Dentifrice brand sales total $469.2 mil. in the 52-weeks ending March 26, a 27.9% dollar share, according to data provided to the company by Chicago-based Information Resources, Inc. North American sales reached $537.6 mil. in the first quarter. Net sales rose 3.1% to $2.24 bil. and net income increased 14.8% to $239.9 mil. Colgate Sparkling White toothpaste with "high cleaning silica with micro-cleaning crystals" will be on shelves May 8. The mint-flavored whitening dentifrice will come in Tartar Control and Baking Soda & Peroxide formulas. A 7.8 oz. and 6 oz. tube will retail for $3.49 and $2.99, respectively. Print, TV and Internet advertising will break in June, as well as FSIs with coupons and in-store displays
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
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Retailer Ulta Beauty, Inc. reports net sales in the fiscal first quarter beat consensus estimates, rising 4.5% to $2.85bn, as the company sees benefits of its recently announced ‘Beauty Unleashed’ initiative.
Verfora grows almost 10-times faster than the Swiss consumer health market in the opening months of 2025.
Bayer's Iberogast Advance's combination of six herbal ingredients may produce a synergistic effect that acts on multiple underlying issues contributing to digestive disorders like functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a recently published study suggests.
