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Schwan Cosmetics: a centenarian in top shape! 
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Schwan Cosmetics: a centenarian in top shape! 

Schwan Cosmetics will celebrate its centennial next year. During the last fiscal year spanning 2024 and 2025, the Group’s global revenue exceeded 369 million euros, even posting...

Cosmed: From Twelve Members to Over a Thousand in 25 Years!
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Cosmed: From Twelve Members to Over a Thousand in 25 Years!

With over a thousand members, Cosmed has become the largest professional cosmetics organization in France—and indeed in Europe—over the past twenty-five years. The total revenue...

Pennelli Faro: mastery through foresight!
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Pennelli Faro: mastery through foresight!

The past two years have been a whirlwind for Pennelli Faro, the Italian firm specializing in the manufacture of cosmetic brushes and applicators for the beauty industry. It has...

Four priorities for Art Cosmetics in 2026… “innovation, digitalization of processes, sustainability, and global expansion!”
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Four priorities for Art Cosmetics in 2026… “innovation, digitalization of processes, sustainability, and global expansion!”

Founded in the early 1990s near Milan with a specialty in lipstick manufacturing, Art Cosmetics—which today employs more than 700 people (10% of whom are dedicated to R&D)...

Fiabila: A French Success Story!
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Fiabila: A French Success Story!

In December 2023, the Apheon investment fund began exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in Fiabila. On March 1, 2024, Filippo Manucci (*) is appointed CEO of the...

iTiT Cosmetics: 15 years already and a new factory!
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iTiT Cosmetics: 15 years already and a new factory!

iTiT Cosmetics has made impressive progress over the past fifteen years. This Italian company, based in Cantù just a few kilometers from Lake Como, specializes in manufacturing...

Exclusive: House of Intercos 2026 - Energy and Passion!
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Exclusive: House of Intercos 2026 - Energy and Passion!

The showroom, which the Intercos teams rebuild every year at the Group’s headquarters, remains one of the largest (if not the largest) annual showcases of global trends in the...

Paper, cardboard, and cellulose as alternatives…? Don’t even think about it!
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Paper, cardboard, and cellulose as alternatives…? Don’t even think about it!

All current—and especially future—packaging applications that use wood and cellulose-based materials depend above all on the availability of a fundamental resource: cellulose...

Bertrand Lasserre, Thépenier Pharma & Cosmetics: “We are experts in ‘Safe Beauty’!”
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Bertrand Lasserre, Thépenier Pharma & Cosmetics: “We are experts in ‘Safe Beauty’!”

Founded in 1964, Thépenier Pharma & Cosmetics (TP&C) is a French OEM/ODM manufacturer (also a pharmaceutical CDMO) specializing in liquid, semi-solid (paste-like), and...

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Cosmoprof… still a must-attend event!

Jean-Yves Bourgeois

The Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna trade show officially kicked off its 57th edition at the end of March. With 3,104 exhibitors from 68 countries representing over 10,000 brands, the show was as impressive as ever, and the organizers reported that...