Growth of the full-service business
Lessonia, a French specialist of natural ingredients and formulas, is rapidly developing its full-service business, which already represents 50% of its turnover. For the time being, this activity concerns mostly products for beauty parlours, with references as prestigious as Sothys and Decléor, but the company also wants to develop the retail market and has recently produced a glitter oil for a large perfume chain store which will be be marketed on the occasion of the end of year festivities.
No question, however, for the French company, based in the Brittany region, to dilute its know-how. "We don’t want to be another of these contract manufacturer. We have specialized in atypical formulas and products, " explains Christophe Wincler, CEO of Lessonia. "It is precisely for this reason that for most of our developments, we also provide the ingredients. We are in a particularly remarkable spiral development where our activity as ingredient suppliers pulls our full service activity upwards and vice versa. "
New investments
To cope with its ongoing development, the company which already employs 40 people, must continue its industrial investments and has just put into service a new filling line.
Lessonia, who attended In-Cosmetics Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, and Cosmoprof Asia in Hong Kong also announced its intention to enter the raw material market for make-up applications.
"We are going to introduce new ranges of ingredients and formulas at the next In-Cosmetics in Milan. Especially with the Microzest 25 [1] an ingredient featuring sufficient fineness to allow its use quite appropriately as a make-up pigmen, " added Christophe Wincler. So let’s meet next spring, on 29, 30 and 31 March, more precisely, for the 2011 edition of in-Cosmetics.
