Beauty Features
Philip Kingsley to Put his Hair Care on TV
NEW YORK -- After taking his hair care line out of the department store market, where it flourished in the mid-Eighties, Philip Kingsley is moving to a new venue -- television.
Kingsley has teamed up with Infomercial Retail Management, which...
— Apr 15, 1994
Skin Care for Men: No Longer Taboo
NEW YORK -- Men are once again the object of desire in beauty firms' eyes.
The men's skin care market has historically been an exceedingly tough category to crack, but new efforts are being made to turn the traditional tide of reluctance and...
— Apr 15, 1994
New Scents Will Bloom at Cosmoprof
MILAN -- Italian fragrance and cosmetics firms are thinking young and international in anticipation of the Cosmoprof fair in Bologna April 22-25.
Cosmoprof, an international show that last year attracted almost 120,000 visitors, is expected to...
— Apr 15, 1994
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— Apr 15, 1994
Houbrigant Posts Operating Profits
NEW YORK -- Houbigant, the 219-year-old fragrance maker operating in Chapter 11 since November, had operating earnings of $450,970 for the 10 weeks ended Jan. 31, on sales of $4.6 million.
The company, based in Ridgefield, N.J., said in filings...
— Apr 15, 1994
West Coast Reaps Gains of up to 30%
LOS ANGELES -- Sophisticated classics and sporty newcomers are making for steady gains in men's fragrances among West Coast retailers. Even treatment products for men, always a tough sell, are on the rise.
At San Francisco-based I. Magnin,...
— Apr 15, 1994
L'Oreal Taking Direct Control Over Cosmair
PARIS -- Lindsay Owen-Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of L'Oreal, said Thursday that the group would take over its U.S. licensee, Cosmair Inc., thus ending an awkward arrangement that has endured since Cosmair was founded back in the...
— Apr 15, 1994
