Amala Beauty Sees Remarkable Growth Opportunities in China Market

Skin & Body Care

German luxury skin care brand Amala Beauty last week launched livestream campaigns on Tmall Global, Alibaba’s online marketplace, as part of China’s “618” shopping festival. The company said the event exceeded expectations and noted the Chinese market offers remarkable opportunities for the brand to grow. The company said its livestream “focused on exclusive performance skin care products for the China […]

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Beautick Sets Global Expansion, Betting on Diversity and Inclusivity

Skin & Body Care

MILAN — Beautick is in expansion mode. The Milan-based company, which offers hair and beauty services to global fashion houses and celebrities, as well as private clients, is looking both West and East to grow in the sector. Beautick was established in 2013 by hairstylist Beppe D’Elia and in February 2020 welcomed on board a new stakeholder, New York-based p.r. consultant […]

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E-commerce Continues China Boom

Beauty & Balance

As Singles Day approaches, e-commerce sales for prestige beauty products in China are on the rise. According to The NPD Group, e-commerce sales in China reached $710 million in August, up 61 percent year-over-year. Skin care was the best-performing category. Sales were up 71 percent year-over-year, and 59 percent of prestige beauty consumer bought skin-care online in August, according to […]

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US begins airport screenings as SARS-linked virus kills 2 in China

Health Problems

The US will begin screening passengers Friday arriving from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious SARS-linked virus, officials said, after an outbreak that has stricken dozens claimed a second life. Three confirmed cases meanwhile have now been reported outside China—two in Thailand and one in Japan—even as health authorities around the world sought to assure the public […]

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Gene-edited disease monkeys cloned in China

Health Problems

The first cohort of five gene-edited monkey clones made from fibroblasts of a monkey with disease phenotypes were born recently at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai. The expression of BMAL1, a core circadian regulatory transcription factor, was knocked out in the donor monkey using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing at the embryo stage, […]

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Study: Almost 100 million adults have COPD in China

Health Problems

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is widespread in China with 8.6 percent of the country’s adult population – almost 100 million people -suffering from the chronic lung disease, according to a new Tulane University study published in The Lancet. The study, which provided lung-function screenings for more than 50,990 participants, is the largest survey of COPD across age groups ever […]

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