My first Retail Focus article for cosmeticsbusiness.com is about online retailer Point Rouge. A direct competitor of Planet Prestige!
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ECM market report: Colour Cosmetics
Obviously I can’t post the entire market report. However, here are a couple of the main trends and market drivers that have characterised the German colour cosmetics segments in 2012/2013:
1) limited editions! This is a unique aspect of the German colour cosmetics market. We have four drug store brands here – Palmer’s P2, Coty’s Manhattan and Cosnova’s Catrice and Essence – that have the same target group (the teen and twen market) and a similar entry-level pricing. These three companies are fierce competitors and they battle it out with a product launch pace that has to be seen to be believed. Continue reading
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Store Profile: Planet Prestige
Planet Prestige is an online store for premium and niche beauty which was founded in December 2012. So far so good. But, and that is the unusual twist, unlike most online retailers the company has also opened a perfumery here in Berlin. Yes, a proper bricks-and-mortar store.
According to current EU legislation you can only sell cosmetics online if you also have at least one real store, so most online retailers have a street address somewhere to satisfy the requirements and that’s it. The Planet Prestige store on Oranienburger Straße 27, however, is a very stylish stand-alone store. It is also my current Mintel article topic. Continue reading
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Global Art of Perfumery 2013: [Show Report]
Last weekend the Global Art of Perfumery trade show took place in Berlin. The organisers moved it here from Düsseldorf in a bid to re-establish the show concept and, from rumours I’ve heard at other trade shows, help boost visitor numbers which had fallen off in recent years….!
But I’m not here to judge! I’m here to visit the show which is what I did. More on Global Art of Perfumery 2013 after the jump (as one of my favourite Berlin blogs – IheartBerlin – always says….!) Continue reading
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Mintel article: Wheadon
And here is the article on perfumery store Wheadon which I wrote for Mintel’s BPC back in January – enjoy but please respect the copyright!! Wheadon article
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Social Commerce: [Analysis] The German Beauty Blogosphere
This article was originally intended for one of my journalistic projects. Earlier this year I was commissioned to write a brief analysis of the German beauty blogosphere; what it looks like, who the main players are and a description of the major trends and dynamics. Continue reading
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Asian colourants: Liese, Schwarzkopf & Beautylabo
I came back to Berlin from my travels in Asia with some 45 kilos of luggage. An additional 5 kilos (mainly face masks, teas and dried flowers, together with plastic Daiso odds and ends) are still in transit via surface mail from Singapore and should arrive in about two months or so. And about 15 kilos of the luggage consisted of cosmetics – including three really cool hair colourants which I bought in Thailand. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Bangkok: Niche beauty from Thailand
I just came back from a short trip to Bangkok where I did some sightseeing, met up with friends and ate as much papaya salad as I could. And of course I also went shopping! Bangkok has some jaw-dropping malls, like gigantic Centralworld (which includes the rather cool Zen department store – this is the store that was damaged by fire together with a part of Centralworld during the riots of 2010 and on my last trip to Bangkok, 2011, it was still being renovated). Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: [Company Profile] The Daiso empire
Ever so slightly off topic (since Daiso’s not a Singaporean company) but what the heck, it’s my blog and I can write whatever I like!
So now you’ll be hearing about one of my favourite Asian retail chains ever: Japanese household goods discounter chain Daiso. I discovered Daiso during my first trip to Japan (well, my first trip to Japan as an adult) and immediately became a fan. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: 7-11 travel-sized C&T
The 7-11 convenience store chain over here has introduced a very attractive way of presenting travel sized cosmetics – slim towers of small cardboard boxes filled with cosmetics from a wide range of brands. Continue reading
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