TNT Global Manufacturing dresses Frédéric Malle

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December 7, 2018

Sleek, black and contemporary. This is the packaging TNT Global Manufacturing has designed for the latest spray collection from Frédéric Malle, Estée Lauder Group.
Behind this sobriety lies the know-how and expertise required to create a technically, aesthetically and ergonomically flawless package.
This multi-material spray bottle - PETg*, PP*, Aluminum - features pad printing in the recessed logo on the cap, 3-color screen printing on a small area of the collar, and sharp angles for the matte black anodized aluminum that makes it up. The design has been optimized for final assembly of the base by a simple snap-fit operated by the packer.
Closure is based on a magnetizing system soft clicbetween cap and body. The ballasting of the cap and base, the studied cushioning of the bottle in the body and the contrast between matte black and gloss reflect the nobility of the product, for a complete sensory experience.

*PETg: Glycolized polyethylene terephthalate; PP: Polypropylene

An application to discover the perfume and cosmetics industry

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Kristel Milet

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December 5, 2018

The perfumery and cosmetics industry is booming, recruiting and offering numerous job opportunities: 15,000 employees were hired in 2017 ... 50,000 jobs are expected to be created by 2030! However, the variety of jobs in this sector is sometimes misunderstood, particularly in the industrial field: production, manufacturing, quality, patents, chemistry, digital ...

Cosmetic Valley has therefore decided to reach out to secondary school pupils, students and young adults, and offer them a mobile application that will enable them to discover the perfumery and cosmetics professions in a fun way, based on an enhanced booklet, a website and various multimedia tools.

Consisting of an enhanced booklet, a mobile application and a web-based information platform, Cosmetic Experience is designed to introduce middle and high school students, as well as young adults seeking employment or training, to the perfumery-cosmetics industry through fun and games. The idea is to slide young people into the world of perfumery and cosmetics, and enable them to discover this innovative industry and its professions through games and educational activities: learning and understanding while having fun, with challenges, figures, success stories, flagship products, and discovery of the value chain, from product design to points of sale.

Diam boosts retail innovation

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Kristel Milet

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December 3, 2018

At a time when the world of retail is being transformed in the name of the "famous" customer journey, Paris is seeing the birth of a new initiative in support of young companies in the sector. Paris & Co, the economic development and innovation agency, is bringing together major players around a project dedicated to the "omnichannel customer experience: retail & services". The Diam group is committed to this adventure, whose ambition echoes its values and strategy!
The aim of this program is to accelerate the development of young companies and foster collaboration with the platform's partners (AG2R La Mondiale, Bouygues Telecom, Diam, FDJ, Hammerson, L'Oréal). Within this framework, Diam has helped to define the operational and strategic challenges in terms of omnichannel customer experience, and to identify the themes involved:

Towards personalized anticipation: data & flow analysis, personalized prediction, supply chain performance...
Towards an enhanced customer experience: customer journey, omnichannel customer path, traffic generation, new branch & store experiences...
Towards a committed customer: loyalty, commitment, repeat business, ongoing satisfaction, active and responsible consumer...

Following a call for applications (from October 30 to November 30), the first class of startups from the ecosystem will benefit from a dedicated support program from February 2019.

Diam at the heart of its customers' issues, on omnichannel consumer experiences

The world of retail is undergoing profound change, with consumers who are hyper-connected, more aware, more committed and more responsible than ever. "In this context, the physical point of sale remains, or is once again becoming, a fundamental meeting point between a Brand (a House) and its consumer, offering much more than a purchasing journey: a life journey," explains Françoise Raoul-Duval, Managing Director of the Diam Group." Our Group observes, detects, analyzes..., and acts as an ideas laboratory before conceiving a project, from the needs of Brands and retailers, to the design and realization of retail spaces. This expertise is part of a 100 % full-service approach.
With its 2,300 employees in 24 countries, Diam offers a wide range of retail and merchandising solutions. With a strong, responsible commitment to customer satisfaction, Diam's teams build THE encounter between a brand and its consumer.

Applications to be submitted online (by November 30) on :

https://candidatures.incubateurs.parisandco.com/fr/challenges/appel-a-candidatures-experience-client-omnicanale-2018-2019

Lessonia starts its second production site dedicated to masks

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Kristel Milet

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November 28, 2018

Four years ago, Lessonia decided to capitalize on the development of the mask market in Europe and the United States. The company was right. To address the real emergence of this market, it decided to invest in R&D around masks and in building a high-performance production tool that meets European standards.
In October 2017, Lessonia broke ground on its new factory on land adjoining the historic site. A year later the company is able to start up its new site on 8,000 m2 and two floors, mostly dedicated to mask impregnation and packaging.
With this second plant, Lessonia takes up the position of European leader in a rapidly expanding market. Lessonia offers brands wishing to develop in this market a tool with high production potential, designed to meet high hygiene standards.

A genuine strategy focused on Europe and North America

To accompany the emergence of the mask market in Europe and North America, Lessonia has opted for a strategy focused on the needs of the Western market.

Products and raw materials sourced in Europe
All mask components must be traceable. To meet this challenge, Lessonia is developing production facilities in Europe to guarantee the quality of the materials used, and to meet the most demanding requirements of clients and their toxicologists.

Skin-friendly, EU-compliant 100% formulas
The masks must offer consumers immediate satisfaction and excellent comfort of use. Lessonia's success is based on skin-friendly, preservative-free 100% impregnation serum manufacturing and production technology. Lessonia now offers natural 100% "Milky Serum" (ingredients of natural origin).

Automation-based production technology adapted to Europe
Korean and Chinese manufacturing models are based on several intermediaries (mask cutting, bag making, packaging) requiring numerous manual interventions. Lessonia has turned to automation, an essential method for achieving competitive production costs and guaranteeing complete transparency and traceability.

Packitoo accelerates its development with a €500,000 fundraising

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Kristel Milet

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November 22, 2018

Less than a year and a half after its creation, Packitoo finalizes its first round of financing to allow it to continue its disruption of the packaging market.
This first round of financing of 500,000 euros is made with Adour Business Angels (ABA), Nouvelle Aquitaine Co-Investissement (NACO), BPI France and private investors.

Founded in July 2017 by Corinne Loustalet and Thomas Othax, Packitoo is the first collaborative platform dedicated to the development, purchase and sale of custom packaging. Packitoo's web application connects client companies' packaging projects to the best suppliers around the world. Through its digital services and human support, Packitoo ensures time savings, cost optimization and better collaboration between the packaging industry.
After 16 months of existence, Packitoo has a turnover of 120,000 euros, more than 250 client companies, 200 packaging suppliers and 10 employees (packaging experts, developers, data scientists, sales representatives, etc.) united around the same project and sharing the same ambitions: to enhance the value of the packaging industry by making it more accessible and therefore more efficient.

To achieve this goal, Packitoo's teams leverage hundreds of thousands of packaging industry data through their own machine learning algorithms to better assist client companies in outlining their technical projects, matching them to the right industrial capabilities, and also instantly predicting custom packaging prices to frame the client-supplier relationship from the start.
Packitoo's customers are startups and SMEs that consume packaging. An SME with a turnover between 2 and 10 millions buys between 50 000 and 1 000 000€ of packaging per year depending on the sector of activity. However, they do not necessarily have packaging specialists or buyers dedicated to complex products such as custom packaging. These are the actors for whom Packitoo has the greatest added value.
Packitoo's customers are packaging suppliers from all over the world, from the smallest SME to the largest group, eager to win new markets via the web as a complement to their traditional sales forces.

The packaging market is the 8th largest industry in the world and a sector estimated to be worth more than $1 trillion by 2020. On a national scale, French companies purchased nearly €30 billion worth of packaging in 2017 while the French packaging industry realized €23 billion that same year.

This first round of funding will allow Packitoo to continue the technological development of the predictive models used by the application and to accelerate its recruitment with the arrival in September of a marketing director and new data scientists.

"Packitoo has its roots in the paquito, a Basque collective dance where complete strangers dance together, carry each other and show solidarity. Packitoo aims to deploy all the necessary tools to recreate the link in this industry where the actors have a lot of trouble understanding each other. However, they must do so for obvious economic reasons, but perhaps more importantly, to develop tomorrow's responsible packaging together, for the good of our planet," says Thomas Othax, CEO of Packitoo.

MS Swiss Cosmetics launches a line of active makeup

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Kristel Milet

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November 20, 2018

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True to its philosophy of celebrating women's beauty through technical skincare, MS Swiss Cosmetics is launching an active make-up range that adds color to the benefits of skincare. The new Color & Care offer is made up of 4 sensorial make-up textures, designed with specific active ingredients of natural origin, to care for and enhance the epidermis' ecosystem. It is formulated to reveal the beauty and uniqueness of women.

Glacier Color Coach is a primer designed for city dwellers looking for skincare products that attenuate minor skin imperfections while moisturizing, fighting oxidation and pollution, and sublimating the epidermis. This formula contains the 4 key active ingredients of the Glacier skincare range: Titlis Swiss glacier water, red snow algae powder and a ginseng-apple-peach-wheat-thorn complex. Available in 3 shades, each with a specific indication, Color Coach provides a transparent, natural touch for long-lasting make-up.

Alpine Flower CCC Foundation is designed for young skin looking for a flawless complexion, while fighting pollution. Its main active ingredients are a complex of 4 plants, a Biotechnological marine ingredient, a biopolymer extract of red algae and tara and a sugar extract. This long-lasting, full-coverage foundation soothes and regenerates the skin, leaving it breathable. Available in 3 shades, Concentré Couvrance Contrôlée (CCC Foundation) completes the Alpine Flower skincare line.

HYAL-X3 Coverless Foundation and HYAL-X3 Fantastic Concealer complete the Skin Design skincare line, designed in the spirit of dermo-cosmetic injections. Their common ingredient is the HYAL-X3 complex, with its moisturizing, anti-aging and moisturizing properties. The HYAL-X3 Coverless Foundation formula also contains Buddleja officinalis (butterfly tree) and Wu-zhu-yu extract. This E/Si fluid emulsion is a dermo-cosmetic nude foundation, developed according to the No make-up Make-up" concept. HYAL-X3 Fantastic Concealer effectively covers dark circles while targeting their underlying causes, thanks to the Tetra peptides it contains and subject to continuous application.

Biocyte opens its capital

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Kristel Milet

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November 16, 2018

Philippe Bruneau and Frédéric Levy, the founders of Biocyte, are among the pioneers of the nutricosmetics market and today of nutrilongevity. Since 2006, they have been committed to the three main areas of anti-aging: beauty, slimming and longevity. The company's strategic positioning is based on a complete range of 150 products, the result of a scientific approach to permanent innovation, which is the company's DNA. The sourcing and selection of new ingredients as well as the definition of the best galenic form are the basis of this innovation. Biocyte has become a reference brand - 8 years of awards, including the Victoires de la beauté - through its differentiation strategy based, among other things, on the quality of active ingredients for perfect product effectiveness, validated by clinical tests.

To support the very strong growth of recent years, +50% in 2018 including 35% internationally, for an expected turnover of €20M, Philippe Bruneau and Frédéric Levy have chosen to open their capital in a minority way to regional financial investors.

Biocyte's founders were attracted by the regional investors Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Investissement, managed by Turenne Capital, and Sofipaca, and their ability to support the next steps in the company's development.

Now dedicated to Venture Capital but also to Private Equity (with an envelope of €80 million for tickets ranging from €200 to €2,000,000), Région Sud Investissement, the investment fund of the Southern Region managed by Turenne Capital, financed by ERDF funds (European Regional Development Funds), is thus carrying out its first development capital operation with Biocyte.

With more than 40 employees and leading regional, national and international partners, as well as financial investors, Biocyte now has the means to accelerate its development and confirm its leadership position.

Philippe Bruneau and Frédéric Lévy, President and CEO, Biocyte, explain: "We wanted to open our capital to finance the development of Biocyte Laboratory. The PACA region appeared to us as the ideal partner. Sofipaca and Turenne Capital, two solid local players, had the best understanding of our international growth objectives. Our mutual understanding and their willingness to support the dynamism of a local company's activity, confirmed our choice.

Marie Desportes, Managing Partner, Turenne Capital, added: "As pioneers in the food supplement industry, Biocyte's management team has succeeded in conquering the nutricosmetics market thanks to a high-quality, differentiated offering. We are proud to take part in Biocyte's development and to accompany the company in its growth.

Alexandre Flageul, Managing Director, Sofipaca, said: "We were impressed by Biocyte's track record of growth, profitability, international development, product innovation, etc. We are delighted to be able to support its shareholder managers in their project to develop this brand.

A holographic tube for L'Occitane's Cerisier Irisé Hand Cream

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Kristel Milet

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November 12, 2018

L'Occitane offers a visual and poetic experience with its holographic tube of Cerisier Irisé Hand Cream, which completes the brand's range of skincare products.
The plastic-laminated tube offers optimum protection for its fresh, floral formula. Its small format (30ml) is easy to carry for a moisturizing break at any time of day.
For this tube of hand cream, L'Occitane chose the holographic cold stamping effect proposed by Albéa. The tube was printed with 4 flexographic colors. The decoration is completed by a cold stamping effect that draws the delicate cherry blossoms. The dazzling pink octagonal cap evokes gourmandise and guarantees easy opening.
The holographic decoration effect belongs to the Fancy Déco family and is available on Albéa's laminated tubes. These are manufactured and assembled in Europe.

Fancy Déco decorations - for laminated tubes - have been designed to awaken consumers' senses right from their first contact with the packaging at point-of-sale. The Holographic Foil material is in line with the metallic trend, with a tube featuring iridescent effects. The 3D Varnish embossed finish and Soft Touch treatment complete the offer, providing a surprising relief effect and a velvety peach-skin effect respectively. The packaging expresses the softness of the formula and offers consumers a sensorial experience in store.

Créations & Parfums acquires Floressence

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Kristel Milet

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November 9, 2018

Créations & Parfums announces the acquisition of Floressence with Elixens SA, since October 4.

Floressence and Créations & Parfums, both located in Saint Cézaire sur Siagne (06), are geographically close to each other in terms of size and profitability. This takeover will enable the new Group to form a coherent whole, of significant size in the world of perfumery, and the geographical proximity will facilitate osmosis between the teams. Floressence also benefits from a land reserve opening up prospects for industrial expansion.
Floressence's international positions, notably in Russia, Europe and Asia, complement those of Créations & Parfums, which is more focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The customer portfolios of these two companies in different regions should also strengthen the new Group's position in these highly competitive markets.
The purchaser takes over all Floressence staff, and the two entities, Floressence and Créations & Parfums, remain distinct.
The new group sees this takeover as an opportunity to expand its fragrance composition business. Créations & Parfums has enjoyed double-digit growth over the last five years. It was therefore imperative to strengthen its development capacities and industrial facilities. The newly-formed entity is targeting sales of €40 million in the medium term.

GM Group launches a new line of hospitality products designed with Courrèges

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Kristel Milet

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November 7, 2018

The GM Group, an international player in the hotel hospitality sector, unveils a collaboration with French fashion house Courrèges. The result is a new range of hospitality products to be distributed in luxury establishments.
André Courrèges founded his own fashion house in 1961 and quickly became a benchmark in the 1960s fashion landscape thanks to his visionary conception of the modern woman. Inspired by futuristic shapes and materials, his trapeze dresses, mini-skirts and white ankle boots are now iconic pieces.
Courrèges is also a line of perfumes, conceived with the same innovative spirit. Acidic and aromatic, Eau de Courrèges reflects the freedom and audacity the designer wanted to see in women.
In collaboration with the GM Group, Courrèges has launched an exclusive new line of hospitality products, adding to the wide variety of ranges already offered by the Group.

Laurent Marchand, President of GM Group, says: "Courrèges is an iconic brand that has been reinventing fashion internationally since the 1960s with its elegance, freshness and liberating vision. Our new line embodies this spirit, and we are delighted to be able to share with our hotel customers a set of Courrèges hospitality products inspired by the Eau de Courrèges fragrance."

Aromatic, fresh and invigorating, the fragrance combines top notes of bergamot and lime; heart notes of lemon, lily of the valley, mint and absinthe; and base notes of patchouli, vetiver and moss. The bold, free-spirited olfactory choices of this hotel line fully embody the innovative, creative spirit of Courrèges, which places its history at the heart of its fragrances.
The line comprises four 32 ml bottles, including shower gel, body lotion, shampoo and conditioner, as well as a 35 g allegro soap and 25 g cardboard box, elegantly presented on a stand with the brand's characteristic functional design. The box boasts elegant, modern packaging, true to the Courrèges style.
Thanks to the GM Group's network of distributors, the new Courrèges line will be available in four- and five-star hotels worldwide.

Industries CosmétiquesThe complete watch in cosmetic perfumery

Industries CosmétiquesThe complete watch in cosmetic perfumery

Industries CosmétiquesThe complete watch in cosmetic perfumery

TNT Global Manufacturing dresses Frédéric Malle

An application to discover the perfume and cosmetics industry

Diam boosts retail innovation

Lessonia starts its second production site dedicated to masks

Packitoo accelerates its development with a €500,000 fundraising

MS Swiss Cosmetics launches a line of active makeup

Biocyte opens its capital

A holographic tube for L'Occitane's Cerisier Irisé Hand Cream

Créations & Parfums acquires Floressence

GM Group launches a new line of hospitality products designed with Courrèges

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