Korean brands prove successful in Asia
Korean beauty brands are doing big business outside their home market. BW Confidential analyzes what is driving...April 16, 2014
The state of France’s retail perfumery landscape
BW Confidential analyzes the challenges facing France’s retail perfumery landscape The economic troubles plaguing France...April 2, 2014
The state of Japan’s beauty market
BW Confidential analyzes the state of Japan’s beauty market and looks at the changes in the country’s...March 19, 2014
The latest innovations in beauty packaging
A spotlight on the latest decoration techniques for beauty packs French group DuPont’s development of...March 3, 2014
Emerging Markets Company Profile: Mahogany
Brazil-based Mahogany is seeing success with its franchise model and is also looking to expand through door-to-door...February 25, 2014
The latest trends in packaging decoration
BW Confidential examines how decoration techniques for beauty packaging are evolving When it comes to...February 25, 2014
The future of skincare
In our guest column, market-research company Diagonal Reports analyst Jacqueline Clarke examines the changes to come in...February 25, 2014
Innovative strategies to marketing make-up
A spotlight on creative approaches that make-up brands are using to promote the category Burberry’s...February 25, 2014
Smarter ways to sell color cosmetics
How can retailers and brands improve the way they sell color cosmetics? Make-up is the...February 25, 2014
The latest make-up trends
An analysis of new directions in make-up Intuitive color Make-up that is...February 25, 2014
Budget make-up brands make waves
How low-priced make-up brands are impacting the color cosmetics business Budget make-up brands are garnering more...February 25, 2014
The state of today’s make-up market
BW Confidential analyzes the color category’s performance and looks at recent shifts in the market ...February 25, 2014
A cautious start to 2014
The year 2014 started out on a cautionary note. Christmas sales in many countries in Europe, such...February 24, 2014
What’s new in digital for beauty?
BW Confidential analyzes recent digital initiatives from beauty brands For tech-savvy consumers, the process of...February 18, 2014
The state of Chile’s prestige beauty market
Chile’s prestige beauty sector is seeing good growth, despite a flourishing parallel market, discounting and little development...February 5, 2014
The latest packaging innovations
A review of some of the latest packaging innovations on the market Naya is an...January 29, 2014
Rethinking packaging in today’s challenged environment
How the crisis is affecting suppliers and innovation in beauty packaging The past year has...January 28, 2014
What’s ahead for beauty
In a guest column, UBS Investment Research global consumer staples analyst Nik Modi gives his views on...January 28, 2014
The industry viewpoint on spa industry challenges
Four spa professionals talk about the challenges facing the business Wynne Business...January 28, 2014
The spa industry post-recession
What the spa industry has to gain from the recession The recession has been a...January 28, 2014
Color cosmetics trends
An analysis of six major trends in today’s color cosmetics market There’s an application for...January 28, 2014
The industry viewpoint on selling color cosmetics
We ask two brands and two retailers about the performance and evolution of the make-up category and...January 28, 2014
A look at Amazon’s luxury beauty store business
BW Confidential analyzes online retailer Amazon’s luxury beauty store business, which launched at the end of last...January 22, 2014
Make-up market analysis
Color cosmetics put in a respectable performance last year. BW Confidential analyzes brand and retailer strategies to...January 21, 2014
Industry roundtable: Fragrance creation
We ask six perfumers for their thoughts on innovation and how the fragrance creation process could be...January 13, 2014
Looking ahead in skincare trends
An analysis of the major trends and directions set to drive the skincare market Exotic...January 13, 2014
The impact of today’s fragrance regulations
Increased self-regulation combined with obligations to comply with REACH continue to cause problems for fragrance houses ...January 10, 2014
Back to basics for the fragrance creation industry?
Putting creativity back into perfume making Browse through some of the fragrance blogs and you’ll...January 10, 2014
What’s next for beauty?
In our guest column, Morning Star equity analyst Erin Swanson gives her views on how the market...January 9, 2014
The industry viewpoint on skincare
We ask two brands and two retailers about the development of the skincare business and how the...January 9, 2014