China Beauty Industry Insights

China Beauty Expo Adds Clarity to China’s Professional Beauty Reshuffle

China’s professional beauty market is pushing the trillion RMB level with broiling competition driving nearly 170,000 beauty outlets to shut their doors each year. From the local professional beauty practitioner to the top global suppliers, the entire professional beauty segment is facing an unprecedented wave of change and turmoil. China... Read more →

Japan’s “Artisan Spirit” Drives Cosmo Beauty OEM/ODM Success

Only a small pool of European companies can boast of their 200-year histories. Germany has nearly 850 and France barely 200. None can compete with Japan’s 3,146 businesses that have crossed the two-century mark. Many attribute this business longevity to Japan’s pervasive “artisan spirit”. Although still short of its first... Read more →

Cosmax Completes its Shanghai Make-up Plant

In mid-January, Cosmax officially opened its major new make-up facility in Shanghai’s Fengxian District. The launch of this new plant allows Cosmax to separate its skincare-based production facility and its new, make-up OEM plant. Cosmax’s Cui Jing called the new plant a “specialized make-up factory”, noting, “although it’s a new... Read more →

Building Asia’s Hair Industry: Insights from AHMA’s Ye Huimin

China Beauty Expo’s Industry Insights team recently had the chance to sit down with Ye Huimin, founder of the Asia Hair Masters Association (AHMA), to discuss his outlook for the region’s fast-evolving hair products sector. A 40-year veteran of the Asia hair and cosmetics industry, Ye is also the ,... Read more →

Cracking China’s Cosmetics Packaging Market: Learning from Baralan

The design of cosmetics packaging is the product’s first face and is important than ever in today’s battle for brand leadership in China. But China’s massive market opportunity has also attracted equally strong levels of competition – both from domestic players as well as international packaging peers. So, are global... Read more →