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St. Ives Finds Tubes Pack Appeal
NEW YORK -- For St. Ives, a product's container has become as important as its contents.
The company, which pre
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CTFA at 100: Ample Reasons for Celebration
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- An air of quiet confidence characterized last week's Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance…
Beauty Firms Open up to Open-Sell Strategy
NEW YORK -- While mass market retailers and manufacturers are staffing drugstores with cosmeticians to build…
Beauty’s New Moves in the Sampling Game
NEW YORK -- A spritz and a swab are no longer enough.
While a trip to a department store cosmetics department…
Ultima II Back in Scent
NEW YORK -- Ultima II is flinging itself back into the women's fragrance market.
In September, the Revlon divis
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Conair Shifting its Focus in Hair Care
NEW YORK -- Conair Corp. is abandoning mainstream hair care marketing to powerhouses such as Procter & Gamble…
Bonjour Sportswear Says ‘Hello’ to Fragrance
NEW YORK -- The Bonjour Group is breaking into the mass market fragrance business -- with a prestige spin.
The…
Scented Bath Items Sweeten Mass Sales
NEW YORK -- While the mass fragrance market has been lackluster lately, scented products of a different sort…
Cover Girl Broadens its Coverage
NEW YORK -- When Cover Girl entered the market 35 years ago, it began with a single product: Cover Girl Clean…
Toiletries to Beef Up Muelhens Brands
NEW YORK -- Richard Barrie is trying to broaden the appeal of its newly acquired Muelhens fragrance brands by…
Sassoon Regroups For Added Punch
NEW YORK -- For years, Procter & Gamble's Vidal Sassoon hair care brand was known for the slogan, "If you…
Sun Line Dawns at Nautica
NEW YORK -- Nautica International will try to build on the outdoorsy image of its signature men's scent this…
Prescriptives’ Double Play
NEW YORK -- When Prescriptives launched its All Skins program in 1991, it doubled its foundation business…
Expanded Coty Shifts Into High Gear
NEW YORK -- Just one month after Coty absorbed Quintessence, its sister company, the fragrance powerhouse has…
Dana Seeking to Put Gloss in Lipstick Sales
NEW YORK -- Dana Perfumes is hoping to put some color into its pallid lipstick business.
Earlier this month, Da
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