P&G and clairol: watch them go in 2002. (News & Opinion from The Old World).
NOW THAT IT IS ALL STATIONS go for P&G and Clairol, one can expect fireworks in the European hair care category. We have already said that Clairol is an excellent second `masterbrand' to Pantene (see Happi, July 2001), and by all accounts P&G executives are going to give it...

Socially responsible business brawl.
Minneapolis Peddling politics as much as beauty, Body Shop founder Anita Roddick took the cosmetics industry by storm and forged a popular icon of socially responsible business. "We believe that on issues you support--or are against--is a civic responsibility," says a spring 1994 Body Shop catalog insert. Yet when...

Johnson & Johnson acquires DePuy
Major US healthcare product manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is to acquire orthopaedic product manufacturer DePuy Inc, based in Indiana, USA. Under the terms of the agreement, Johnson & Johnson will acquire DePuy for US$35.00 per share, for an aggregate transaction value of $3.5 billion. Simultaneously, Johnson & Johnson and...

A Sarasota spy story.
Sarasotans were stunned when news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was broadcast on Dec. 7, 1941. Although the Royal Air Force had been training pilots in Arcadia the previous year, the conflict overseas seemed far removed. But with America's sudden entrance into World War II,...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Innovative Technologies and Beiersdorf sign wound care dressings deal
UK wound care company Innovative Technologies Group plc said it signed an agreement on a joint product development programme with German skin care and wound care company Beiersdorf AG. The UK company, based in Cheshire, says that under the terms of the deal it will design, manufacture and supply...

Recombinant laminin aimed at skin regeneration treatments
The successful recombinant production of a functional and biologically active laminin molecule has led to the formation of a multinational venture aimed at using the material in skin regeneration treatments. The molecules resulted from research conducted by Dr Peter Yurchenco at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and reported in...

Johnson & Johnson acquires DePuy.
Major US healthcare product manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is to acquire orthopaedic product manufacturer DePuy Inc, based in Indiana, USA. Under the terms of the agreement, Johnson & Johnson will acquire DePuy for US$35.00 per share, for an aggregate transaction value of $3.5 billion. Simultaneously, Johnson &...

Polysaccharide used in cosmetics has medical uses.
A polysaccharide material developed for cosmetic use may also have medical applications, according to Japan's Life Science Industrial Technology Research Institute. Japanese cosmetics firm Kanebo will incorporate into a face-pack product a macromolecular polysaccharide substance derived from a micro-organism found in the natural world. The substance, which...

Turning boys into girls.
How men's magazines are making guys as neurotic, insecure, and obsessive about their appearance as women Love Men's Health Magazine. There I'm out of the closet, and I'm not ashamed. Sure, I know what some of you are thinking: What self-respecting '90s woman could embrace a publication that...

Make-up call: beauty care doesn't have to be a chemical stew.
We primp, we perm, we powder - without blinking a mascara-lined eye about the potentially harmful ingredients we expose ourselves to in the name of beauty. Yet, walking into most salons is like entering a toxic cloud of ammonia and formaldehyde, not to mention an alphabet soup of chemicals you...