Review of 2011

• Unilever completes Sara Lee Personal Care & European Laundry acquisition
• Coty adds popular Chinese brands to its skin care portfolio
• Beiersdorf will withdraw from decorative cosmetics
• The cosmetics market in Germany 2010: decorative cosmetics, female fragrances, antiperspirants and male cosmetics increase; optimistic prospects for 2011
• Beiersdorf sells Juvena and Marlies Möller cosmetics brands to Troll Cosmetics
• Coty Inc. acquires OPI Products Inc.
• Coty Inc. takes over cosmetics company philosophy inc.
• The Italian cosmetics market grew by +5.2% in 2010.
• P&G wants to reach 5 billion customers until the end of its financial year 2015/2016. With currently 4.2 billion customers P&G reports sales of Euro 79 billion.

February 2011:

• Germany´s biggest drugstore chain Schlecker creates new management level below owning family: dual leadership Rusch (COO) and Sagur (CFO)
• German perfumery chain Douglas sells its shops in Russia
• German drugstore chain Rossmann cooperates with internet pharmacy DocMorris by displaying its catalogue in its 1,600 shops.
• The Italian glassmaker Zignago Vetro has recently purchased around 79% of Polish Huta Szkla Czechy (HSC).
• Over the past 17 years the M·A·C AIDS Fund has raised more than USD 218 million for HIV/AIDS related charities solely through the sales of M·A·C VIVA GLAM products.
• Pola Orbis Holdings Inc., one of the biggest Japanese cosmetics companies founded in 1929, has signed an agreement to acquire H2O Plus, LLC.

March / April 2011:

• French perfumeries report increasing sales in 2010
• Berkshire Partners and Rhône to Invest in Coty Inc.
• Avon announces comprehensive management realignments
• LVMH reports 19% increase in sales for 2010, exceeding the 20 billion Euro mark for the first time; cosmetics grew 12%
• Mintel Beauty Innovation reveals "down to Earth" as key trend to impact beauty industry in 2011
• The Body Shop now sells at Sephora
• Azelis to acquire S&D Group Ltd, UK
• The Bulgari family joins forces with LVMH and transfers its majority shareholding in Bulgari S.p.A.
• Announced in February 2011 the Pochet Group, through ist subsidiary Qualipac, has acquired 100% of Lisi Cosmetics.
• German drugstore chain Müller, Ulm, took over Austria perfumery chain "Le Duigou" by 100%.

May / June 2011:

• Jean-Paul Agon officially takes over as CEO from L´Oréal
• Unilever sells Sanex to Colgate-Palmolive
• Beiersdorf plans to discontinue production in Baden-Baden
• Hallstar acquires Biochemica
• Kneipp acquires French natural cosmetics manufacturer Pierre Cattier
• Pantene Announces First Shipment of Innovative More Sustainable Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic
• At Sotheby´s portraits of cosmetics icon Helena Rubinstein will auctioned in May and October 2011. Helena Rubinstein, born 1870 in Poland, opened her first beauty salon in 1902 and was also well-known as patron of the arts.
• The hair care brand Sexy hair Concepts is sold to US private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners.
• Sozio, Inc. informed that as of May 11, 2011, the company has completed the acquisition of Alpine Aromatics.
• Spanish-based group Puig, has acquired Laboratoires Dermatologiques d’Uriage, a French laboratory for dermo-cosmetics.
• French group Ileos, a major player in packaging for the beauty & health industry, just acquired a majority stake in the Mappel company, a leader in contract filling and samples for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry in Brazil.

July / August 2011:

• PZ Cussons appoints Michelle Feeny as CEO of its newly formed beauty division
• Marbert Holding AG makes application for insolvency
• Markus Grefer takes over as new GM for PUIG Germany and Austria
• BayernLB Private Equity now the majority shareholder of REBHAN cosmetics packaging company
• Walgreens to acquire online retailer drugstore.com, inc. for USD 409 million
• LVMH Moët Hennessy acquires a controlling stake in NUDE Skincare
• Avon, the worldwide leading direct selling company for cosmetics, has opened a new R&D centre in Shanghai
• Second largest German drugstore chain "dm" cooperates with Amazon.
• Through an investment company LVMH acquired 25% of the Indian retail company Genesis Luxury Fashion.

September 2011:

• Dr. Helmut Drees takes over SPA & Medical Division/Training at Babor as well
• Markus Pinger responsible for brands & supply chain at Beiersdorf has left the company
• Univar Acquires Brazilian Distributor Arinos
• TOM FORD introduces his first Cosmetics Collection
• Mens shirts get fragrant – in Japan at least
• Every third women (35%) and 10% of men in industrialised countries colour their hair.
• Between 2003 and 2010, the value of retailing in Brazil grew by 59% at constant US dollar prices. regularly.
• Around 1,600 health food shops exist in Germany and Austria.
• In France the ratio of buyers of natural cosmetics increased from 7% to 25% between 2007 to 2010.

October 2011:

• 125 years Avon: an idea goes round the world. Largest direct sales company for cosmetics in the world celebrates its birthday
• Court ruling: L´Oréals Liliane Bettencourt will be put under tutelage
• Jakob Sigurdsson appointed new CEO of Promens
• Snail Cream…The Latest sensation in Korea
• Generation change at Beiersdorf: Heidenreich to succeed Quaas as CEO in April 2012
• German Straub Cosmetics buys trade mark rights of the brand Marbert
• To enhance the expansion of I Coloniali Italian Perfume Holding has signed a joint venture agreement with the founder of personal care brand Aquolina, Stefano Pesce.
• Lansinoh Laboratories, Inc. has acquired the Earth Friendly Baby brand of natural personal care products from HealthQuest.
• The founder and inventor of the "soap without soap" Dr. med. Heinz Maurer, owner of cosmetics company Sebapharma GmbH & Co.KG headquartered in Boppard, Germany, has celebrated his 90ths birthday on October 2011, 11.
• New Jersey headquartered Topline Products, a company specialised in cosmetics packaging, has announced the acquisition of Cosworld-Primapack, a fully owned subsidiary of the Cosfibel Group.

November 2011:

• Fernando J. Acosta from Unilver Joins Avon as President, Latin America
• Business year 2010/2011: German drug store chain „dm“ sales exceed EUR 6 billion mark in Europe
• 20 Years of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
• Naturex acquires Burgundy Botanical Extracts
• MÄURER & WIRTZ acquires BALDESSARINI fragrance business from P&G
• Cosmetic prestige products in France rose by 1.2% in value during the first half of the year.
• Toronto based Crystal Claire Cosmetics specialized in cosmetic formulation and full service took over a minority stake in Italian Kosmoda.
• On Nov. 30, 2011, Japanese Pola Orbis Holdings Inc has purchased 100% of the shares of Australia-based Jurlique International Pty.
• Cosmetics manufacturing and filling company ACP, based in Montreuil-Bellay, has acquired the company Sicofor located in Marboué.

December 2011:

• The cosmetics market in Germany 2011: personal care sales increase in general - natural cosmetics grow by 8.9%; optimistic prospects for 2012
• Amway announced the appointment of Maud Pansing to VP of its global beauty business. Before joining Amway, Pansing spent 18 years in brand and retail marketing and management at the Estée Lauder Companies.
• The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Deeply Mourns the Death of Evelyn H. Lauder
• Coty Inc. announces appointment of Bart Becht as chairman of the board
• William Koeberle, CEO of the Marionnaud Group since January 2008, took over also direct responsibility for Marionnaud France.
• Masaki Douzono becomes new president of Shiseido Germany
• Count von Faber-Castell honoured with Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• German cosmetics company Straub GmbH takes over majority of Beauty Brands International GmbH
• After 40 years, Andy Giancamilli, CEO of Katz Group Canada will be retiring as of February 2, 2012.
• Rochelle Bloom, president of the Fragrance Foundation in New York has said she will retire at the end of this year, after nine years with the company.
• Fair trade: increasingly more extracts in cosmetics now
• L´Oréal Acquires Clarisonic Maker Pacific Bioscience Laboratories
• Global sales of natural and organic beauty products are projected to reach USD 9 billion this year and 14 billion in 2015, according to a new research by Organic Monitor.
• Unilever to acquire 82% of leading Russian beauty company Kalina