Skin Care: A Beauty Spot in Barcelona – Nikola Matic on the Specialty Actives Market

Kline’s Nikola Matic, drawing upon many years of extensive and international market-research, will be at in-cosmetics Barcelona on April 17, 2012 where he’ll share timely specialty actives insights and trends gleaned from Kline’s recently published report Specialty Actives in Personal Care 2011: Multi-Regional Market Analysis and Opportunities.

L’Oréal Acquires Clarisonic – A Logical Choice

The recent news of L’Oréal’s acquisition of Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., the marketer of Clarisonic, comes as no surprise to us at Kline. L’Oréal has a long and solid history of growing its business by acquiring and developing dynamic brands… Matrix, Kiehl’s, Skinceuticals, and Essie, just to name a few. L’Oréal is a leader in [...]

Traditional Beauty Retailers: Take a lesson from alternate channels.

Alternate retail channels are white hot in the beauty business, having grown sales nearly $1 billion since 2005. Instead of trying to figure out how to compete, traditional bricks-and-mortar brands should take a page from the alternate channel playbook and leverage these new opportunities to reach customers at their new favorite place to shop: at home. (Read more…)

Excipient Blends: the new frontier in oral pharmaceutical applications.

Excipients are the unsung heroes of the oral solid-dosage-form (OSDF) pharmaceutical industry. Most consumers are completely unaware of the critical role excipients play in delivering the beneficial medicines millions rely on to fight diseases and stay healthy. Yet it is the fillers, binders, disintegrants, lubricants, and coatings that ensure the accurate, timed delivery of drugs required to safely maintain optimum active ingredient levels in our system.

With average growth forecast to exceed 4% through 2015, the excipients market for OSDF is expected to keep pace with the 6% growth on the pharmaceutical horizon… (Read more…)

WEBINAR Specialty Actives and Delivery Systems in Personal Care 2011: Europe Market Analysis and Opportunities

Join us for an insightful presentation focused on the European market for specialty actives and delivery systems in the personal care industry! We would like to invite you to hear Anna Ibbotson, Kline’s Industry Manager in the Chemicals & Materials practice, discuss current trends in the European market for specialty actives and delivery systems in [...]

WEBINAR – Specialty Actives and Delivery Systems in Personal Care 2011: Europe Market Analysis and Opportunities

WEBINAR INVITATION Specialty Actives and Delivery Systems in Personal Care 2011: Europe Market Analysis and Opportunities Join us for an insightful presentation focused on the European market for specialty actives and delivery systems in the personal care industry!

My visit to Cosmoprof North America 2011

Cosmoprof North America started out with a bang. My colleague Kristy Altenburg and I first hit TIGI’s “Candy Fixations” party where we enjoyed some yummy candy-inspired cocktails and left with goodie bags filled with TIGI’s latest sugarlicious launches (thanks TIGI!). We then headed over to the Professional Beauty Association (PBA)’s Get Together Party where everyone [...]

Live Summer Educational Series focusing on Personal Care, Home Care, and Healthcare

Join us for a series of LIVE EDUCATIONAL WEBINARS taking place in July! As we are nearing the completion of our most popular reports, we felt it would be a good time for us to share some of our findings with you. Therefore, we have scheduled a series of webinars for you to choose from. [...]

Kline’s HBA session “A Close Look at the Personal Care Market”.

Last Thursday I had the privilege of speaking at a session at the HBA called “A Close Look at the Personal Care Market”. I kicked off the session by sharing some highlights and data from our recently-published market research studies. I focused on the latest trends and developments which have helped the industry to recently [...]

Mexico’s Economic Growth Fuels Expansion in Local Biocide Market

Following a year of positive GDP growth, Mexico has seen a favorable expansion in its biocides business. Gaining from increased consumption in key end-use market applications such as paints and coatings, latex emulsions, and cosmetics and toiletries, among others, the biocide market has started recovering after the economic recession and reached nearly 18,000 tonnes in [...]

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