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Avon to cut 1,200 jobs
Industry buzz
Avon announced it will reorganise its global activities, including realignments in its global supply chain manufacturing operations,...
Action group launches boycott campaign against Ahava Cosmetics
Companies & industry
Code Pink, a US anti-war group that is mainly composed of women, is launching a boycott campaign against Israel’s biggest cosmetics maker...
Faber-Castell Cosmetics: the pencil, nothing but the pencil (for the time being)!
Packaging & design
The Faber-Castell group will be celebrating 250 years of existence in 2011. For this “institution in writing instruments,” cosmetic...
MWV: Olivier Trevidic appointed Director North America Sales
Industry buzz
Olivier Trevidic has been promoted to director of folding carton sales for North America within the Beauty & Personal Care business...
Sustainable packaging is an emerging issue
Markets & trends
A new report from market analyst firm Datamonitor identifies that sustainable packaging is a growing consumer issue. At present consumer...
Beyond Beauty: winds of change over the Parisian show
Markets & trends
Beyond Beauty Paris will be held from 13 to 16 September 2009 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The event wil bring together,...
Beiersdorf with new website
Industry buzz
Beiersdorf has unveiled its new Internet sites www.Beiersdorf.de and www.Beiersdorf.com, and announced the launch of its mobile website...
"Full service just cannot be improvised", Laurent Dodet (Fareva)
Packaging & design
Since several years the Fareva group has penetrated all segments of the cosmetic formulation. For two years now, the group is proposing...
Child labour involved in mica sourcing
Industry buzz
Child labour is involved in the sourcing of mica used in some cosmetics and make-up products, wrote the Sunday Times in an article...
Alain Chevassus, Cosfibel: "proximity and creativeness to deal with the crisis"
Companies & industry
Packaging supplier Cosfibel is fighting the crisis through cost reductions and a strategy of creativity, and manufacturing and commercial...
