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6 Apr

This Beauty Company Made a Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum

This Beauty Company Made a Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum
Upwell Cosmetics has industry-sized aspirations for its latest microalgae-derived wax base. Formulated as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based and animal-derived waxes, the wax has the flexibility to be utilized in myriad beauty and private care products including sunscreen, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, lip products and more. The important thing ingredient is microalgae isochrysis, which scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute discovered synthesizes a compound called alkenones, which creates a wax-like consistency when extracted. Upwell cofounders Daniella Zakon and Alexandra Dowling Lari — who occur to be Woods Hole, Massachusetts, natives themselves — licensed the ingredient patent from the Institute, and at the moment are focused on scaling production enough for the wax to be a viable alternative to existing prevalent wax...
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5 Apr

Revlon to Exit Bankruptcy as a Private Company –

Revlon to Exit Bankruptcy as a Private Company –
Revlon is about to emerge from bankruptcy later this month as a non-public company and without Ronald Perelman at its helm, now that a federal judge has approved its plan. The business had been traded on the Latest York Stock Exchange since 1996, when owner MacAndrews & Forbes took it public. But through Revlon’s newly approved bankruptcy plan, ownership stakes will likely be handed to secured lenders, while existing shareholders, including MacAndrews chairman Perelman, who controlled around 85 percent of the corporate as of earlier this yr, will likely be left with nothing. Through the plan, the troubled 90-year-old Latest York-based beauty company that owns the namesake Revlon, Elizabeth Arden and Almay brands will eliminate greater than $2.7 billion in debt...
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4 Apr

Chinese Company Buys Cerruti 1881 and Kent & Curwen

Chinese Company Buys Cerruti 1881 and Kent & Curwen
LONDON – Guangzhou-based fashion company Biem.L.Fdlkk Garment has purchased the worldwide trademark rights of Cerruti 1881 and Kent & Curwen, two brands whose owners have included Trinity Ltd. and Shandong Ruyi. The Chinese firm said it paid the equivalent of $62.18 million for the worldwide trademark rights of Cerruti 1881, and $41.45 million for the worldwide trademark of Kent & Curwen. The 2 brands were once owned by Trinity Ltd., as was Gieves & Hawkes, which was sold to Frasers Group last November. Trinity Ltd. was sold in 2017 by its owner, the Hong Kong-based sourcing giant Fung Group, to the now debt-laden Chinese fashion manufacturing giant Shandong Ruyi Technology Group. As reported, Cerruti 1881 fell victim to cuts because the Chinese owners struggled to...
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1 Apr

Episode 26: The Company Behind the Fight Against Microplastics

Episode 26: The Company Behind the Fight Against Microplastics
WWD Voices cohost Arthur Zaczkiewicz talks to Dr. Paul Servin, applications development director at Xeros, which is a green tech innovation business “with solutions that transform the performance, impact and economics of the style and laundering industry,” the corporate said, adding that its technologies “revolutionize the best way we make and clean our clothes; conserving water and stopping waste.” Click HERE to take heed to the podcast. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '1378822052216463'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); ...
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