanese cosmetics manufacturer has named Shiseido Americas President and CEO, Marc Rey, to the role, effective January 1, 2019. In addition to his...
‘We’re committed to growth in China’: Coty partners with Alibaba
Coty has partnered with Alibaba with a view to growing its presence on the Chinese market, according to a report published by Bloomberg. The US beauty behemoth’s brands will be stocked in vending machines in malls across major Chinese cities and will collaborate with...
Ayurveda to the rescue: Colgate takes it Vedshakti line to new markets as it performs wonders for market share in India
Colgate-Palmolive’s Ayurveda offer, developed in response to the popularity of the segment within India, is crossing over to its wider global portfolio, according to a report published by the Economic Times. “We have stepped into now changing the shape of our...
The Estee Lauder Companies sees shares soar as it reports sales increase of 8 percent for Q1 2019
The Estee Lauder Companies saw shares soar 12 percent on the back of a strong set of results for the first quarter of fiscal 2019. The US prestige beauty manufacturer reported a sales rise of 8 percent to US$3.52 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2018....
The International Fragrance Association launches Asia Pacific office
The International Fragrance Association has launched an office for the Asia-Pacific region. The launch of the Singapore-based operation was celebrated with an evening of discussions and seminars to highlight the positive role that fragrance plays in people’s lives....
Walking in an Estee Wonderland: Lauder customers can create their own avatar at Hong Kong pop-up
Estee Lauder is hosting a pop-up with a difference for the holiday season. The prestige beauty brand will wow shoppers in Hong Kong with pop-up counters featuring Quantum Human technology over the festive period, according to a report published by Marketing...
L’Oréal, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson et al sign global commitment to end plastic pollution
L’Oréal, Johnson & Johnson and Unilever are among some 290 organisations to sign a new global commitment to eliminate plastic waste and pollution at source. The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment was officially unveiled by Ellen MacArthur at the Our Ocean...
P&G invests further S$41.5 million in Singapore-based digital innovation center
Procter & Gamble has announced that it will invest an additional S$41.5 million in its Singapore-based digital innovation center, according to a report published by the Straits Times. The latest sum brings the total investment to date to US$130 million, and is...
AS Watson and Yonghui team up to create largest grocery retailer in Guangdong
AS Watson, Yonghui Superstores and Tencent Holdings have formed a joint venture which they claim will ‘redefine grocery retail’ in the Chinese province of Guangdong. The JV combines AS Watson’s PARKnSHOP supermarket chain with Yonghui’s portfolio for a combined total...
LG Household & Healthcare reports record high Q3 sales boosted by luxury brands
South Korea-based LG Household & Healthcare has reported a record Q3 growth, reaching 1.7 trillion won in sales, up 10.6 percent year on year, and 277.5 billion won in operating profit. The company’s luxury cosmetics brands such as Whoo and su:m helped boost its...
Johnson & Johnson announce plans to buyout Ci:z Holdings Co
Johnson & Johnson has announced plans to buy out Japanese skincare company Ci:z Holdings Co, according to a report by Reuters. The personal care giant has stated it will buy out all shares of the firm that it doesn’t already own for 230 billion yen ($2.05 billion)...
Procter & Gamble India to invest in Indian start-ups
Procter & Gamble India has announced it is to invest in Indian start-ups with a new fund called Innovation Sourcing Fund, according to a report by The News Minute. The multi-million fund is a way for P&G India to form a collaborative growth strategy with...
AmorePacific launches into Australia and New Zealand as part of global expansion plans
Korean cosmetics company AmorePacific has developed further into Australia and New Zealand as part of global expansion plans, according to a report by The Investor. The company’s namesake luxury brand is now stocked in 44 MECCA Cosmetica stores across both countries...
Shiseido creates trend-led video to target Halloween consumer
Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido has unveiled an advertising campaign targeted at Halloween consumers, named The Party Bus, according to a report by Sora News. The three and a half-minute commercial has a tagline stating “As the party bus rolls through the night,...
Louis Vuitton emerges victorious in The Face Shop trademark infringement case
Louis Vuitton has emerged victorious in a trademark infringement case against Korean cosmetics company The Face Shop, according to a report by The Korea Times. Louis Vuitton accused The Face Shop of using its designs following a partnership with US tote brand My Other...
White Rabbit scores success with crossover lip balm product
White Rabbit, a Chinese milk candy brand, has achieved outstanding success with its crossover product Lip Balm, produced by Maxam, according to a report by South China Morning Post. Merging into the beauty industry from its food roots, the White Rabbit Lip Balm is a...
CK Hutchison teams up with Meitu to weave beauty sales into social media
CK Hutchison Holdings has announced a strategic alliance with Meitu. CK Hutchison’s retail division, AS Watson will work with the Chinese social sharing platform to combine beauty with social media resulting in a ‘refreshing and interactive’ online and offline...
What does stress smell like? Onions, says Shiseido
Shiseido has revealed that stress has a distinctive scent, according to a report published by Kyodo News, and that scent is green onion. The Japanese cosmetics manufacturer is planning to commercialize its discovery by producing products capable of neutralizing or...
Bye bye snail slime – now K-beauty is going vegan: Cosmax gains EVE certification
Cosmax has announced that it is the first Asian cosmetics manufacturer to gain Expertise Vegan Europe (EVE) certification – to testify that its products are animal-friendly, according to a report published by Pulse News. The body requires both that products not be...
Chanel Korea launches dedicated online cosmetics website
Chanel Korea has launched a dedicated online cosmetics website in the country, according to a report by The Investor. The luxury cosmetics maker has launched the site in order to allow consumers special services such as receiving their items without a delivery charge...
Skinfood files for court receivership due to ongoing financial woes
South Korean cosmetics company Skinfood has filed for court receivership due to ongoing financial problems, according to a report by the Korean Herald. Skinfood has amassed mounting losses, which the company has attributed to a sales slow down as well as accumulated...
We’ll still have K-beauty: South Korea agrees post-Brexit trade deal with UK
South Korea and the United Kingdom have agreed to put together a bilateral free trade treaty to continue their close economic links post-Brexit, according to a report published by Yonhap News. The two countries have been in working-level talks with the UK’s...
Global brands treat us like ‘gullible sheep’: Chinese blogger sues Lauder over Le Mer claims
Chinese blogger Hao Yu’s latest post has gone viral after he shared it on Weibo. In the piece, he reveals that he is suing the owner of Crème de la Mer, The Estee Lauder Companies, for misleading Chinese shoppers, according to a report published by the South China...
Shares in luxury beauty firms fall as China cracks down on imports
China’s border guards have managed to wipe significant value from multinational behemoths Kering, LVMH and Shiseido after videos of luxury goods being seized at the border and a tax receipt levying CNY 17,100 in import duties on make-up went viral, according to a...
Shiseido looks to double sales of own brand range in Asian market
Japanese beauty company Shiseido is looking to the Asian market to double sales of its own brand premium make-up range by 2020, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review. Shiseido is aiming to boost sales to $1.75 billion, 200 billion yen, up from 130 billion yen...
Luxasia boosts expansion plans with Pacific SMM majority-share acquisition
Luxasia has announced the majority-share acquisition of fragrance and beauty retailer Pacific SMM, a move which will better place the company to expand into Australia and New Zealand. A leading omnichannel partner for beauty and luxury brand distribution in retail and...
J-beauty to benefit as Japan’s SBI Remit enables bitcoin payments to Africa
J-beauty brands are to benefit as major Japanese money transfer firm SBI Remit announced that it would allow its customers to send money to Africa using the Bitcoin blockchain, according to a report published by Live Bitcoin News. The new facility will be simpler and...
L’Oréal teams up with Tmall to create male cosmetics line for Chinese shoppers
L’Oréal China has announced that it will team up with Tmall’s Innovation Center to create a male beauty line for the Chinese market. The Alibaba Group-owned unit will leverage insights from the online shopping platform’s 600 million users to help the French beauty...
Unilever takes unstereotype mission to Asia
Unilever is taking its unstereotype campaign to Asia, according to a report published by CNBC after research commissioned by the Dutch FMCG company revealed that the advertising world is failing to reflect the zeitgeist in parts of the region. The study analyzed 500...
L’Oréal promotes Malaysia marketing director to CMO
L’Oréal Malaysia has promoted marketing director Lee Lim Meng to the role of Chief Marketing Officer, according to a report by Advertising + Marketing. Having held the position of Marketing Director with the company for over two years, Meng is said to have also held...
Bod Australia receives grant for cannabinoid research
Bod Australia has received an Innovations Connections Grant from the Australian Federal Government in order to assist a partnership with researchers from the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative in order to further ‘develop the methods and materials required to...
Jo Malone London launches bespoke fragrance service on Tmall
Jo Malone London is encouraging Chinese customers to go bespoke with a new tool featured prominently on its recently launched Tmall store, according to a report published by Glossy. The Estee Lauder Companies-owned fragrance brand is encouraging shoppers to answer a...
Iba Halal Care raises Rs15 crore in funding round
The owner of India’s first halal certified cosmetics brand, Iba Halal Care, has raised RS15 crore in series A1 funding. The round was led by Addvantis Enterprises, according to a report published by India Retailing. “We are thrilled to have raised this round of...
Walgreens Boots Alliance launches Tmall flagship for Boots own labels
Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global. Its presence on the Alibaba-owned platform will allow the pharmacy chain to launch its Boots own label brands onto the Chinese market, reaching half a billion consumers. No7,...
Procter & Gamble stops sale of badger hair brushes following PETA animal cruelty claims
Personal care giant Procter & Gamble has announced it will cease sales of the badger-haired brushes sold via it’s The Art of Shaving brand due to a PETA expose that highlighted the cruelty inflicted on the animals in Chinese badger farms. According to PETA,...
L’Occitane expands further into China with launch of flagship store on JD.com
French beauty brand L’Occitane is expanding further into the Chinese beauty market with the launch of a new flagship store on JD.com. L’Occitane’s store will sell a full range of the company’s skincare and beauty range with the company offering a free gift to...
Mike Wanliss announced as Boots Retail Thailand new Managing Director
Boots Retail Thailand has announced the appointment of Mike Wanliss as it’s new Managing Director, effective 21 January, 2019. Wanliss will report to Dean Thompson, Vice President and Regional Managing Director Asia for international retail, Walgreens Boots Alliance,...
‘We’re better than Chanel’: North Korea opens Unhasu cosmetic factory to media
North Korea has opened up a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang to the wider world, via the media, for the first time, according to a report published by Global Times. The high-tech facility produces North Korea’s well known Unhasu brand, among others, and has been charged...
Unilever announces support for Sabah sustainable palm oil project at Global Climate Action Summit
As part of its goal of achieving a deforestation-free supply chain, Unilever will support an initiative led by Forever Sabah, World Wildlife Find Malaysia and PONGO Alliance to help sustainably certify 60,000 hectares of palm oil plantation. The Malaysian state of...
L’Oréal Paris brings message of female empowerment to PDFC Bridal Fashion Week
The eighth edition of Pakistan Design Fashion Council L’Oréal Paris Bridal Week (#PLBW18) took place from September 4 through 6, 2018 in Lahore. This year, the Pakistan Fashion Design Council opened the platform to a host of fresh, new bridal designers while the...
Unilever on the hunt for Singapore ad agency
Unilever has invited four agencies to pitch for its creative account, covering home and personal care brands on the Singapore market, according to a report published by Marketing. The Dutch FMCG company is said to have narrowed the field down to Goodstuph, GOVT, TSLA...
Korean trade authorities sponsor K Beauty fair in US to boost SME business development in the country
The Ministry of Trade, Infrastructure and Energy and Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) has sponsored a New York and New Orleans-based K Beauty fair in order to promote small to medium sized K Beauty businesses in the US. As part of the fair, KOTRA has...
K Beauty brand Aesthetic Hydration Cosmetics launches pop up store to celebrate launch into Chinese market
K Beauty brand Aesthetic Hydration Cosmetics (AHC) has launched a new pop up store in Shanghai in a celebration of its entry into the Chinese market. The store is inviting consumers to try the company’s flagship products, such as its anti-ageing moisturizers, with...
Sephora appeals to Chinese shoppers with WeChat program, Z Tao as brand ambassador and concept store
Sephora has named Chinese singer Z Tao as brand ambassador as it prepares to launch its first concept store for Asia in Shanghai, according to a report published by China.org.cn. The announcement was made at a press conference in Shanghai where the LVMH-retailer also...
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma to step down in 2019; Daniel Zhang named as successor
Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma has announced his intention to step down from the role on September 10, 2019. Ma will be succeeded by current CEO Daniel Zhang. Ma issued a letter to Alibaba’s customers, employees and shareholders reassuring them of a smooth...
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