The company manufactures ingredients, including bio-based Zemea propanediol for use in personal care product formulations, at its facility in Loudon, Tennessee. This month DuPont Tate & Lyle announced a facility expansion that will make storage and...
As part of the newly announced deal, Birchbox is reinventing the Walgreens beauty department to be more experiential and include more prestige brands. Effectively, the drug store chain and the subscription box company are teaming up on a curated omnichannel...
At the start of October, the 15-year-old Canadian cosmetics and fragrance company announced a name change, a portfolio change, and a mission change. Additionally, there are plans for the Clean Beauty Collective to add new personal care and home categories...
This month, the cosmetic pigments maker announced that current Sun Chemical president Rudi Lenz will become vice chair of the board in January and a new president will take over.
Today, the company with plans to become “the dominant integrated medical cannabis company in Latin America” announced retail, online, and wholesale distribution deals that will ensure its Kuida-branded women’s skin care products make their way into the...
Beauty, personal care, and fragrance manufacturers are growing bigger and growing globally. In recent months there have been notable investments in construction, acquisitions, and corporate expansions into new markets. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at...
The France-based brand owner says that the launch aims to promote an entrepreneurial spirit to promote the start-up of new and innovative cosmetic and personal care brands.
Last year, Miriam Vareldzis launched a new venture—a beauty industry supply business dedicated to natural fragrance and ingredient transparency. Today, Palette Naturals has clients in 8 countries and the company’s fragrance accords are used in skin care,...
The website updates are meant to help the company’s customers (which include cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance makers) navigate more easily to the information they need as well as to clearly delineate Emerald’s market-focused business units.
Late last week the company hosted a ground-breaking ceremony in Madison, Wisconsin, where Amcor will be improving and building on to its current production plant in the area. The company’s decision to invest in growth will augment not only Amcor’s packaging...
The direct-sales beauty, personal care, and wellness company announced plans this week to streamline operations in New York State. Avon is closing offices and reducing staff, all in an effort to “fuel growth,” according to company executives.
The global hair care and hair styling company announced this month that the brand Theorie is launching a line of hair care in Canada. The Theorie Sage collection is comprised of products formulated with very of-the-moment ingredients like argan, charcoal,...
The New York-based beauty and personal care ingredient maker announced this week that a collective of South Korean entities will acquire Momentive in a deal valued at just over $3 billion.
Upon celebrating 40 years in the makeup pencil and pen supply business at a reception last night in New York City, the company announced plans for a first North American manufacturing facility.
Botanical-based ingredients player Sabinsa has announced that its USA operations has appointed a new CEO and member of the board of directors – Asha Ramesh.
Regenerative agriculture is slowly making inroads into the consumer mindset but still remains a mystery to most. To get to grips with the concept this article takes a look at the most important element: the soil.
Founders of indie beauty and wellness businesses have one final chance to take advantage of a BeautyX educational event this year. The two-day seminar on financing, funding, and investor capital—complete with panel discussions, case studies, networking...
Relocating an emerging cosmetics or personal care brand from its comfortable, original market to stores and consumers an ocean away is no doubt challenging. But companies like Umma represent a new generation of beauty distributors, accelerating and investing...
Support services for cosmetics and personal care startups are showing up in every corner of the industry. And new brand founders can get a multitude of help from PR firms, ingredient makers, contract manufacturers, packaging companies. Still, full-service...
Avon’s growth in Latin American markets over the last couple of has slowed significantly in the first two quarter sales of 2018, as it hit challenges in the Brazil market.
The brand led by CEO Thomas Shipley is well know for its direct-response TV retail presence. And just last year the brand began to sell at Ulta stores. Now Keranique is adding another retail channel, teaming up with salon professionals to get the brand’s...
The private equity – backed label maker has, since 2011, been distinctly acquisitive. Resource Label Group’s deal to acquire Ingenious Packaging is the company’s 11th acquisition in that time.
The annual winners of the ICMAD Cosmetic Innovator of the Year Awards (CITY), were announced this week at the Cosmoprof North America event in Las Vegas.
The beauty sampling company announced the transaction late last week. It’s a deal that lets Arcade take over a nearly 80,000 square-foot facility in New Jersey and lets Suite K refocus their beauty and personal care contract manufacturing business.
As global players, the well-being of cosmetics and personal care companies depends, in large measure, on an open international marketplace free from excessive duties, which have a tendency to depress manufacturing growth and, in turn, dampen robust industry...
In June, the private equity firm Gryphon Investors invested heavily in the masstige beauty brand. Now Grace Ray, a cosmetics and personal care industry leader, has accepted the board’s invitation to join the company as CEO at the end of the month. And...
Monday in New York City, Cosmetics Design sat down with Stefano Curti, the privately owned company’s new global president, to discuss how he plans to grow “the largest indie company in beauty” into a consummate multinational, leading the industry in skin...
Reports are circulating this week that P&G will pay close to $250m for the popular skin care brand founded by Lilli Gordon and known as First Aid Beauty.
This week the consumer division of the global investment company announced its minority investment in the makeup brand created just two years ago by the woman Vogue calls “the most influential make-up artist in the world.”
Late last week the color cosmetics brand best known for its 3-free nail polish was acquired by Astral Brands. It’s the latest resolute move from this privately help beauty corporation as it buys and builds brands on the way to becoming a formidable power...
Founded in 2011, Mazza Innovation has made a name for itself over the years for its botanical extraction technology—a process that is solvent free and instead uses pressurized low polarity water. It’s tech that Sensient will now leverage to develop clean...
Edmonton, Alberta – based Aurora Cannabis announced this week that the company has made a strategic investment in Evio. And, together the two Canadian companies intend to develop and sell cannabis-based cosmetics.
Again Coty has partnered with the market expansion services company, in this instance to advance the beauty maker’s professional hair care business in Singapore and Malaysia.
The international fragrance maker has embarked on a two-phase facility improvement project, which will in turn expand the company’s capabilities—blending raw materials, essential oils, and molecules—in Mexico and the surrounding region.
The cosmetics industry in Europe is living through a challenging time: Brexit is looming, for one thing, and for another, the industry is under frequent, intense scrutiny for its practices and impact (bans on microplastics and animal testing are key examples)....
At the start of the month, Sun Chemical announced the deal—one that moves Sun as tep closer to its goal of being the preeminent pigment supplier in the global makeup manufacturing industry.
The personal care brand (which is a subsidiary of Fox Group, an apparel retailer based in Israel) entered the Canadian beauty market place late last month. And within the next several months, Laline will open a handful of retail locations across Ontario.
Claire Chang of igniteXL has teamed up with Draper University on a new project calculated to bolster early-stage startups that are levering technology to disrupt business as usual in the cosmetics and personal care industry. The inaugural SVBeautyTech...
At the end of June, the personal care and fine fragrance ingredient supplier announced the opening of two new facilities in Asia. Bell has confidence that the additional presence in these countries and access to local market intelligence will enrich the...
This week, New Jersey – based Agilex Fragrances announced the acquisition of California-based Fragrance West. As a result of the deal, Agilex has manufacturing facilities on both coasts, a fact that the company believes will be a distinct advantage in...
The deal, announced just this morning, expands Kramer’s business into the hair care and scalp care space—and is likely the first of many transactions that diversify the OTC company’s brand portfolio.
This week, Sally Beauty began accepting applications for its new Cultivate program, an initiative meant to support women’s entrepreneurship in the hair care industry and bring innovative new products to the company’s customers. But unlike similar industry...
The new company, started in April by Conrad Plimpton (best known as the founder and chairman of Inolex), is endeavoring to be a major figure in the sustainable cosmetics and personal care supply chain. SBI is partnering with and buying up natural, organic,...
The digital-first, millennial-focused beauty and hair color brand announced the deal Monday; explaining that with the benefit of private equity funds, Panagakis will facilitate an expansion of Lime Crime into new categories and even more retail channels...
The privately-owned beauty company is known for its portfolio of non-competing color cosmetics brands, like Physicians Formula and wet n wild. With this latest deal, Markwins adds an MUA brand to the mix and there are plans to expand Markwins with acquisitions...
The beauty and personal care ingredient distributor has a good track record here in the States and has strategically partnered with regional ingredient makers over the years. Now, Netherlands-based IMCD has seized the opportunity to grow in the US market...
On Friday, the accomplished beauty executive became president of the Bare Escentuals business, taking leadership of two color brands: bareMinerals and BUXOM. The new role is in addition to her work as president of Shiseido’s Global Makeup Center of Excellence,...
