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Beer, cars and Kindles? With it’s latest advertisements airing during the Super Bowl and a marketing budget that exceeded $8B last year, Amazon just joined the ranks of mega-marketers like P&G and Unilever! Expect to see more Amazon offerings alongside those of your favorite personal care companies (or cars or beer).
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And you thought mom jeans were the worst trend to return to popularity…2019 just witnessed the return of the mullet. Led by K-pop idols who are adding embellishments like braids and tags, the “party in the back” is even crazier now. Will hair care companies take note?
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What’s new about sustainable packaging? Just ask Loop Industries, the company that’s partnering with numerous large CPGs to create sustainable packaging solutions like refillable stainless steel deodorant sticks that last up to 8 years. Great for the planet, slightly less awesome for TSA
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The personalization trend just met the vending machine…BASF and B2B Cosmetics’ latest technology allows users to create their own individualized personal care products which are then dispensed into a capsule selected by the user. No news yet on where we can expect to see the machines, but we’re guessing it won’t be a gas station!
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Don’t let it’s relatively modest sales fool you…Drunk Elephant will command a ten figure deal when it sells later this year. Who’s in the market? Given the velocity of DE’s sales and the height of it’s Instagram fame, only major contenders need apply…
Knowde Take: A multi-channel approach is critical to engaging today’s customers so it’s no surprise that Unilever is working on building a cross-media measurement model to better gauge their campaigns’ overall performance. Efficient, smart and waaay past the capabilities of most companies who collect (then sit on) big data. (more…)
Knowde Take: Fashionable laundry detergent from Unilever? Lifestyle home-cleaning company, Laundress, was just acquired for $100M. Read on to learn why this confluence of middle and high end makes sense. (more…)
Knowde Take: While personal care brands can come and go in the trend-based and fiercely competitive market of today, creative genius will always prevail. A huge thank you to Jean Ann Ford and Brandon Truaxe whose contributions to personal care leave lasting legacies in the forms of their companies: Benefit and Deciem. (more…)
Knowde Take: Green, sustainable and innovative…what’s not to love? Nouryon’s 3rd annual Imagine Chemistry challenge brings together start ups, scaleups and other partners like personal care powerhouse, Unilever, in an effort to accelerate innovation and create value for customers. Interested in entering the challenge? Don your thinking caps and bring your small particle solutions to the table. You’ve got until March 8th!
Through Imagine Chemistry, Nouryon works with startups, scaleups and other partners to advance sustainable innovation. Winners work with Nouryon as equal partners to bring their ideas to market.
Knowde Take: In case you’re wondering if millennials have truly taken over… luxury cosmetics company, L’Occitane International SA, recently acquired Elemis, one of the generation’s skin care favorites, in an effort to increase their presence in the natural, high-end product market. Oh…and if anyone cares, Gen X is a fan as well
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Hong Kong-listed L’Occitane agreed to buy Elemis from Steiner Leisure Ltd., a portfolio company of private equity firm L Catterton that focuses on consumer investments. The deal is the latest in a spate of acquisitions of high-end skincare brands, with demand for natural beauty products on the rise in Asia — a trend that has also lifted cosmetics giant L’Oreal SA.