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THE MARKET for perfume and other scents in Asia is developing fast in most of the continent, especially in emerging markets, where consumers are using their new purchasing power to explore new tastes and brands.
To some extent, perfume has been lagging behind colour cosmetics and skincare, which have been targeted by the bigger brands as products likely to be regarded as affordable luxuries in the masstige market segments.…

WHEN American personal care product giant Johnson & Johnson opened its shared-services centre in Prague during 2006, it employed 12 people and provided only in-group procure-to-pay services. Currently this Johnson & Johnson finance centre is the largest of the five centres the company operates worldwide in terms of staff numbers as well as the scope of services it provides to internal business partners.…

THE INDIAN cosmetics market has been growing consistently at around 15% annually, and given the country’s large and growing population, much of which still spends very little on cosmetics, long term growth seems assured. This is the assessment of Technopak, a consultancy firm based in Gurgaon, near New Delhi.…

China’s paint and coatings industry is feeling the squeeze as economic growth slows, infrastructure investment is scaled back, and competition between local and overseas players intensifies.

Consulting firm Frost & Sullivan estimates the annual compound growth rate of the sector’s market value in China will slow to less than 10% this year, having regularly notched up double-digit growth rates prior to 2013.  …

Extreme weather events in 2013 were plentiful in the Asia-Pacific region – increasing demand for high performance coatings. Typhoons and cyclones brought devastation to parts of the central Philippines with typhoon Haiyan, while India was hit by Phailin, the second strongest tropical cyclone to strike the country since accurate meteorological records began.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) confectionery sector was one of Europe’s major export earners in 2013, with the latest EU trade data showing that Euro EUR3.6 billion’s worth of chocolate, confectionery and ice cream was sold outside the EU last year.

Overseas chocolate sales were particularly impressive, rising 8.2% year-on year, rising to EUR31 million in 2013.…

THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada has prompted hopes within the Canadian personal care industry that it can seize more future sales in Europe’s huge market. Industry figures told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that while they welcomed the duty reductions arising from the deal which was agreed in principle last October, what really encourages them is the prospect of regulatory harmonisation between the EU and Canada.…

Latin America’s cosmetics and personal care products sector has boomed as consumers take advantage of their rising disposable incomes. The region (including Mexico) accounted for 17% of global sales in the beauty and personal care industry, according to market analysts Euromonitor International in 2013. …

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new directive designed to speed the roll-out of high speed broadband systems across the EU. The new legislation insists that any utility network operator – including electricity and water companies, as well as telcos – should have the right to offer telecoms operators access to their infrastructure to install broadband systems.…

A fully automated new milk processing plant set to start operations next month will increase Gujarat-based Rajkot Dairy’s daily milk processing capacity to 600,000 litres from the current 300,000 capacity, its managing director Ashish Sinha told just-food.com

And the plant, in Rajkot, Gujarat, has the capacity to increase processing up to 1 million litres per day, he said.…