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Natural personal care products see fresh new investments!
Investment dollars are finding their way back into the natural personal care category, according to this recent story via CGI Magazine.
AkzoNobel’s new investment in the future
AkzoNobel is investing in its English R&D facility, paving the way for innovation and a stronger competitive edge.
Innovation…it’s also about attitude.
Here’s a very good post from Business Week about why those in business who complain and feel victimized don’t invent — they find reasons not to succeed, so they don’t bother to try, and accept failure as inevitable consequence, not as an opportunity to learn and move forward. So they don’t innovate. Often, even the best of...
The segment that’s groomed for (even more!) growth
The men's grooming product category is seeing continued strong worldwide growth
Taking nothing for granted: a primer for 2010
The conservatively upbeat outlook for this year is tempered by the obvious slowness in other areas of the economy that affect the chemical industry, though the personal care products category has been a bright spot. The overall business declined by 6.2% in 2009, its second drop following a 4.7% fall in 2008. We’d like to...
For updated news on the greening of the chemical industry…
Since nearly everybody in the chemical industry is touched by enironmental and sustainability issues and concerns, we’ve made a habit of checking in on ICIS’s Green Chemicals blog, one site that provides consistently-updated reportage on these topics, aggregating news on government and industry activity and the “development of green within the chemical...