Cosmetics

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Sure Owner Exploring Sale of Personal Care Business

11 March 2019 • By Reuters

11 March 2019 • By Reuters

Helen of Troy is just the latest company looking to offload its personal care business.

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Sure Owner Exploring Sale of Personal Care Business

Helen of Troy is just the latest company looking to offload its personal care business.

With Glossier Play, Instagram's Favourite Beauty Brand Plots Its Next Chapter

4 March 2019 • By Rachel Strugatz

4 March 2019 • By Rachel Strugatz

The new brand is Glossier's most significant investment in colour cosmetics yet, and is meant to cement the company's status as a 'builder of brands.'

With Glossier Play, Instagram's Favourite Beauty Brand Plots Its Next Chapter

The new brand is Glossier's most significant investment in colour cosmetics yet, and is meant to cement the company's status as a 'builder of brands.'

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JAB Offers to Boost Stake in Coty to 60 Percent

12 February 2019 • By Reuters

12 February 2019 • By Reuters

JAB, already the largest shareholder in the beauty products company with a 40 percent stake, said it would launch a partial tender offer to buy 150 million shares.

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JAB Offers to Boost Stake in Coty to 60 Percent

JAB, already the largest shareholder in the beauty products company with a 40 percent stake, said it would launch a partial tender offer to buy 150 million shares.

Microplastics Ban Could Cost Beauty Sector Billions

30 January 2019 • By Sarah Kent

30 January 2019 • By Sarah Kent

A European Union proposal to restrict the use of microplastics could hit the cosmetics industry hardest, amounting to billions of euros in replacement costs.

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Microplastics Ban Could Cost Beauty Sector Billions

A European Union proposal to restrict the use of microplastics could hit the cosmetics industry hardest, amounting to billions of euros in replacement costs.

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PZ Cussons Sees Lower Profit as Africa Challenges Mount

29 January 2019 • By Reuters

29 January 2019 • By Reuters

The owner of Imperial Leather, Original Source and St Tropez has been struggling to turn around its African business, which contributes over a third of its revenue.

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PZ Cussons Sees Lower Profit as Africa Challenges Mount

The owner of Imperial Leather, Original Source and St Tropez has been struggling to turn around its African business, which contributes over a third of its revenue.

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L'Oréal Hoards Cosmetics in Britain as Brexit Looms

25 January 2019 • By Reuters

25 January 2019 • By Reuters

While the company stated that a no-deal Brexit would not have a major impact on sales, it is bulking up stocks in the United Kingdom, where it no longer has a manufacturing base.

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L'Oréal Hoards Cosmetics in Britain as Brexit Looms

While the company stated that a no-deal Brexit would not have a major impact on sales, it is bulking up stocks in the United Kingdom, where it no longer has a manufacturing base.

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Report: Private Equity Firms Circling Nestlé Skin Health Business

21 January 2019 • By Reuters

21 January 2019 • By Reuters

The company's Skin Health division, which includes Cetaphil and Proactiv products, accounted for about 3 percent of total sales last year.

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Report: Private Equity Firms Circling Nestlé Skin Health Business

The company's Skin Health division, which includes Cetaphil and Proactiv products, accounted for about 3 percent of total sales last year.

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EU Proposes Ban on Deliberately Added Micro-Plastics to Combat Pollution

18 January 2019 • By Reuters

18 January 2019 • By Reuters

The tiny bits of plastic end up in waterways and oceans, giving rise to increasing concern about their effect on marine ecosystems.

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EU Proposes Ban on Deliberately Added Micro-Plastics to Combat Pollution

The tiny bits of plastic end up in waterways and oceans, giving rise to increasing concern about their effect on marine ecosystems.

BoF Professional Exclusive

This K-Beauty Brand Is Bigger Than Chanel. But It’s In Trouble.

18 January 2019 • By Kati Chitrakorn

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This K-Beauty Brand Is Bigger Than Chanel. But It’s In Trouble.

Amorepacific rode the K-beauty wave to become one of Asia’s most powerful cosmetics empires, surpassing beauty sales of Chanel and LVMH. But as it grapples with a patent battle and a turbulent China market, some wonder whether its heyday might be over.

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Bringing Home the Botox: How Injectables Became the Next Frontier in On-Demand Beauty

15 January 2019 • By Rachel Strugatz

BoF Professional Exclusive

Bringing Home the Botox: How Injectables Became the Next Frontier in On-Demand Beauty

As Botox, lip fillers and other cosmetic procedures hit the mainstream, start-ups and entrepreneurial doctors are offering in-home services and opening salons that portray injecting wrinkle-smoothing neurotoxins as no different than a blowout or manicure.