Germany enjoys growth in key beauty categories

Published: 23-Sep-2015

The German C&T sector goes from strength to strength, as Annemarie Kruse discovers

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All in all, the German C&T market had a successful year in 2014. According to figures by industry association IKW, the entire cosmetics and personal care market reached turnover of just over €13.01bn in 2014, an increase of 1.6%. With the exception of smaller categories like men’s aftershaves, depilatories and so on, all of the important product sectors registered solid increases last year.

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