With a total of 207,238 visitors this year’s Cosmoprof event in Bologna, Italy saw a 7% increase in visitors. 21% of these visitors came from 134 countries. 2,450 exhibitors from 69 different countries and 24 national groups were showing their products and services.
Three days before the Cosmoprof exhibition, Cosmopack 2014 had already started. The exhibition is focussed on the production chain, with 14,000 square metres of exhibition space sold and up 9% on last year, with 400 exhibitors from 33 different countries. Cosmopack encompasses the whole cosmetics industry production chain from raw materials to machinery, the most innovative packaging and the highest performance textures in one single event. After last year’s Lipstick Factory event (the special event which brought the whole lipstick production chain together), this year’s Powder Factory showed the development and manufacturing of face powder – from production to packaging.
A further initiative was reserved for the Cosmopack exhibitors who were given the opportunity to express their technology by interpreting the Cosmoprof 2014 advertising image in their own ways with a woman emerging in flowing textiles from a flower blossom. The exhibitors produced items which gave maximum freedom to their creativity and innovative skills, perfectly expressing the idea of the link between their core businesses and the Cosmoprof image. There were 5 winners: Pink Frogs for “Skincare”, Toly for ”The most innovative packaging”, HCT for “Packaging make-up” and, joint winners, Ancorotti and Nastritex for ”Make-up innovation”
