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 the global and U.S. beauty market; it has deep pockets; and is quick to act on market trends. The firm is also reporting solid financial results against the backdrop of a tough economy, with its first three quarters of 2011 up 5.1% on a like-for-like basis. The acquisition will also help bolster L’Oréal’s position in skin care in the U.S., which is relatively weak compared to its global standing.Continue reading
Kline wins Agrow Award for Best Supporting Role
Last night at the Marriott Hotel in London there was a prestigious awards ceremony to honor corporate and individual excellence in the crop protection and production industry. Kline won the 2011 Agrow Award for ‘best supporting role’, i.e. best service provider to the industry. Our submission is attached. We were in good company, with Dow Chemical winning the award for the Best Novel Agricultural Biotechnology category.
This is great recognition of our positioning and offerings both on the KMC and KMR sides of our business, with many people contributing to our success. Well done, everyone! We’re now going to figure out how to leverage this to maximize our exposure in the industry.
The Widening of the Panama Canal – The Potential Game Changer
Historically, the U.S. East Coast (Atlantic region), led by New York, dominated trading activities with other nations. This makes sense as most of the trade those days was between Europe and the United States. With the emergence of the Asia-Pacific region (first with Japan and now China and the East Asian Tigers) the U.S. West Coast (Pacific region), led by Los Angeles and Long Beach, grew in importance. This certainly had an impact on the local economy in terms of growth in related industries such as shipping, trucking, railroad, and other such industries which resulted in the growth of marine engine oils, railroad engine oils, and HDMOs.Continue reading
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.
Sales of cosmetic and toiletry products through alternate channels have exploded over the last five years, fueling a 5.2% growth in direct sales that is outpacing the total market more than three-fold. While conventional person-to-person sales are declining gradually since 2005, multi-media driven channels have snapped up sales, with e-commerce growing by more than 26%, home shopping networks up nearly 20%, and infomercials posting just over 17% growth. This upward trend is expected to continue as mobile technologies, social media, and online deal-hunting converge to help bricks-and-mortar and direct sales-only retailers reach a wider, more diverse, and engaged audience.Continue reading
Excipient Blends: the new frontier in oral pharmaceutical applications.
Excipients are the unsung heroes of the oral solid-dosage-form (OSDF) pharmaceutical industry, seemingly content to remain out of the limelight and let the active ingredients take center stage. Now, a new breed of specially formulated blends could be just what the doctor ordered to help drug makers optimize production and potentially reduce the cost of producing life-saving medications.
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 and give the OSDF drugs we take every day their palpable size, texture, and flavor.Continue reading
While Asian Markets Hum, North American and European Markets Grind; Shell Remains the Global Lubricant Market Leader, According to Kline
Economic uncertainty continues to mitigate the North American and European lubricant markets while the Asian market has remained resilient, claiming some 43% of global demand, according to latest study Global Lubricants 2010: Market Analysis and Assessment by international consulting and research firm Kline and Company. “However, within the overall Asian market, it’s also important to distinguish what parts of the market are ’accessible’ and what parts are ’quality’ because this is the opportunity for IOCs in the emerging world,” notes Geeta Agashe, Vice President of Petroleum & Energy Practice at Kline.Continue reading
Global Lubricant Additives Market
According to Kline, estimated global finished lubricant consumption in 2010 was 34.6 million tones, with additive consumption accounting for 3.7 million tons valued at $10.3 billion. Within lubricant additives, dispersants, viscosity index-improving agents (VII) and detergents were the top three function classes accounting for 68% of total consumption. Other function classes analyzed include corrosion inhibitors, antiwear, emulsifiers, friction modifiers, antioxidants. Kline forecasts global lubricant additive consumption to grow at 3.2% per year to reach 4.3 billion tons by 2015, but warns that not all function classes will grow uniformly.Continue reading
Kline Presents at Beyond Beauty Paris
KLINE INVITES YOU TO
EUROPEAN SPA EXHIBITION & SUMMIT
&
NATURAL BEAUTY SUMMIT EUROPE
by BEYOND BEAUTY PARIS
Kline’s industry experts in association with Beyond Beauty’s European Spa and the Natural Beauty Summit have the pleasure to invite you to the following conferences:
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 comes together to meet and greet.
Sunday morning the PBA Symposium kicked off with a keynote address by Stedman Graham. I was a bit star struck the day earlier when I bumped into Stedman (yes, Oprah’s man!) while checking in to the hotel.Continue reading
Technology boom drives skin care device market growth
CosmeticsDesign.com USA caught up with Kline’s Karen Doskow recently in New York to discuss the skin care devices market and how it is projected to grow in the coming years.
Kline is publishing a report on the current market with findings showing that the market has grown by over 50 percent.
Industry expert Doskow explained how the accelerated growth of technology in the skin care market has made a big difference, particularly in this market.
The devices appear to a wide audience and a wide range of products, and have been utilised by market leaders such as Clarisonic and Procter & Gamble.
Doskow is the lead researcher of the upcoming report and told us of the main findings, with the report itself to be released shortly. More…
