Premium Beauty and Personal Care

Offering hundreds of brands spanning multiple industries across the world, Procter & Gamble is a global beauty and personal care heavyweight. In 2019, the company continued to expand its footprint internationally, with growth in multiple developing ...

As the beauty and personal care world sees a growing interest in premium beauty, Johnson & Johnson’s mass-heavy portfolio is holding steady through its power brands Neutrogena, Aveeno and Listerine. While the company is seeing a slowdown in growth, ...

Coty ranks highly in its key categories of colour cosmetics and fragrances, but faces intense competition from the rise of indie brands. The COVID-19 pandemic will also bring further obstacles for Coty’s portfolio, due to its discretionary nature and...

Unilever’s beauty and personal care sales are likely to remain mostly shielded from the impact of COVID-19, owing to its strong offering in mass and core products. Expansion of its premium portfolio into China offers opportunities for growth, as does...

As the global leader in beauty and personal care, L’Oréal benefits from its diversified portfolio across various age, income and pricing tiers. While the company’s dermocosmetics division continues to climb, its mass and luxury brands face fierce ...

As beauty and personal care sees growth for indie players and private label, Beiersdorf is looking to raise its profile through incubators. Through repositioning Nivea, launching new circular products and running a K-beauty incubator, Beiersdorf saw ...

Estée Lauder Cos Inc performed above the industry average in 2019, helped by the Estée Lauder and La Mer brands, skin care, and online sales in the US and China. China is growing in importance, especially in colour cosmetics, which is expected to see...

Premium beauty and personal care experienced robust growth in 2019 despite the vast majority of consumers, especially in rural areas, having limited discretionary income. Central regions and in particular, the capital city of Baku, drove the strong ...

With Swiss GDP being relatively high, especially in per capita terms and especially compared to neighbouring countries, and disposable income and the employment rate also high, local consumers are willing to pay more for high-quality products that ...

Premium beauty and personal care continued to record healthy current value growth in 2019, with premium colour cosmetics the most dynamic of the main categories. It is benefiting from strong awareness among young urban professionals with growing ...

AmorePacific is a South Korea-based cosmetics manufacturer that has grown to become a global top 20 player. With the strong consumer demand for K-Beauty, the company’s sales are heavily concentrated in Asia Pacific. The company expects wider coverage...

In Kenya, premium beauty and personal care has seen the introduction of products such as face masks, serums, exfoliators, tinted sunscreen and skin hydration products. These appeal to the niche segment of middle- and higher-income consumers who are ...

Although premium beauty and personal care continued to see current value growth in 2019, this was lower than in any other year of the review period. Continued economic downturn was seen at the end of the review period, with decreasing GDP growth, ...

Following weak economic performance over the review period, the Nigerian economy is expected to recover over the forecast period, thus helping to drive demand for premium beauty and personal care, which has struggled in recent times. As incomes ...

Social media and television continued to play a pivotal role in the massive infiltration of Western influence in the country in 2019. The growth and internationalisation of Pakistan’s media industry as well as fashion and style in the country became ...

In 2019, premium beauty and personal care was affected by the increasing number of promotional activities and price reductions at beauty specialist retailers. Compared with previous years in the review period these activities were even stronger, ...

2019 saw the premium segment show strong signs of recovery after several years of weakened sales. The economic crisis of the 2010s led to a shift in spending from premium to mass as consumers traded down to basic products. In 2019, the economy ...

While premium beauty and personal care showed an improved performance in terms of total current value sales growth in 2019, this was mainly due to unit price increases driven by rising inflation, higher import tariffs and the depreciation of the ...

The impact of the economic crisis on high-income consumers has been fairly negligible. Therefore, the performance of premium brands was better than that for mass during 2019, especially in categories such as skin care, where new products focused on ...

Premium beauty and personal care remained niche, and value sales were low in comparison to the total value of beauty and personal care sales, as continued economic uncertainty and rising inflation prevailed in 2019. This high inflation resulted in ...