The beauty industry can connect better with consumers by rethinking how it communicates and markets sustainable product offerings, bringing additional aspects into the narrative, say industry executives.
Packaging supplier Rexam has announced it is now ‘actively marketing’ its Personal Care business for sale following the release of the company’s 2011 results.
Big US personal care players struggling with increasing raw material prices are announcing retail price increases to ease the pressure on shrinking margins.
Johnson and Johnson (J&J) has reported strong second quarter
results although price increases within its consumer goods division
will be implemented throughout the year.
Until now it has been raw material and chemical providers that have
been increasing their prices, but Germany-based active ingredients
player Symrise now joins the growing list.
L'Oreal received special praise in an ING financial report that
predicts significant energy price rises in the coming years and
expects large companies to be the best placed to absorb the cost
inflation.
Having revealed mixed first half results, Swiss specialty chemicals
player Ciba has announced an investment programme that promises
increased expenditure on technologies to develop chemicals that
will focus on nanotechnology, alongside...
As part of its massive worldwide restructuring program, Avon has
announced that a further 900 jobs are to go, in addition to the
1,300 jobs it axed at the end of April.
Outsourcing may have helped Fytokem Products, a Canadian producer
of plant-based ingredients, increase its sales from last quarter,
but they were still well down on the same period last year.