Sampling
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How Arcade Beauty CEO Carl Allain aims to drive growth
With CEO Carl Allain at the helm, sampling specialist Arcade Beauty is shaping its growth strategy for the years to come. Turnkey retail products, the backbone of the company’s recently created division, Arcade Beauty Retail, is a key area of[…]
LUXE PACK Monaco 2021: labels, closures, sampling, promotional tools, accessories
It's a wrap! We bring you a brief lowdown on innovations in the labels, closures, sampling, promotional tools and accessories scouted at LUXE PACK Monaco this week. Promotional items Palma collection is Dapy’s new stock collection of champagne[…]
Dossier
LUXE PACK Monaco: 2021 packaging innovations hot off the press!
The 2021 edition of Luxe Pack Monaco, which closed its doors yesterday, proved to be a key moment for the packaging industry after 18 months of a luxury market marked by crisis and uncertainty. Brands and suppliers at the show were more than[…]
What to watch out for at LUXE PACK Monaco
The luxury packaging industry’s renowned annual rendez-vous, LUXE PACK Monaco is opening its doors next week. New materials, sustainable solutions, the latest innovations, a spotlight on China and the LUXE PACK in Green and Formes de Luxe Awards[…]
An industry first? REN & Tubex’s recycled aluminum sample
Billed as "a world first in luxury beauty", Unilever-owned REN Clean Skincare has debuted a sample pack made entirely of recycled aluminum. The sample’s nozzle is designed to be broken off to reseal the tube. REN Clean Skincare’s new sampling[…]
iD Scent reveals latest perfume sampling solutions
Just one year after iD Scent launched monomaterial sample Scentouch, the French sampling specialist is introducing two innovations: Scentpad and Scentdow, also pure paper products. Described as a “high-performance communication tool”, iD Scent’s[…]
In-store beauty sampling reinvented: How coronavirus is changing the game
From Hermès’ H24 contactless fragrance sampler to Dior’s touchless skincare, we look at how luxury beauty brands and retailers are adapting product testing to the pandemic, and the suppliers and olfactory marketing specialists that are providing[…]
Hermès embraces concrete for H24 contactless fragrance sampler
Hermès’ retail sampler for its new men’s fragrance, H24, was redesigned to be contactless in light of hygiene constraints linked to the health crisis. We take a look at the inner workings of this innovative sampling solution. Combining gray[…]
MultiScent 20: a tablet turned fragrance sampler
Brazilian scent tech start-up Noar’s MultiScent 20 is a patented technology allowing consumers to sample up to 20 fragrances via a tablet. Exclusively distributed by US-based sampling specialist Orlandi, the device is geared to retail and to[…]
Paperscent opts for Carestia blotters
Beauty sampling company Carestia Arcade Beauty has inked a partnership with Paperscent to be the exclusive supplier of fragrance blotters worldwide for the latter’s fragrance sample dispensers. The dispensers decorate the blotter in real-time,[…]
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Key Figures
$10bn
The value of the no/low alcohol’s key global markets in 2021, as compared to $7.8bn in 2018. The market segment is expected to continue seeing a compound annual growth rate of 8% between 2021 and 2025. Source: IWSR