Indian FDA seizes stock after Torque Pharmaceuticals found selling steroid-based cosmetics
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) of Maharashtra has ordered stock to be seized from all the shops in the region and issued notice to Himachal Pradesh-based Torque Pharmaceuticals after it was found to be using steroids in the manufacture of whitening and scar...
Weak dollar boosts domestic retail as Australian cosmetics consumers shop local
Figures released by the bU Australia, which tracks cosmetics sales data across the nation, shows a strong rise in domestic sales at the expense of online shopping and parallel imports, as the weak dollar impacts on prices. The Australian market as a whole saw sales...
Indian FDA seizes stock after Torque Pharmaceuticals found selling steroid-based cosmetics
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) of Maharashtra has ordered stock to be seized from all the shops in the region and issued notice to Himachal Pradesh-based Torque Pharmaceuticals after it was found to be using steroids in the manufacture of whitening and scar...
Weak dollar boosts domestic retail as Australian cosmetics consumers shop local
Figures released by the bU Australia, which tracks cosmetics sales data across the nation, shows a strong rise in domestic sales at the expense of online shopping and parallel imports, as the weak dollar impacts on prices. The Australian market as a whole saw sales...
Arvind to run Sephora’s Indian operations – 40 new stores planned by 2020
India’s Arvind Lifestyle Brands has signed a deal to run the Indian operations of French beauty retailer Sephora, according to a report published by the Times of India. The agreement covers both store and e-commerce rights for the country. Arvind will manage Sephora’s...
Unilever to invest US$1.12 million in China Foundry to support tech start-ups
Unilever’s global innovation incubator has teamed up with the Shanghai Technology Entreneurship Foundation for Graduates to launch its first platform for young entrepreneurs in China. The Anglo-Dutch FMCG company will invest €1 million a year to support pilot...
Japan’s beauty salons to rebrand as tourist hotspots as itanails go global
As Japan’s top cosmetics brands have become ever more reliant on the tourist dollar to boost sales, the country’s beauty salons are keen to follow suit. Professional beauty parlours are hoping to attract tourists to their doors, after nearly a third of female visitors...
Arvind to run Sephora’s Indian operations – 40 new stores planned by 2020
India’s Arvind Lifestyle Brands has signed a deal to run the Indian operations of French beauty retailer Sephora, according to a report published by the Times of India. The agreement covers both store and e-commerce rights for the country. Arvind will manage Sephora’s...
Unilever to invest US$1.12 million in China Foundry to support tech start-ups
Unilever’s global innovation incubator has teamed up with the Shanghai Technology Entreneurship Foundation for Graduates to launch its first platform for young entrepreneurs in China. The Anglo-Dutch FMCG company will invest €1 million a year to support pilot...
Japan’s beauty salons to rebrand as tourist hotspots as itanails go global
As Japan’s top cosmetics brands have become ever more reliant on the tourist dollar to boost sales, the country’s beauty salons are keen to follow suit. Professional beauty parlours are hoping to attract tourists to their doors, after nearly a third of female visitors...
Over-saturated celebrity fragrance market loses its shine
With more and more famous faces hoping to take a slice of the profitable celebrity fragrance market, which came to the fore about 13 years ago, the market is now seeing a steady decline in sales as it becomes over-saturated and consumers fall out of love with the...
Over-saturated celebrity fragrance market loses its shine
With more and more famous faces hoping to take a slice of the profitable celebrity fragrance market, which came to the fore about 13 years ago, the market is now seeing a steady decline in sales as it becomes over-saturated and consumers fall out of love with the...
Cosmetics boost South Korea’s flagging exports market
While South Korea has reported a prolonged drop in exports, policy makers are honing in on one industry that is busy making waves – cosmetics. With overseas sales of South Korean cosmetics posting a 73 per cent boom in July this year, the market is a clear growth...
L’Oreal launches legal proceedings against Australian imitator for Clarisonic brand
Legal proceedings have been launched in the federal court by L’Oreal against Australian company BrandPoint in relation to L’Oreal’s flagship brand Clarisonic and the misleading and deceptive concept of an imitation product launched by BrandPoint. Pacific Bioscience...
Cosmetics boost South Korea’s flagging exports market
While South Korea has reported a prolonged drop in exports, policy makers are honing in on one industry that is busy making waves – cosmetics. With overseas sales of South Korean cosmetics posting a 73 per cent boom in July this year, the market is a clear growth...
L’Oreal launches legal proceedings against Australian imitator for Clarisonic brand
Legal proceedings have been launched in the federal court by L’Oreal against Australian company BrandPoint in relation to L’Oreal’s flagship brand Clarisonic and the misleading and deceptive concept of an imitation product launched by BrandPoint. Pacific Bioscience...
Henkel to re-enter Indian market with purchase of stake in Jyothy Laboratories
Henkel is rumored to be re-entering the Indian market by exercising an option to purchase a 26 percent stake in Jyothy Laboratories, according to a report published in The Economic Times. Henkel, who exited the Indian market in 2011 with the sale of its operations to...
Unilever teams up with mobile marketer Brandtone to reach consumers in south-east Asia
Unilever has signed a new agreement with Irish mobile marketing agency to help target consumers in the remotest corners of south-east Asia. Brandtone will work with the Anglo-Dutch FMCG giant to reach shoppers in Thaliand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to a...
Unilever teams up with mobile marketer Brandtone to reach consumers in south-east Asia
Unilever has signed a new agreement with Irish mobile marketing agency to help target consumers in the remotest corners of south-east Asia. Brandtone will work with the Anglo-Dutch FMCG giant to reach shoppers in Thaliand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to a...
Unilever Oleochemical awarded US$81.92 million tax break in Indonesia
The Indonesian government has granted tax incentives to four companies, including Unilever Olechemical, as part of a scheme aimed at boosting growth in the economy by making the country appear attractive to investors, according to a report published by Deal Street...
Thailand aims to enter top 5 global halal exporters by 2020
Thailand has released details of a five-year plan that will see it become one of the world’s top five exporters of halal products by 2020. The country currently ranks 13th among global exporters of halal products, and has allocated a budget of THB8 billion devoted to...
L’Oreal and Solvay team up for three-year sustainable Guar farming initiative in India
French cosmetics and beauty company L’Oreal has joined forces with Solvay, a global player in guar derivatives, to launch a three-year project to educate on sustainable agricultural practices among guar bean farmers across the desert region of Bikaner, Rajasthan,...
Amway looks to increase revenue in Indian market
Cosmetics provider Amway is looking to increase its foothold in the Indian market and hopes to treble its sales in the country over the next decade. Despite global direct sales reporting a downturn globally, Amway is expecting the Indian direct sales market to explode...
New Global Director for Unilever’s Lifebuoy brand
Vinay Vinayak has been appointed as Global Business Director for Unilever’s health and hygiene skin cleansing brand Lifebuoy by Lowe Singapore, part of the Mullen Lowe Group. Following five years with Lowe’s Lifebuoy team in Mumbai, Vinayak is replacing Virat Tandon,...
Japanese cosmetics become ever more targeted to win over consumers
Japanese cosmetics manufacturers are investing in new, highly targeted products and evolving the shopping experience in order to entice consumers away from the drugstore shelves and back into the boutiques, according to a report in The Japan News. After research...
L’Oréal wins CNY1 million plus costs in Chinese intellectual property lawsuit
L’Oréal has prevailed in a case bought to the Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People’s Court, accusing two Chinese manufacturers and an online retailer of infringing its intellectual property rights. L’Oréal was awarded CNY1 million, plus CNY230,000 costs after three...
Rising profit but falling sales for Hong Kong based cosmetics retailer Bonjour
Bonjour Cosmetic has reported a 288 percent increase in sales for the first six months of the year, rising to HK424 million ($54.7 million). However, overall sales turnover fell 14.4 percent to nearly HK1.15 billion. The rise in profits for the Hong Kong-based...
Amore Pacific and LG Household & Care launch Chinese road show
In a bid to capitalise on the so-called K-Beauty boom – the explosion of Korean cosmetics in China – two of the biggest Korean beauty giants Amore Pacific and LG Household & Care have launched a roadshow in China to showcase their products. Jointly hosted by both...
China’s Jahwa to start production of Herborist cosmetics line in France and Japan
Chinese FMCG producer Shanghai Jahwa United Co has announced that it has teamed up with a Japanese partner in order to manufacture its Chinese medicine-inspired herbal cosmetics line, Herborist, in France and Japan by the end of 2015, according to a report released by...
Unilever receives Advertiser of the Year accolade at Spikes Asia Festival
Personal care giant Unilever has been named as the Advertiser of the Year at The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity. Unilever currently holds an impressive 41 spikes for its brand advertising across Asia, with the latest award recognising clients that continuously...
Kao President: I want Kao to become a global company
Kao President and CEO Michitaka Sawada has revealed that he is keen for the company to become better known outside of Japan. In an interview with the Business Times, Sawada admitted: “Although we are well-known in Japan, globally we are not. I would like for us to...
Dove launches into Philippines’s male hair care market
In a bid to capitalise on the male hair care market in the Phillipines, Unilever has launched a new shampoo line under its successful Dove brand. After some market research with consumers in the country, the company discovered their was a lack of products on the...
L’Oreal makes waves in China with Makeup Genius App
L’Oreal has reported that its app Makeup Genius, launched last year, has made up 4.7million of its downloads in China of its total 14 million over all. The app acts as a mirror and allows women to virtually try on cosmetics. The looks depend on the colours chosen by...
Korean beauty brand named in World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies list
Beauty company AmorePacific Corporation has been ranked in Forbes annual list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2015. It was the first time AmorePacific has been ranked, placed at 28th on the list. According to Forbes, “After the company released the cushion...
Development of cosmetics OEM relies on expansion of cosmetics market, says new report
According to a new report the expansion of cosmetics OEM (cosmetics original equipment manufacturer) relies heavily on the development of the cosmetics market in China. Statistics from Euromonitor state that the cosmetics retail scale was expanding and reached RMB...
Tourist spending sprees fuel Japanese cosmetics sales
Foreign tourists, particularly visitors who hail from China, have sent sales of high-end cosmetics soaring in Japan, according to a report published in the Japan Times, with Shiseido, Kao and Kanebo all benefitting from an influx of shoppers seeking out luxury goods....
India’s luxury market is booming; 18 percent CAGR prompts brands to invest in new locations
As one million young adults enter the job market every month, India’s growing thirst for luxury products is unrivalled, according to a report in the Hindu Business Line, offering enormous potential for prestige cosmetics brands looking to reach new consumers. With a...
Local players now dominate in booming Bangladesh cosmetics and toiletries market
Local brands dominate in the booming Bangladeshi cosmetics industry with a 60 percent share of the Tk150 billion market, according to a report published in The Financial Express. According to data released by the Bangladesh Cosmetics and Toiletries Manufacturers...
Unilever Pakistan partners with WWF to tackle climate change in Karachi
Unilever Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan have joined forces to increase the number of trees in Karachi, Pakistan’s capital city, in a bid to counteract increasing temperatures in the area. According to Ali Dehlavi, Senior Manager, Building Capacity on Climate Change...
L’Oreal India COO quits to start new venture
Dinesh Dayal is set to leave his post of Chief Operating Officer for L’Oreal India in order to start his own advisory venture, the company said in a statement. Dayal has worked at the cosmetics giant for over 30 years and has been instrumental in launching brands such...
Muji to launch into single brand retail segment with cosmetic sales
Japanese household goods chain Ryohin Keikaku Co Ltd (Muji) has proposed a move into single brand retail which will involve the sales of cosmetics and has filed an application with the department of industrial policy and promotion. Muji, which has 700 stores across...
Toothpaste becomes new fashion item
Thanks to fashion-savvy packaging Little Dome toothpaste is making waves in the cosmetics world. The toothpaste uses plant essential oils and comes wrapped in a colourful can. The paste was designed by Egg Endless Biotech Ltd which is based in China, and has achieved...
L’Oreal India to ‘build bridge between traditional recipes and products to modern cosmetics’
L’Oreal India Managing Director Jean-Christophe Letellier has suggested that the company would like to build bridges between traditional recipes and products to modern cosmetics, while capitalising on the ‘India beauty market growth story.’ While speaking to The...
Facial recognition technology to help boost cosmetic sales in Japan
Japanese cosmetics store Ainz & Tulpe is using the latest facial recognition technology in order to entice consumers into store. Targeting not only Japanese but also foreign consumers, the country’s largest make-up store has teamed up Dentsu and interactive...
Watchdog urges crackdown on banned cosmetics in Makati
As the growing number of banned cosmetics and slimming products continue to be sold on stalls in Guadalupe, Makati, a toxic watchdog has urged the city government of Makati to crack down on this trade. Surveillance conducted by EcoWaste Coalition Project has been...
No more sagging skin? World-first as Shiseido elucidated skin structure maintains facial morphology; skin care line to follow
Shiseido has become the world’s first company to elucidate skin structure that maintains facial skin morphology, naming it ‘dermal anchoring structures’, and is developing a skin care line designed to alleviate the problem. Joint research with Kyoichi Matsuzaki,...
Unilever CEO takes to Twitter to defend company’s stance on controversial Indian factory clean-up
Unilever Chief Executive Paul Polman has been forced to defend the company’s record on Twitter following a high-profile social media campaign accusing the company of failing in its duty to clean-up toxic waste at the site of a former thermometer factory in India. The...
Foreign tourists send 1Q profits soaring at Shiseido – sales up 20.2 percent
Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido has reported a massive 20.2 percent rise in sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2015, ending June 30, 2015. Operating income grew a massive 857.6 percent from JPY1.4 billion in the same period a year ago to JPY13 billion. Shiseido...
Swiss Mibelle to enter Indian personal care market under joint venture with Future Consumer Enterprise
Future Consumer Enterprise has announced that it has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Mibelle (Migros) to market an exclusive range of products in India, boosting the Swiss personal care manufacturer’s presence in the market. The joint venture will be based in...
Procter & Gamble cut prices to challenge rival Hindustan Unilever
In a bid to regain some of its market share lost to rival Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble has slashed the prices of its shampoos to undercut competing brands. Prices have dropped around 15 to 32 per cent with Pantene Pro V (180ml) is 32 per cent less than its...
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