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Véronique Courtois Appointed Chairman and CEO of Parfums Christian Dior and LVMH Beauty Division

The appointment of Courtois consolidates leadership at a time when beauty remains one of LVMH’s most dynamic growth categories.

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Party of You Launches as an Antidote to Wellness Culture, Reframing Skin Care for Real Life

Rather than selling “better habits,” Party of You sells solutions for imperfection.

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Beauty's New Rules: 10 Takeaways from 2025's Prestige Playbook

At 5.7% of prestige share, bath and body is the smallest category—but one of the most emotionally resonant.

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Balance Sheet Fixed, Business TBD: Coty After Wella

For Coty, the Wella chapter is closed. The harder question is whether the streamlined portfolio that remains can deliver.

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Metal-Free Dispensing & Upcycled Materials Lead the Way in Berlin Packaging's Sneak Peek of Paris Packaging Week

Among the most technically significant launches are Berlin Packaging Beauty’s new metal-free and POM-free dispensing engines.

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Inside Croda’s Ingredient Lineup for in-cosmetics Global

A central focus of Croda Beauty Actives’ presence is a new addition to its Matrixyl peptide range.

Coty Gets a High-Tech Glow Up with OpenAI Partnership

The OpenAI collaboration builds on Coty’s rapidly expanding internal AI momentum, including a global upskilling program aimed at embedding AI fluency across functions.

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NJPEC Opens Nominations for 2026 Packaging Hall of Fame

Submit nominations by March 12, 2026.

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Maesa Doubles Down on “Face-Grade for Body” with Ontu—and Target is the Launchpad (Exec Q&A)

For Maesa, Ontu signals more than a category expansion: it’s a play at reframing body care as serious skin care—and doing it at scale through a mass retailer increasingly fluent in prestige sensibilities.

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Estée Lauder’s Turnaround Takes Hold: Margin Repair, Category Momentum and a Clearer Path Back to Growth

Net sales rose 6% to $4.2B (organic +4%), with strength across prestige skin care, fragrance and hair care offsetting near-term makeup disruption.

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e.l.f. Beauty Posts 38% Q3 Growth, Lifts FY26 Outlook as rhode Fuels International Momentum

A standout contributor to the quarter was rhode’s record-breaking launch at Sephora in the U.K., which management cited as a key highlight alongside continued U.S. momentum.

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Carbon-to-Cream: Savor Leverages Food-Tech Platform to Enter Beauty Ingredients

Using proprietary thermochemical processes and inputs like captured CO₂, green hydrogen and methane, Savor can tune fatty acid profiles for consistency and performance, a persistent pain point for plant-derived oils.

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Ulta Beauty Formalizes Its Playbook as Beauty-Sports Partnerships Go Pro

The strategy reflects a broader recalibration underway across beauty: sports partnerships are no longer about visibility alone.

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IMCAS 2026: The Lifted, Plumped and Regenerative in Paris

In a grey, but no less dazzling Paris, just a hop and a skip from both the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, aesthetics professionals gathered at the Palais des Congrès to connect, catch up with the industry and catch a glimpse of what glimmers on the horizon.

Bio Component Research Appoints Sonal Patel-Trivedi as VP of Business Development

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Minimalist, Natural, Mighty: ViscoPure Reinvents Gel Texture

ViscoPure improves texture and sensory properties, producing smooth, non-stringy and transparent gels that meet current minimalist aesthetic trends.

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Indies Set the Pace, Conglomerates Hold the Shelf—2026 Lessons for Beauty

Conglomerates defend share, while indies drive upside.