Speaking exclusively with Cosmetics Design Asia, Delon Wang, Trends Manager, Asia-Pacific at Mintel, explains how Australia-hailed logos are being utilised on beauty and personal care items.
Asia’s largest health and wellness consumer show, Green Queen Expo 2018, will showcase all elements of living a healthy eco-lifestyle, drawing upon natural beauty and cosmetics, and holistic health.
In the final part of our five-part interview with Dr. Jochen Krauss, economist, pricing expert and Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners, we learn about the final two myths of modern-day value pricing to help offer food for thought when forming...
Simon-Kucher & Partners identified five common myths relating to value pricing in its recent ‘Value Pricing in the Chemical Industry - Rebooted’ whitepaper, so we’ve put these to Dr. Jochen Krauss, economist, pricing expert and Managing Partner of...
As APAC navigates regulatory variations and ongoing updates across the region, we asked Dr. Jochen Krauss, economist, pricing expert and Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners the impact that this ambiguity has on innovation for cosmetics and...
We spoke with Dr. Jochen Krauss, economist, pricing expert and Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners to talk through the concept of failure and how brands can improve their value pricing in 2018.
In this five-part interview special with Dr. Jochen Krauss, an economist, pricing expert and Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher & Partners, we explore the concept of value and how cosmetic and personal care brands can transform their positioning and...
Yonwoo Packaging's highly innovator skin care dispenser design walked away with the top prize in the best skin care packaging category for Cosmopack Asia awards. Cosmetics Design was at the event, held in Hong Kong last month, and cornered a company...
Cosmetics Design caught up with Cosmopack Asia show director Rossano Bozzi to find out about all the developments at the expanded packaging event, held in Hong Kong recently. This year's innovations included a full make-up compact production line,...
Cosmoprof Asia 2017 achieved the seemingly impossible and was even bigger than previous years. This gallery contains some of the highlights, including the award winners, Cosmotalk conference presentation highlights and some of the most outstanding exhibitor...
The personal care company will build a new production plant for skin care cosmetics to respond to growing demands and to complement the company's existing three factories in Japan.
The turnout for the Reed Exhibitions-organised event rose by 17% as in-cosmetics Asia welcomed more professionals from over 70 countries around the world.
With the technological landscape becoming more and more diverse, we caught up with Pranktik Mazumdar, Managing Partner, Happy Marketer to find out how brands can best utilise these channels to market their brands and new launches.
We spoke with Florence Bernardin, Founder of Information & Inspiration, about the rising popularity of immersive and experiential shopping throughout Asia.
Yusuke Chikamatsu from the Cosmetic Raw Materials Department at raw material handler and distributor, Kaneda, talks us through their business aims, along with the functionality and high-quality nature of Made in Japan items.
Ahead of next week’s in-cosmetics Asia three-day showcase, we caught up with Nicole Fall, Founder of Asian Consumer Intelligence, to examine how the natural trend is being shaped by demands for simple natural items and clear labelling requirements.
Asia’s leading personal care ingredients event will celebrate its 10th instalment by welcoming first-time speakers and exhibitors, and unveiling recent product launches.
We continued exploring the changing personal care space with Mário Braz de Matos and Joël Céré of Flying Fish Lab to delve into the opportunities available for SMEs and ask what the future of personal care innovation has in store.
Marketing its open innovation consultancy and ahead of its presentation at the upcoming in-cosmetics Asia event, we caught up with Mário Braz de Matos and Joël Céré of Flying Fish Lab to ask about the company’s success to date and its approach to tackling...
The leading provider of insights and analytics, Clarivate Analytics, reveals in its 2017 State of Innovation Report: The Relentless Desire to Advance report how patented inventions from China have slowed down and R&D investment has reduced.
As ISO 16128 aims to harmonise the global natural and organic space, we spoke with Dr Laurent Sousselier, Chief scientific officer, UNITIS (European Organisation of Cosmetics Ingredients Industries and Services) on its scope and impact on the industry.
A panel of experts speaking at last week’s MakeUp in New York color cosmetics trade show shared data, insights, and anecdotes explaining why and how the Korean beauty trend is growing in the States.
With natural actives becoming a commonplace element of many formulators' ingredient lists and as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 16128 provides guidelines on definitions for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients, we...
Next year’s Tokyo Pack 2018 strives to develop new international audiences for Asia's global packaging technology as it gets ready to launch creative, cross-cultural relationships and current explanations to packaging questions.
As the natural labelling and claims market has an increasingly positive impact on consumer purchasing decisions, we spoke to Belinda Carli, Director, Institute of Personal Care Science, about the influence this has in Australia and New Zealand and asked...
Cosmoprof Asia 2017, the favourite Asia Pacific (APAC) event that reveals the latest trends and novelties in the cosmetics industry, prepares for new awards to recognise cutting-edge developments in the region.
Biotechnology ingredients provider Nexgen has opted for Thinfilm’s NFC solutions as a means of enhancing its global supply chain to provide heightened security and distribution transparency.
Japanese heavyweight names, Shiseido, Kose, Kanebo, are using ‘Made in Japan’ labels on their products to engage Asian shoppers, notably Chinese consumers.
French luxury group, Kering, and e-commerce marketplace, Alibaba Group, partner to engage in joint enforcement actions to prevent online and offline cosmetics infringements and protect intellectual property rights.
Belinda Carli, Director, Institute of Personal Care Science, highlights how today’s cosmetics and personal care brands are centring on including negative ‘free from’ claims that are creating misplaced fear in consumers.
With convenience hot on the list of priorities dominating consumer decision making, we spoke to Matthew Crabbe, Director of Research, Asia-Pacific at Mintel on how we can expect this to impact the beauty and personal care industry.
Both companies serve the cosmetics and personal care industries (among others). But this deal advances WestRock’s business in Australia, where Hanapak is well established in the consumer packaging market.
Speciality chemical distributor and supplier, Azelis, makes inroads in the Oceanic cosmetics region with its purchase of manufacturer and formulations supplier, Chemcolor.
At the recent Cosmoprof North America event we caught up with a spokesperson for the Taiwanese brand Reise. What is different is that not only is the Taiwanese hair and skin care line formulated using rice bran, the material has also been incorporated...
In association with MEC, The Hurun Research Institute releases its 'China HNWI Gifting White Paper 2017’, citing its findings on gifting and high net worth individual (HNWI) demands in China.
Senior Correspondent Deanna Utroske is the guest on the latest edition of Beauty is Your Business, in which she chats with the podcast’s hosts about the indie beauty revolution, the latest ingredient trends, and much more. Take a break from the daily...
Japanese cosmetics consumers demand “healthier, safer and more ethically conscious products” resulting from changing lifestyles, which is generating growing interest in the natural, organic and environmentally-friendly cosmetics areas.