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Natural Selection – Thriving of the Informed

Within the well-established natural personal care markets of Western Europe and North...

Tough As Nails – Polishing Off Another High Growth Year

It was another tremendous year for nail polishes, with category sales up...

China Looking Inwards for Strength – An Opportunity for Global Lubricant Majors

As a logistical consequence of China’s vast exporting, manufacturing facilities tended to...

Impressions from International Salon and Spa Expo (ISSE)

Long Beach, CA, January 28-30, 2012 The vibe at ISSE was decidedly...

Acquiring Beauty – Future M&A Trends and Drivers Across the Personal Care Value Chain

While 2011 ended in uncertainty, Kline's Eric Vogelsberg sees the M&A environment...

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,...

Global lubricant consumption – Where are we going?

The economic rollercoaster ride of the past three years has generated a...

L’Oréal Acquires Clarisonic – A Logical Choice

The recent news of L’Oréal’s acquisition of Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., the...

Kline wins Agrow Award for Best Supporting Role

Last night at the Marriott Hotel in London there was a prestigious...

The Widening of the Panama Canal – The Potential Game Changer

Historically, the U.S. East Coast (Atlantic region), led by New York, dominated...

Traditional Beauty Retailers: Take a lesson from alternate channels.

Alternate retail channels are white hot in the beauty business, having grown...

Excipient Blends: the new frontier in oral pharmaceutical applications.

Excipients are the unsung heroes of the oral solid-dosage-form (OSDF) pharmaceutical industry....