‘They’re showing us how to do business in the 21st-century’: J&J learns from Vogue International
Johnson & Johnson is learning about the 21st-century marketplace from the newest addition to its portfolio, Vogue International, according to a report published by PR Week. J&J’s Corporate Communications Officer and VP of Global Corporate Affairs, Michael...
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Shiseido appoints Jill Scalamandre President of Bare Escentuals Beauty
Shiseido Americas has announced the appointment of Jill Scalamandre as President of Bare Escentuals Beauty Inc, dba, bareMinerals and BUXOM, effective immediately. Currently President of Shiseido’s Global Makeup Center of Excellence, with this new role Scalamandre’s...
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L Catterton makes ‘strategic minority’ US$200 million investment in Honest Co
Following the news that Honest Co is gearing up to launch its beauty products in Europe, the Jessica Alba-owned firm has revealed that it has received a US$200 million cash injection from private equity firm L Catterton. The investment will be used to ‘further promote...
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Industry First : Garnier products become first mass market brand to receive Cradle to Cradle certification
Garnier has received the Cradle to Cradle Silver certification for five of its products from the Garnier SkinActive line. The L’Oréal-owned company achieved the award based on an evaluation of material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon...
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Revlon announces Mette Towley as new Global Brand Ambassador
Revlon has announced dancer and performance artist Mette Towley as its new Global Brand Ambassador. Best known for her performance in N.E.R.D’s Lemon video, Towley has been appointed as part of the brand’s Live Boldly campaign and will support the new Volumazing...
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Procter & Gamble confirms it will withdraw from Iran
Procter & Gamble has confirmed it will withdraw operations from Iran following US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the country out of an agreement that limits Tehran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. The personal care manufacturer is one of many...
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Precious moments: Sephora to launch own beauty exhibition to attract experience-led shoppers
Sephora is set to host its very own exhibition, according to a report published by the Business of Fashion. The LVMH-owned retailer will hold Sephoria House of Beauty, as the event will be known, over two days this fall in Los Angeles. Tickets to the consumer-focused...
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Talc cases latest: Imerys settles for ‘at least US$5 million’
Imerys has settled in a class action suit that alleges that the talc it supplied to Johnson & Johnson contained asbestos and therefore its use caused the plaintiffs’ ovarian cancers, according to a report published by Bloomberg. Bloomberg quotes ‘sources familiar...
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Walmart challenges Amazon Prime market space with new text-order service
Walmart has launched a new same day delivery service named Jetblack, which allows consumers to order goods via text. The new service is thought to challenge Amazon Prime’s market dominance and allows shoppers to purchase items via Walmart.com as well as rival retailer...
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Beiersdorf awards US media buying account to OMD
Beiersdorf has awarded its US media planning and buying account to OMD following a competitive pitch including agencies such as previous account holder Carat and a GroupM ‘solution’ of experts from multiple agencies in the WPP network. OMD has taken the...
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MAC Cosmetics joins the party at Sephora Canada
MAC Cosmetics has announced a new partnership with Sephora Canada. The Lauder-owned brand will sell its most popular products, seasonal launches and collaborations online at Sephora.ca from this fall. “Both MAC and Sephora have built such strong and diverse beauty...
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Honest Beauty to launch in Western Europe
The Honest Company is set to launch its beauty range across Western Europe next spring, according to a report published by Inc. The range comprises make-up, skin care and hair care products and is due to launch across Douglas stores in Germany, France, Spain , Italy,...
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This time we were the ones saying ‘no’: Mented raises US$3 million in latest funding round
Mented Cosmetics has announced that it has raised US$3 million in a new funding round, according to a report published by Forbes. CircleUp Growth Partners is named as the lead investor. “This time around we pitched to far fewer VCs – about 30 in total – and this time...
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Coty opens new HQ for salon and professional arm
Coty has cut the ribbon on a new headquarters for its salon and professional division, which includes brands such as Wella, OPI, ghd and Sebastian Professional. The Calabasas site at 2500 Park Grenada officially opened on Thursday, according to a report published by...
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Estee Lauder Companies’ Freda named to Barron’s Best CEOs 2018 List
The Estee Lauder Companies has announced that Fabrizio Freda, President and CEO, has been named to the much-vaunted Barron’s list of the World’s Best CEOs in 2018. The list of 30 top-performing executives is not ranked, and those that make the cut are selected on the...
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Saks Fifth Avenue unveils new beauty floor in New York store
Saks Fifth Avenue has unveiled its new 32,000sq ft beauty floor in its flagship New York store, which will feature more than 120 color cosmetics, skincare, fragrance and wellness brands. The floor has been expanded by 40 percent and has a heavy focus on experiential...
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L’Oréal acquires US professional hair color brand Pulp Riot
L’Oréal has announced the acquisition of US professional hair color brand Pulp Riot. Launched in 2016, Pulp Riot has used social media to build its brand, having amassed 675,000 followers and reported net sales of $11 million in 2017. The brand’s largest US...
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Walgreens launches new multi-million pound investment campaign in Puerto Rico
Walgreens has announced the launch of a new investment campaign in its Puerto Rican drug stores, which is set to amount to approximately $35 million by the end of the summer. The investment comes as part of a recovery campaign following last year’s hurricanes and will...
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Sundial appoints new Chief Operating and Brand Building Officer
Beauty marketer Sundial has appointed Kimberly Evans Paige as new Chief Operating and Brand Building Officer, a newly created role. Paige joins the company from beauty behemoth Coty, where she held the position of CMO Beauty division for North America. The marketing...
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Revlon appoints controlling shareholder’s daughter as first female CEO
Revlon has appointed Debra Perelman as the first female CEO in its 86-year history. Perelman is the daughter of the company’s controlling shareholder, billionaire Ronald Perelman and has been promoted from her position of Chief Operating Officer. The appointment comes...
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Sephora’s Classes For Confidence program offers free make-up classes to transgender community
Sephora has extended its Classes for Confidence program with the launch of a new transgender-focused program, Bold Beauty for the Transgender Community. The new complimentary in-store make-up class offering is for individuals who identify as transgender or non-binary...
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Kylie Jenner receives fan backlash for late arrival at Kylie Cosmetics Pop Up store opening
Kylie Jenner has responded to a social media backlash from her fans for reportedly turning up four hours late to the opening of her latest Kylie Cosmetics pop-up store, located in San Francisco. The pop-up store for the Kylie Cosmetics range, the latest short-term...
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Revealed: Coty to open first ever CoverGirl store in Times Square
Rumors are circulating over Coty’s plans for the flagship space it recently secured in Manhattan’s Times Square, according to a report published by the Commercial Observer. Coty USA signed a 10-year lease for the five-story 30 Times Square building earlier this month....
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Unilever’s Schmidt’s Naturals to accept bitcoin
Unilever-owned Schmidt’s Naturals has announced that it will accept payments in bitcoins, according to a report published by BTC Manager. Co-founder and CEO Michael Cammarata told CNBC that the decision to enable consumers to pay in the cryptocurrency was prompted by...
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Procter & Gamble shifts hair care accounts to Carat
Procter & Gamble has awarded the majority of its North American hair care accounts to Carat after a review, according to a report published by Ad Age. Carat, who already looks after the Aussie brand for the region, is picking up Pantene, Head & Shoulders and...
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Milani Cosmetics sells majority stake to private equity firm
Milani Cosmetics has sold a majority stake in the company to private equity form Gryphon Investors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close next month. Owners Ralph Bijou and Laurie Minc will retain ‘significant minority stakes’ in...
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Sephora to greenlight Las Vegas distribution center after US$3.12 million in tax incentives signed off?
Sephora is considering the construction of a new 715,000 square foot regional distribution center in Southern Nevada. The proposed project will ship products to stores and customers located in 11 western states. The company requested US$3.12 million in abatements,...
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Mary Kay launches new three-dimensional approach to skin ageing
Direct sales giant Mary Kay has launched a new approach to defy premature skin aging with its new patent-pending technology TimeWise Miracle Set 3D. Said to be the company’s most powerful free-radical skin regimen defense yet, the new launch is the largest in Mary...
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Grace Elizabeth announced as newest face of Estée Lauder
Model-of-the-moment Grace Elizabeth has been named as the newest face of Estée Lauder. Elizabeth will take part in campaigns as the face, spokesperson and all-round ambassador for the beauty brand and will join the likes of Kendall Jenner and Karlie Kloss Speaking of...
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Royal DSM wins patent Infringement case against Lallemend regarding Low-Glycerol Yeast Technology
Royal DSM has emerged victorious in a patent infringement case against Lallemend, with a unanimous jury verdict in a Federal court in Wisconsin concluding that all glycerol reducing ethanol yeast products, used in cosmetics, infringe DSM's US Patent 8,795,998. Despite...
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Estée Lauder Companies announces new Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
The Estée Lauder Companies has announced the appointment of Laraine Mancini as the new Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, who will report directly to Tracey T. Travis, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mancini will succeed Dennis D’Andrea,...
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Meet the Gloss Stick: Marc Jacobs Beauty debuts lip gloss-lipstick hybrid
Marc Jacobs Beauty is set to blur the lines between lip gloss and lipstick with its latest launch, according to a report published by Hypebae. The Kendo-owned luxury brand will launch the new product, Gloss Stick, which is being hailed as a trailblazing category of...
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Hawaii moves to ban chemical sunscreens
Hawaii’s law-making body is hoping to usher in a ban on two key sunscreen ingredients which it believes are responsible for the bleaching of its coral, according to a report published by Chemical Watch. If the measure is passed into law by the governor, the sale or...
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L’Occitane partners with TerraCycle to launch recycling program
L’Occitane has teamed up with TerraCycle to launch a post-consumer packaging recycling program which will see the brand encourage consumers to recycle their beauty empties in store. Shoppers will be able to drop off empty personal care and cosmetics packaging from any...
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Thanks but no thanks: MediaCom declines to participate as Revlon announces global media review
Revlon is conducting a review of its global media planning and buying accounts, according to a report published by Ad News, and incumbent agency MediaCom, who has held the account since 2010 has turned down the chance to pitch for the business. “On March 23, Revlon...
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Lady Gaga to launch make-up brand?
Lady Gaga could be set to jump on the celebrity make-up line bandwagon if a report published by Teen Vogue is to be believed. The avant garde singer is reportedly in the process of trademarking a new brand called Haus Beauty, according to documents filed with the...
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Outbreak: Shadow Holdings recalls Medline cleansing foam as FDA advises against use
The manufacturer of Medline Remedy Essentials No-Rinse Cleansing Foam, Shadow Holdings dba Bocchi Laboratories has voluntarily recalled certain lots of the product following an investigation into a multi-state Bcc outbreak conducted by the Food & Drugs...
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Sephora creates more product transparency with launch of Clean at Sephora category
US retailer Sephora has created more product transparency with the launch of the new Clean at Sephora category, which will allow consumers to more easily source items free from certain ingredients. The category, which is set to launch on 1st June, will be available...
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Revlon Q1 results miss market estimates
Revlon has reported a Q1 net sales decline of 5.7 percent to $560.7 million as opposed to $594.9 million the previous year. The decline was attributed in part to net sales decline in its Revlon, Portfolio, and Fragrances segments, however, this was partially offset by...
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Unilever unveils new look ‘Marketplace’ US headquarters
Unilever has unveiled its new look US headquarters ‘Marketplace’ with a walk-through tour of the space last week. The new ‘smart’ facility came at a cost of approximately $53 billion and is said to be a one of the most sustainable and technologically advanced...
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Coty reports ‘modest’ growth in Q3 results
Premium beauty brand Coty has reported a net revenue increase of 10 percent to $2.22 billion in its Q3 results, with its luxury and professional arms faring the best. The beauty maker reported its net loss narrowed to $77 million or 10 cents per share as opposed to a...
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Kylie Cosmetics unveils Kris Jenner social media hack hoax to promote Momager’s Mother’s Day collection
Kylie Cosmetics has unveiled a social media hack hoax, which has seen brand owner Kylie Jenner’s mom/manager Kris Jenner take over the accounts in order to promote her new collaboration with the cult beauty brand. Kris Jenner has created a new range with her daughter...
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Colgate-Palmolive announces new CFO and Vice Chairman appointments
Colgate-Palmolive has announced the appointment of Henning Jakobsen as new Chief Financial Officer who will succeed Dennis Hickey. Hickey will be promoted to Vice Chairman. Jakobsen is currently serving at the company as Vice President and Corporate Controller, having...
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Coty to open five-storey store in Times Square?
Coty USA has signed a lease for a five-floor retail building in New York’s Times Square, according to a report published by the Commercial Observer, quoting WWD as its source. The US luxury behemoth is said to have shaken on a 10-year lease for the entirety of the...
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TPG Capital to buy minority stake in Anastasia Beverly Hills?
Private equity firm TPG Capital is said to be nearing a deal to purchase a minority stake in Anastasia Beverly Hills, according to a report published by CNBC news. CNBC sources have revealed that the make-up brand boasts EBITDA of approximately US$200 million and that...
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Rodan + Fields faces lawsuit over Lash Boost side effects
The US’ top-selling skin care brand Rodan + Fields is being called to defend one of its products in court, according to a report published by CBS News. In a federal class action lawsuit, the direct sales firm is charged with violating Californian consumer protection...
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Estee Lauder to retest ad claims
The Estee Lauder Companies CEO, Fabrizio Freda has revealed that the company will retest multiple product claims after a group of employees was discovered to have intentionally altered some results, according to a report published by Allure. “We recently learned that...
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IFF acquires Frutarom for US$7.1 billion
International Flavors & Fragrances has announced that is has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Frutarom in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$7.1 billion. The acquisition will propel IFF to the position of global leader in taste, scent and...
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‘Unsatisfactory’ Q1 results cause Avon shares to dive
Avon has reported ‘unsatisfactory’ Q1 results, which have caused shares to dive 9.6 percent at $2.26 last week. Despite the direct sales company narrowing its net loss to $20.3 million from $36.5 million year on year, the number of Avon door-to-door salespeople...
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FDA issues rule violation warning to It’S Hanbul and Cosmecca
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to Korean cosmetics makers It'S Hanbul Cosmetics and Cosmecca for ‘significant violations of current good manufacturing practice.’ Both companies were pulled up for violating good manufacturing practice (CGMP)...
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