Perfumery-cosmetics looks to the future

July 16, 2020

Press release

Perfumery-cosmetics looks to the future

Launched on June ¹ , the online consultation on the issues and perspectives of the sector has met with a broad response

with the profession:

Benefiting from the support of 15 new associated partners,

The States General of perfumery and cosmetics

have already received 400 proposals from leaders, researchers, project managers, startupers...

On July 10, the steering committee of the General States of the perfumery-cosmetics sector met in order to take stock of the post-Covid situation and to prepare the day of October 15, 2020 in Paris, within the walls of the Cloister of the Cordeliers. This moment of exchanges will bring together all the actors of the sector and will make it possible to discover the results of the consultation carried out within the framework of the States General organized by Cosmetic Valley. It will also be an opportunity to recall the economic weight of the perfumery-cosmetics sector: with nearly 250,000 jobs, the sector weighs almost as much as aeronautics and has maintained most of its production in France.

Throughout the perfumery-cosmetics sector, the coronavirus crisis has triggered a powerful movement of solidarity. From the onset of the pandemic, VSEs and SMEs in the sector have indeed demonstrated tremendous responsiveness, agility and capacity for innovation.

In an emergency context, this network has dedicated or converted its production lines to the manufacture of hydro-alcoholic gel: at the local level, each of these companies has thus supplied its hospital, nursing home or retirement home. Made up of 80% VSEs and SMEs, Cosmetic Valley has also mobilized clusters active in their respective fields of excellence, such as Glass Vallée specializing in luxury bottles, Santé Biotech Bretagne centered on biotech applied to cosmetics, Cosmet 'in Lyon around dermocosmetics, or Authentic Provence and its territory brand.

In various ways, the fifteen Associates of the States General of the perfumery-cosmetics sector will have played a major role in the involvement of their members in the online consultation on the challenges and prospects of the sector. During the day of October 15, they will participate in the writing of the main orientations for the future of the sector and will therefore assert themselves as long-term partners, fully associated with its future strategy.

Thanks to the 400 proposals received from players in the sector from various backgrounds – Management, Research, Production, Innovation – who expressed themselves widely. Proposals which will be analyzed during the summer and will make it possible to build the recovery plan for the sector, the presentation of which is scheduled in Paris on October 15, 2020.

About the Estates General of the perfumery-cosmetics sector

Strongly impacted by the coronavirus crisis, the Beauty industry is questioning its industrial and economic model. To this end, the Cosmetic Valley competitiveness cluster is at the initiative of the General Assembly of the perfumery-cosmetics sector launched last June and which will conclude on October 15 in Paris with the presentation of a recovery plan for the sector.

• General States platform: https://eg2020.cosmetic-valley.com/
• Presentation of the recovery plan for the perfumery-cosmetics sector:

Thursday October 15 in Paris at the Cloître des Cordeliers

STEERING COMMITTEE

The States General steering committee brings together the main players representing the national ecosystem of the perfumery-cosmetics sector :

• COSMETIC VALLEY competitiveness cluster
• Federation of Beauty Companies (FEBEA),
• National Confederation of Aesthetics and Perfumery (CNEP),
• National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
• Directorate General for Enterprises (DGE).
• Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME)
• Companies: ALBEA - BIO-EC / SPINCONTROL - BIOEUROPE – ECOMUNDO - FAPTAR BEAUTY + HOME - GROUPE BATTEUR - NAO LABORATORIES - SEPPIC - VEEVA.
• Universities: University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, GDRO3 - University of Orléans, GDR Cosm'actif

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS

Coming from different regions and territories, or actors with complementary expertise, they enrich and actively participate in the work in progress.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

ORGANIC CLUSTER: brings together more than 300 organic players in the region from different sectors: agri-food, cosmetics, textiles, etc.

COSMET'IN LYON: promotes relations between academic and industrial researchers, supports interdisciplinary research projects of competitiveness clusters

Brittany

SANTE BIOTECH BRETAGNE, reference technological innovation center in Brittany for health and biotech.

Normandy

GLASS VALLEY: world center for luxury bottles in the Bresle valley. Brings together 70 companies and produces more than 70% of the world's production of luxury glass bottles.

New Aquitaine

AQUI O Thermes: cluster of the regional thermal sector which brings together professionals in hydrotherapy, health, tourism, training and research.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

AUTHENTIC PROVENCE: association founded in 2013, guarantees the origin of cosmetic products from the naturalness of Provence.

Meeting

QUALITROPIC: competitiveness cluster for the overseas bioeconomy, promotes the biodiversity of Réunion and the French overseas territories.

And also :

ASPA-INGRECOS: French trade association of surfactant ingredient suppliers and cosmetic ingredient suppliers.

COSMETIC EXECUTIVE WOMEN: ^1st international network of beauty professionals.

FRAGRANCE FOUDATION: promotes talent in the perfume industry.

ELIPSO: association representing manufacturers of plastic and flexible packaging.

PLASTIPOLIS: competitiveness cluster for plastics and composites, supports its 440 members in their innovation process.

PRODAROM: national association of aromatic product manufacturers.

SLOW COSMETIC: NGO which, since 2013, has been campaigning for more ecological, healthy, intelligent and transparent cosmetics.

FRENCH SOCIETY OF COSMETOLOGY (SFC): learned society which promotes scientific knowledge relating to Cosmetology.

UNITIS: organization with a European and international vocation which brings together innovative companies that promote plant ingredients and raw materials used in cosmetic formulations.

ABOUT COSMETIC VALLEY - www.cosmetic-valley.com

Created in 1994, labeled "competitiveness cluster" in 2005, COSMETIC VALLEY is today the cluster of the national French perfumery-cosmetics sector charged by the State with setting up a tricolor strategy to coordinate the actions carried out on the national territory at the service of a sector that brings together 3,200 companies, 80% of which are SMEs and VSEs and around a hundred major brands, representing all the cosmetics businesses: ingredients, processes, packaging, tests, finished products... With With a turnover of 45 billion euros and 246,000 jobs, COSMETIC VALLEY embodies the new values of the "France brand" in the field of perfumery and cosmetics: innovation, performance, product safety, respect for the environment.