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INDIA’S fast growing online retail sector is providing a ready platform for purveyors of counterfeit cosmetic products, an international conference on ‘Illicit Trade Threat to National Security & Economy’ has been told.

Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) on Friday (January 15) in New Delhi, the conference brought together international security and enforcement officials, trademark professionals, online retailers and major brand owners who tried to synchronise their strategies in the fight against such illicit trades.…

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).…

It has taken more than half a decade for the cosmetics markets of eastern Europe to finally shrug off a long-running period stagnation that has characterised the regional market. Two underlying features – the financial crisis of 2008 and the completion of multinational takeovers in the noughties that saturated these post-communist markets – lay behind the extended period of slow, low or non-existent growth.…

The cosmetics industry and market in Croatia is starting to benefit from the country’s nascent economic recovery, although it is still facing a number of challenges. The economy in Croatia, which joined the European Union (EU) in 2013, was forecast by the World Bank to grow by 1% in 2015, following six years of recession.…

India’s market for male grooming products will grow at an annual rate of 22% in the next five years, with social pressure for men to look good increasing, along with rising per capita income and rapid urbanization. So says ‘Men’s Grooming Market in India 2015-2020’, a report by Research and Markets, released in September (2015).…

Chinese consumers are buying more of their cosmetics online on China’s top two ecommerce sites Tmall.com and JD.com and also specialist sites Lefung.com, Tiantian.com and Jumei.com, forcing bricks-and-mortar own brand retailers to rethink their strategy. Market leading retailer – AS Watson, a Hong Kong-based chain which operates 14,000 stores in greater China and worldwide and which sells a wide range of Watson’s own brand personal care products, has also been adjusting to compete.…

PERSONAL care products expert are divided on the likely impact on the babycare and pregnancy market in China of the October decision by the Communist Party of China to replace the country’s 35-year-old one-child policy with a two-child policy.

The move effectively gives 90 million couples throughout the country the right to raise a second child, according to an estimation by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China.…

A new laboratory will help a joint research partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU) aiming to harmonize technology and standards supporting electrified transport on both sides of the Atlantic by the time plug-in vehicles enter the mainstream.…

NEWLY trained medical graduates are now receiving degrees for studies completed within Mauritania, following an expansion of medicine higher education in this impoverished north-western Africa and largely desert country.

Mauritania has few doctors. Its 3.89 million people is served by just 0.12 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, according to 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) executive, the European Commission could fine automakers up to EUR30,000 per vehicle if found cheating on emissions or other tests under reformed type approval rules proposed on Wednesday (January 27). The proposals to revamp the EU’s type approval system aim to prevent a repeat of the Volkswagen ‘dieselgate’ scandal that have revealed major holes in EU regulatory oversight on vehicle performance, which is largely based on national government agencies among the EU’s 28 member states.…