Following Diesel’s re-entry into fragrance last fall with French cosmetics giant L’Oréal, another jeans brand is returning to the segment. Italian jeans brand Replay is to launch a duo fragrance line, Replay for Him and Replay  

Israeli packaging manufacturer Lageen Tuboplast has entered into a joint venture with Belarus-based aluminum and plastic tubes supplier Lean Group (Bolisbel) to establish a manufacturing facility producing plastic tubes for the  

Japanese beauty giant Shiseido is gearing up to launch its new high-end skincare line, Synergique, from the Clé de Peau Beauté brand. The line will be exclusively available in Japan and is slated to launch in 262 select  

Research purporting to show that some moisturizing creams can increase the risk of cancer in mice has been rejected as “clinically irrelevant” by German personal-care goods manufacturer Beiersdorf.Published in the Journal of  

Germany-based flavor and fragrance manufacturer Symrise has acquired a 20% stake in US biotechnology firm Therapeutic Peptides Inc (TPI), in a deal that will see the German supplier secure exclusive distribution rights for a  

German discount beauty retailer Rossmann (AS Watson), which operates more than 2,000 doors in Germany, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, has reported a 24.8% increase in sales for the first half of 2008. Registering total  

US entertainment group Warner Brothers (WB) has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Italian beauty manufacturer Selectiva for the production and marketing of a fragrance line featuring Tweety, the yellow canary of Looney  

Retail sales of beauty and personal-care products in airports worldwide more than doubled between 2002 and 2007, reaching $7.2bn last year, according to a recent report from UK-based Verdict Research. Revenues from cosmetics,  

German perfumery chain Douglas (Douglas Holdings) has announced the resignation of director category management Christian Lorenz. Set to leave the group September 30 after four years in his current position, Lorenz chose to  

British makeup artist brand Jemma Kidd Make Up has launched a new masstige brand in the US, JK Jemma Kidd, targeted at the tween and teen markets.Announcing the launch, co-founder and managing director of Jemma Kidd Make Up,