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Beauty company COTY seals licensing agreement with KOSE

03 Mar '06

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Currently represented by Kate Moss - a British supermodel - it garnered high awareness and sales as a self-service cosmetics brand.

RIMMEL is widely available in over 50 countries throughout Europe, the Americas and Oceania.

In addition to importing products, new products will be customized to the tastes and make-up style of Japanese women, developed and launched using the RIMMEL brand's unique, hip and edgy positioning in combination with KOSE's strong R&D skills and expertise in the cosmetics industry.

The products will be distributed in drugstores, supermarkets, and variety stores with wall units throughout the country.

Founded on a fragrance business in Paris by Francois Coty, a chemist, in 1904.

Coty maintains its standing in the mass and prestige markets with its products distributed in over 80 countries worldwide.

Production bases are in the United States (Sanford, North Carolina), England (Ashford), Spain (Granollers), Monaco and France (Chartres). Approximately 8,000 employees in 25 countries.

Founded as a cosmetics company in Tokyo by Kouzaburo Kobayashi in 1946.

KOSE's main strengths are its market-creating product development capability and its original brand marketing that have established the brand at the most suitable level depending on consumer needs, being distributed across Asia with a central focus on Japan.

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