Today, the biotech company announced plans to add a 7th clean consumer brand to its portfolio. This just one day after the ingredient maker publicized a deal to acquire a tech company called Beauty Labs International.
ATHR Beauty, the brand Tiila Abbitt is leading to “disrupt the $500 billion beauty industry with clean and sustainable makeup that works,” is in the midst of a funding raise; but it’s not the usual sort.
Croda International-owned Iberchem Group has signed an agreement to acquire French fragrance house Parfex to strengthen sustainable and natural certified offerings and enhance European market presence.
Lotus Herbals has launched a new premium clean beauty brand that it believes can surpass $10m this year on the back of the strong market demand for clean beauty products.
In a deal expected to close today, DSM is buying the synthetic biotechnology company’s flavor and fragrance intermediates business to augment its own aroma ingredients offerings and bring bio-based fragrance inputs to the cosmetics industry.
The global beauty industry is working hard to make circularity a mainstream reality, reinventing and reconsidering all aspects of complex supply chains. But what does the future truly hold as industry tries to close the loop?
This week Yooma announced having closed an acquisition deal with Montana-based Socati Corp—a transaction that expanded the Yooma Wellness (skin care and beauty) business in to the US.
Not all biotechnology is the same: biological mechanisms and human interventions vary company to company and process to process. Having signed a new LATAM distribution deal this month, Vytrus Biotech is bringing its novel cosmetic actives (developed using...
This month, as in-person learning resumed in Shelby County Tennessee, local beauty maker Ampro Industries delivered more than 6,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to help keep students, teachers, and staff safe.
Australian cosmeceuticals brand Ultraceuticals is moving at full speed with US expansion, with plans to expand nationwide by July, after bouncing back following a series of COVID-19 delays.
CosmeticsDesign editors break down the beauty and personal care acquisitions, product innovations and challenges that have arisen under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This month, the international specialty chemicals company announced a deal to buy Alban Muller—a longstanding natural ingredients and product manufacturer.
Just days after TricorBraun was acquired by Ares Management and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, the beauty packaging company announced a deal to buy RODA.
L’Oréal’s Garnier brand has received Cruelty Free International’s Leaping Bunny approval on its entire global portfolio after months of work with its vast supplier network – a move that proves exactly what is possible on a mass beauty scale, says the...
The Toronto, Canada – based wellness company announced plans to purchase 4 brands from EMMAC Life Sciences Group in exchange for shares of Yooma, equivalent to $8.1m US dollars.
In June 2020, the color cosmetics brand pledged to contribute $1m to help end social injustice. In late February 2021, Anastasia Beverly Hills fulfilled that commitment with a final instalment going to fund Black-owned small businesses.
This summer, a new series called Going Public will stream on Entrepreneur.com and across that publication’s social channels. Both accredited and non-accredited investors will have the opportunity to invest in companies appearing on the series.
The packaging and dispensing technologies company announced Q4 and full 2020 results last month, foregrounding “the resiliency of the Company’s business model” during COVID-19.
In recent weeks, the 25-year-old hair brand announced new brand positioning, an updated brand name, and new packaging as well as a Strategic Review Process, which could lead to the sale of company assets.
Prestige beauty major The Estée Lauder Companies will up its investment in mass functional beauty player Deciem, establishing terms for full ownership in three years – a move that will diversify it into the increasingly important masstige market, an expert...
Procter & Gamble will continue to prioritise superior product design, packaging, and retail execution because it is a far-reaching opportunity that can strengthen long-term competitiveness, says its vice chairman, COO and CFO.
Personal care major Unilever has begun the process of separating out some of its smaller beauty and personal care brands as part of a portfolio reshuffle that will also see potential acquisitions in prestige beauty, according to its CEO.
International beauty major L’Oréal has reported an overall loss in net profit for the full year of 2020, despite a spike in sales for the fourth quarter, most notably in active cosmetics and across China.
At the start of the month, South Africa – based Sasol Chemicals and Univar Solutions announced a distribution agreement that has Univar as the company’s primary distributor of alcohols and surfactants here in the US as well as in Canada.
International beauty major Revlon has partnered with MDR Brand Management to create a global brand extension strategy that takes it into new spaces and drives deeper consumer engagement across the EMEA, APAC and Americas.
Japanese cosmetic giant Shiseido Company has announced the decision to sell its low-cost personal care business to CVC Capital Partners in a deal worth 160 billion yen ($1.5bn) in order to focus on its more high-end cosmetic brands.
Unilever-owned POND’S says its goal is to double its e-commerce business over the next five years as it aims to ramp up growth in the South East Asian region.
Just in time for Black History Month, the multinational cosmetic and personal care company has announced a grant program—deadline February 18, 2021—to support startups and small businesses.
US biotech company Amyris will be expanding Biossance into China in February 2021 through e-commerce as it ramps up its focus on the Asia Pacific market.
Smith & Vandiver Corporation has been manufacturing beauty and personal care products for multinationals, store brands, and startups since the 1970s. Now, the California – based company is part of the San Francisco Equity Partners investment portfolio.
Personal care major Johnson & Johnson has reported a dip in full-year earnings for 2020 despite a sales lift for the last quarter but says it remains confident in the company’s broad-based strengths moving into 2021.
Personal care major Unilever has set aside more money to conduct business with suppliers owned or managed by under-represented groups, including those led by women and people with disabilities.
Today, the Tennessee-based specialty surfactants company announced that work has begun on a new manufacturing facility that will make the most of regional localization efforts in and beyond Saudi Arabia.
UK e-commerce major The Hut Group has aggressively expanded in recent months, propelling it way ahead of competitors in health and beauty, but it must now deepen its customer base to continue leading in such a crowded market, says GlobalData.
LeBaronBrown Industries, the investment management firm behind LBB, specializes in acquisition-led growth and has, just this month, announced acquiring majority stake of CCS.
Previously known as New Avon, the North American business hopes to focus attention away from recent corporate history and toward the 135 years of success the brand has in this region.
Singapore skin care firm A DrBrand is looking to enter North America in 2021, and hoping to expand its presence in Europe, with its doctor-led products.
The cordless-hair-tool startup, founded by Stacey Boguslavskaya and Monica Abramov in 2017, plans to use the capital to develop new tech, expand internationally, and double the size of the Lunata team.
This month the beauty maker announced two new Directors—Anna Adeola Makanju and Mariasun Aramburuzabala Larregui—as well as the departure of Paul S. Michaels.
Late last week the specialty chemical company announced construction of a new production facility in Lufkin, Texas—a legally designated Foreign Trade Zone.
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