Industry Trends

May 2021

See what has been happening in Asia’s pharma and personal care industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Environmental Risks, Vaccine hesitancy, Top beauty and personal care brands 2021 and more. See what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Asian cities face greatest environmental risks
BusinessWorld

ASIAN CITIES face the greatest risk from environmental issues including air pollution and natural disasters, according to a report by research firm Verisk Maplecroft. Of the 100 most vulnerable cities, 99 are in Asia, according to the report released on Thursday. Of those, 37 are in China and 43 are in India, the world’s first and third biggest emitters of greenhouse gases respectively. Globally, 1.
BASF upgrades Sunscreen Simulator
Cosmetics Business

BASF Care Creations has refined the functionality of its Sunscreen Simulator, a tool for determining products’ SPFs, to include environmental parameters.
Innovation cycles have ‘dramatically shortened’ during COVID-19, says Solvay
CosmeticsDesign-Asia

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has fuelled a raft of sustainable beauty and personal care innovation, creating a wave of more value chain collaboration that will likely stick, say executives at chemicals major Solvay.
Top beauty and personal care brands 2021? Colgate, Lifebuoy, Dove ‘most chosen’

Colgate, Lifebuoy and Dove are the most chosen beauty and personal care brands in the world, with a hygiene focus driving growth in an otherwise flat market, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s 2021 Brand Footprint.

Pharma industry's reputation hits plateau amid spike in vaccine hesitancy

FiercePharma News

Pharma industry’s reputation hits plateau amid spike in vaccine hesitancy.

Aussie makeup brand expands into skincare
BusinessWorld

AFTER makeup collaborations with actress Nadine Lustre in April 2018, singer Regine Velasquez in March 2020, and a merchandise kit with Korean actor Park Seo Joon in November 2020, Australian cosmetics brand BYS is venturing into a full skincare line. Established in 2004 in Melbourne, Australia, BYS Philippines was set up in 2012. The brand’s skincare line, Skin by BYS (which was launched in April) is a local initiative by BYS Philippines.
Make-up ‘renaissance’: How Estée Lauder expects colour to trend based on China’s COVID-19 recovery
CosmeticsDesign-Asia RSS

Beauty major EstÃe Lauder Companies has revealed how the rapid recovery of colour cosmetics in China has informed its global make-up strategy.
BioNTech, Fosun Pharma eye 1B doses of COVID-19 vaccine capacity with new China JV
FiercePharma News

BioNTech, Fosun Pharma eye 1B doses of COVID-19 vaccine capacity with new China JV
Procter & Gamble partners with Singapore EDB on launch of iLab 2021 virtual innovation festival
Global Cosmetics News

Procter & Gamble has launched a three-day virtual innovation festival, named iLab 2021, in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). THE DETAILS The festival brings together start-ups from Singapore and across the region, which will then collaborate with P&G to help create innovations to overcome challenges in the fields of advertising, retail and supply chain.
PPD Opens Multipurpose Clinical Research Laboratory in Suzhou, China
Pharmaceutical News

PPD held a grand opening event for its new multipurpose lab in Suzhou, China, to support pharma and biotech companies managing China research studies.

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