Personal Care

LONDON and ROTTERDAM — Unilever has plans to grow its personal portfolio. The company on Monday announced its acquisition of leading skin care brand Carver Korea from Goldman Sachs and Bain Private Equity for $2.68 billion (2.27 euro).

Carver’s leading brand, AHC, is focused on age management and skin hydration and nourishment, with a line of products that includes essences, toners, moisturizers, masks and sun protection products. The company’s origins are as a professional products supplier for beauty salons.

STAMFORD, Conn. — To mark the coming release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Philips Norelco is bringing three new shavers to market, all of which are inspired by the film series, for a limited time. The four shavers bring together the company’s technology with new design features that are meant to emulate different “Star Wars” characters.

Stamford, Conn. — Henkel Consumer Goods officially has a new North American Headquarters. The company began operations at its new location in downtown Stamford, Conn. in late August with the arrival of roughly 425 employees from both the company’s laundry and home care business and its beauty care business.

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Customers purchasing Unilever personal care products will now be able to easily see what’s inside. The company is now listing fragrance-level ingredients for products from its brands that include Dove, Axe, Degree, Nexxus, Suave, TRESemmé and Vaseline.

AMITYVILLE, N.Y. — Skin care and hair care company Sundial Brands on Monday announced its debut on Black Enterprise Magazine’s BE 100s List as the tenth largest black-owned business in America. With a national reach of 35,000 major retailers, an increasing focus on its global strategy and a continual emphasis on new innovations, Sundial is also the only beauty and personal care manufacturer to make this year’s list. 

Americans are spending more than $60 billion on beauty annually. To survive as a meaningful competitor in this evolving beauty arena, drug stores must start to burnish their image.

Cosmoprof North America, or CPNA, delivered a robust beauty trade fair featuring resources for every aspect of business, from packaging and filling to finished product. The event, held July 9 to July 12 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, grew this year in both attendance and square footage, which can be attributed to expansion in such specialized areas as scent, natural products and multicultural items, not to mention a multitude of country pavilions — with Korean beauty holding court in two areas.

WILTON, Conn. — Beiersdorf’s Aquaphor brand is currently in the middle of its biggest launch ever to bring the first ointment body spray to the category. Aquaphor Ointment Body Spray contains the same ingredients as Aquaphor Healing Ointment, and is designed to immediately soothe and relive dry skin, the company said.