Archives for September 2, 2004

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Avon sticks to women and direct sales

Sometimes not following market trends and competitors, but sticking to your own business and marketing strategy may be the best way to succeed. One of the best examples of this is Avon, the sixth largest global beauty company, which still ignores men...

"The rest of the world" brings in higher growth

World leading cosmetics companies have rediscovered "the rest of the world" - everywhere outside Western Europe, North America and Japan - as one of the strongest forces driving sales growth. With increasing incomes, the former communist and third...

Fytokem's sales rising after slump

Outsourcing may have helped Fytokem Products, a Canadian producer of plant-based ingredients, increase its sales from last quarter, but they were still well down on the same period last year.

P&G settles lawsuit with Vidal Sassoon

Proctor & Gamble and Vidal Sassoon have announced that a lawsuit claiming P&G had deliberated sabotaged Vidal Sassoon hair care products in favour of other brands in the North American and European markets has been settled to 'the mutual satisfaction...