Knoll Printing & Packaging won Best CSR Initiative at the Shanghai LuxePack in Green Awards for its annual Knoll Gives Back Day. The award was received at LuxePack Shanghai, which Knoll exhibited at for the first time this year. Knoll Gives Back Day is part of Knoll's ongoing commitment to sustainability and to protect our people and planet. Knoll Gives Back Day was launched to bring the whole company out of their offices and into their local community. It is an annual event where each... - Industry buzz / Asia / Pacific ..read more

Prestige beauty retailer Sephora has officially launched clean skincare brand Drunk Elephant across all its online channels and 250 brick-and-mortar stores in Mainland China, with a plan to expand to 300 stores by the end of the year. "As brand launches go, this year will be a momentous one for Sephora as we leverage our global resources to diversify our brand and product offering in this key market," said Alia Gogi, Asia President at Sephora. "From clean and sophisticated to accessible and... - Industry buzz / Asia / Pacific ..read more

Beiersdorf and Rubedo Life Science have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to develop a breakthrough anti-aging solution for the global face care market. The German beauty giant additionally joins Rubedo as strategic investor, having participated in its recently closed Series A financing round through its Oscar & Paul Corporate Venture Capital Fund. Rubedo Life Science is a California-headquartered biotech company with an expertise in the development of solutions targeting... - Industry buzz ..read more

Roquette, a French manufacturer of plant-based ingredients for the nutrition, health and personal care markets and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients, has appointed Barentz International as the sole distributor for their cosmetics ingredients in the United States of America (USA). This distribution partnership between Roquette Beauté and Barentz is effective as of May 1, 2024. The partnership between Roquette Beauté and Barentz has already proven successful in the European... - Industry buzz / North America ..read more

L'Oréal USA has announced the appointment of Silvia Galfo as President of the L'Oréal Luxe Division in the United States. In this role, Galfo will report to David Greenberg, CEO, L'Oréal USA and President, North America Zone. She will join the management committee of L'Oréal USA as well as the global Luxe management committee. Galfo succeeds Megan Grant who was appointed to the role in May 2019. Galfo was previously the first-ever Chief Growth Officer for the Luxe Division in the United... - Industry buzz / North America ..read more

With sales that increased twofold in 2023, the Bâton Rouge concept of custom lipsticks is taking off. Christelle Percheron, the Company's Founder, has taken the stumbling blocks out of the lipstick buying process: Will I find the right shade? Will I get good advice? Will the in-store lighting reflect reality? At Bâton Rouge, everything has been done to ensure a perfect experience: to create her dream shade, the customer gets thirty minutes of personalised advice from a make-up artist. As a... - Companies & industry / Europe ..read more

The manufacturer of cardboard for folding boxes continues to increase its capacities. The company, which is part of Metsä Group, has inaugurated Europe's largest and most modern folding boxboard machine in Husum, Sweden. Metsä Board, inaugurated its upgraded folding boxboard machine in Husum, Sweden, on the 11th of April. Invited to the inauguration ceremony were, among others, project partners and representatives of Örnsköldsvik municipality, Swedish parliament and the forest industry.... - Packaging & design / Europe ..read more

“Created by an artificial intelligence”: if this indication does not exist (yet?), perhaps it will, in time, be affixed to perfume packaging? Norwegian researchers have shown that it is possible to recreate fragrances using specially trained AI. Together with his colleagues, Idelfonso Nogueira, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), managed to recreate two fragrance formulas using Artificial Intelligence [1]. Two... - Science, R&D ..read more

With 3,012 exhibitors and 248,500 visitors from 150 countries, the 55th edition of Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna has once again demonstrated its global appeal. After selecting ten of the emerging beauty brands illustrating the main trends at this year's show, Premium Beauty News has spotted five packaging innovations that should not be missed in the Cosmopack section! Geka launches formulation compliant recycled PP The manufacturer of beauty packaging has introduced a... - Packaging & design ..read more

Last year was marked by double-digit growth in sales of prestige beauty products in Brazil, according to Circana. The market was driven by the dynamism of makeup and e-commerce. Prestige beauty generated sales of more than 3 billion reais (around USD 576 million) in Brazil last year, an increase of 13% compared to 2022. “Globally, 2023 was an extremely positive year for the prestige segment, with double-digit growth in mature markets like North America and Europe, and Brazil was no... - Markets & trends / Latin America ..read more