February 2024

TOKYO — Shiseido said Wednesday it's launching a recent skincare brand called Sidekick, targeting Gen-Z men in Asia. The initial offering of 4 products went on sale Wednesday at Shiseido’s Beauty Square store in Harajuku, Tokyo, and is as a result of hit e-commerce channels in China from July 1. “We have now positioned skin beauty as our core business and are expanding our skincare and other skin beauty brands in pursuit of becoming the world’s leader on this field by 2030. We're also working on the event of men’s cosmetics within the skin beauty category,” Shiseido said in a press release. “With the launch of Sidekick, we are going to give attention to China where the lads’s cosmetics market is...