ITALY’S BEAUTY MARKET RETURNS TO GROWTH

The beauty and personal care (BPC) market in Italy ended 2015 on a positive note, recording marginal growth in market sales, production and exports, according to a December 2015 report ‘Trends and Investments in the Cosmetics Sector’, released by the national cosmetics trade association, Associazione Italiana delle Imprese Cosmetiche (Cosmetica Italia). Compared to 2014, the report reveals that BPC sales in the domestic market grew by almost one percentage point in 2015 compared to 2014, reaching EUR6.05 billion (USD6.5 billion), and 2015 closed with the ...


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