Naturex, the world market leader in the development and production of natural ingredients for the cosmetics, pharma and food industries, has posted a 13.2% rise in first quarter 2013 sales to €83.1m. Personal care, the evolving arm of the company saw sales increase by 14.4% to €1.5m in the quarter with the stress on innovative products especially a range of premium African plant based combinations directed to the cosmetics market.
Growth in the Europe-Africa market was some 10.2% (€40.3m) compared with 20% for the Americas (€33.4m). Asian-Oceanic region growth in terms of comparable exchange rates was 6.2% owing to a slowdown in ingredient distribution in Australia. Asian growth alone remained strong.