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L'Oréal is a French personal-care group based in Clichy, near Paris, and one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world. It was founded in 1909 by the chemist Eugène Schueller, who began by…

Coty Inc. is a multinational beauty company with roots going back to the perfumer François Coty, who started the business in Paris in 1904. Today it is incorporated in the United States and run from…

Unilever is a British consumer-goods group headquartered in London, formed in 1930 from the merger of Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie. It is a public company listed in London, Amsterdam and New…

The Estée Lauder Companies is an American beauty group founded in 1946 and based in New York City. It develops and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products across roughly 150…

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton is a French luxury conglomerate based in Paris, formed in 1987 when Louis Vuitton merged with the drinks group Moët Hennessy. It is publicly listed on Euronext Paris…

Henkel is a German consumer-goods and chemical group based in Düsseldorf, founded in 1876 in Aachen by Friedrich Karl Henkel and two partners. It is a publicly listed company on the Frankfurt Stock…

Puig Brands, S.A. is a Barcelona-based fashion and beauty group founded in 1914 by Antonio Puig Castelló. What began as a Spanish perfumery grew into a family-run international company spanning…

Revlon is an American beauty group founded in New York City in 1932 by Charles and Joseph Revson with chemist Charles Lachman, starting from a nail enamel and growing into a maker of mass-market and…

Procter & Gamble is an American consumer-goods company founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PG, it…

Amorepacific is South Korea's largest cosmetics company and one of the biggest beauty groups in the world. The business dates to 1945, when Sungwhan Suh took over a family camellia-oil trade and…

Orkla ASA is a Norwegian conglomerate based in Oslo, with roots in Norwegian mining before it reshaped itself into a branded consumer-goods group. It is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange…

Shiseido Company, Limited is one of the world's oldest cosmetics companies, founded in Tokyo in 1872 as Japan's first Western-style pharmacy and now the country's largest beauty manufacturer. The…

Kao Corporation is a Japanese consumer-goods and chemicals group based in Tokyo, with origins in a soap business established by Tomiro Nagase in the 1880s. It adopted the Kao Corporation name in 1985…

Kenvue Inc. is an American consumer health company based in Summit, New Jersey, incorporated in 2022 and spun off from Johnson & Johnson's consumer healthcare division. It began trading as an…

Wella Company is an independent, Geneva-based beauty group that owns professional and consumer hair, nail and beauty brands. Its roots reach back to a German hair business started by Franz Ströher in…

American International Industries is a family-run American beauty manufacturer founded in 1971 by Zvi Ryzman, who still serves as its president and chief executive. Based in the Los Angeles area of…

Beiersdorf AG is a Hamburg-based German consumer-goods company founded in 1882, active in skin care, personal care and, separately, adhesives. It is publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange…

Edgewell Personal Care is an American consumer-products company headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut. It was created in 2015 through a spin-off from Energizer Holdings and trades publicly on the New…

GIVET SRL is an Italian beauty group based in Turin and founded in March 2022. It runs as a self-described B2B "house of beauty brands," meaning it builds and owns its own cosmetics labels rather…

Inter Parfums, Inc. is an American fragrance company founded in 1982 and based in New York, and one of the fragrance industry's major licensing groups. It creates and distributes prestige perfumes…

Kering is a French luxury-goods conglomerate based in Paris, founded in 1962 by François Pinault as the timber trader Pinault S.A. and renamed from Pinault-Printemps-Redoute to Kering in 2013. It is…

Cantabria Labs is a privately held, family-owned Spanish group specialising in dermatology and dermocosmetics. It was established in 1989 in northern Spain by the Matji and Quintana families and is…

Pierre Fabre is a French pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics group based in Castres, in southern France, and incorporated in 1962 by the pharmacist of the same name. It makes prescription medicines,…

Sodalis Group is an Italian family-owned company working in cosmetics, personal care and nutraceuticals. Founded in 1990 and based in Lodi, near Milan, it has grown mainly by buying other businesses,…

Berner Oy is a Finnish family business founded in Helsinki in 1883 by the Norwegian merchant Sören Berner. It is a diversified group active in consumer goods, healthcare, agricultural trade and…

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. is an American consumer goods company based in Ewing, New Jersey, and traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CHD. Established in 1847, it is best…

L'Occitane Group is a Luxembourg-registered holding company in cosmetics, skincare and wellness, built on L'Occitane en Provence, the body-care and skincare brand started by Olivier Baussan in 1976.…

Mavive S.p.A. is a family-owned Italian fragrance company headquartered in Venice. It was founded in 1986 by Massimo Vidal, growing out of the Vidal family's earlier perfume business, and remains…

New Flag GmbH is a Munich-based beauty company founded in 2010 by Niklas Epstein and Daniel Haffa. It works in two ways at once: it builds and owns its own beauty brands, and it distributes other…

OCEANIC S.A. is a family-owned Polish cosmetics manufacturer from Sopot, established in 1982 by Dorota and Wojciech Soszyński. Structured as a privately held joint-stock company, it develops and…

PZ Cussons is a British consumer-goods company headquartered in Manchester and listed on the London Stock Exchange. It began in 1884 as Paterson Zochonis, a commodity-trading firm operating between…

Sarantis Group is a Greek consumer-products company based in Marousi, Athens, with its parent entity, Gr. Sarantis S.A., established in 1964. It manufactures and distributes brands across beauty,…

Beauty Rebels AS is a Norwegian cosmetics company headquartered in Oslo, founded in January 2022 and organised as a joint-stock company (aksjeselskap). Rather than a single label, it operates as a…

Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American consumer-products group based in New York City, with roots going back to 1806 and a soap-and-candle business started by William Colgate. It took its present…

Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is a Swiss luxury goods group, founded in 1988 by Johann Rupert and based in Bellevue, near Geneva. It owns a portfolio of largely independent houses spanning…

Elfa Group is an international cosmetics manufacturer that dates its founding to 1997, when its first company, Elfa Laboratory, was set up. Headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, it started out distributing…

Invogue Limited is a British beauty company founded in 2008 and based in Ascot, Berkshire. It is privately owned and works as a house of brands, developing and selling several beauty labels rather…

Luxury Brand Partners is a privately held American beauty group founded in 2012 and based in Miami, Florida. It works as a brand incubator and operator, creating and running artist- and founder-led…

Neopharm Co., Ltd. is a South Korean skincare company founded in 2000 and based in Daejeon. It specialises in dermo-cosmetic products for sensitive and dry skin, built on its own ceramide-based…

OTB Group, short for "Only The Brave", is an Italian fashion holding company based in Breganze, in the Veneto region. Renzo Rosso formed it in 2002 to serve as the parent of Diesel and a growing set…

Paris Corner Perfumes is a fragrance house based in Deira, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, trading as Paris Corner Perfumes LLC. It specialises in affordable Arabian and oriental perfumery, which…

STADA Arzneimittel AG is a German pharmaceutical company based in Bad Vilbel, near Frankfurt. It began in Dresden in 1895 as a pharmacists' cooperative and now works across three areas:…

Founded in New York in 2010 by entrepreneur Jamie Salter, Authentic Brands Group is a US company that specialises in owning and licensing consumer names. It does not run factories; instead it holds…

BCL Company, Inc. is a Japanese cosmetics maker headquartered in Tokyo. It began in 1979 as the cosmetics division of Sony Creative Products Inc. and became a separate business in 1996, later trading…

Beauty San S.p.A. is an Italian perfume company headquartered in Prato, Tuscany. It started in 1996 as the local arm of Sanofi Beautè and was made independent in 2000 by Gualtiero Valdo. The firm…

Bolton Group is a privately held Italian consumer-goods company based in Milan, founded in 1949 by Joseph Nissim and still run by the founding Nissim family. It operates across food, home care,…

Cosmo Group Sp. z o.o. is a Polish beauty company based in Kiekrz, near Poznań. Founded in 2006 by Kamila and Artur Błażejewski, it remains privately owned and run by the founding family, with Kamila…

Fragrance World Trading LLC is a family-owned perfume company from Deira in the United Arab Emirates. It develops, manufactures and exports affordable Arabian and niche-inspired fragrances, and…

Marc Elrick set up Future Beauty Labs in Glasgow in 2016 as a house for developing and running its own beauty labels. The Scottish group has made its name in the self-tan category, where its…

HIC Beauty S.r.l. is a privately held Italian company based in San Giuliano Milanese, just outside Milan, that specialises in building and running niche perfume brands. Its founding year is not…

Incosmetics ApS is a privately held, family-run Danish cosmetics company headquartered in Silkeborg. Founded in 2011 by Jesper and Elsemarie Østergaard, it develops, manufactures and distributes…

Karo Healthcare AB is a Stockholm-based consumer-healthcare company founded in 1987 and formerly known as Karo Pharma. It develops and sells over-the-counter medicines, dermo-cosmetic skincare and…

Kosé is a Japanese cosmetics group with roots going back to a 1946 family business in Tokyo, incorporated as Kobayashi Kosé in 1948. It has been publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since…

LG H&H (LG Household & Health Care) is a South Korean consumer-goods group based in Seoul, formed in 2001 when it spun off from LG Chem and listed on the Korea Stock Exchange. It runs three divisions…

Ludovico Martelli S.p.A. is an Italian personal-care company founded in Florence in 1908 and still run by the Martelli family. It remains privately held: the family keeps the majority stake, while…

Manzanita Capital is a privately held London investment firm, founded in 2001 by William S. Fisher as the family office of the Fisher family behind Gap Inc. It focuses on premium and luxury niche…

Markwins Beauty Brands is an American color-cosmetics company based in City of Industry, California. It started in 1984 as an importer of cosmetics from Taiwan and grew into a maker of makeup,…

Niche Beauty Lab is a Spanish skincare company founded in Barcelona in 2018 by Sergio Chorrero, who still runs it as chief executive. It works as a digital-first house that formulates products in its…