08.04.08
United Kingdom
www.cussons.com
Sales: $828 million
Sales:
$828 million for personal care and household products. Corporate sales: $1.11 billion for the year ended May 31, 2007.Key Personnel:
Alex Kanellis, group chief executive; and Graham Calder, deputy chairman.Major Products:
Personal care products sold under brands including Imperial Leather, Joy, Cussons Kids, Premier, Carex, Baby, Luksja, Makler, Sweet Seventeen, Venus Hair, Original Source. Household product brands including Morning Fresh, Elephant, E, Radiant, Robb, Duck and Minerva.New Products:
Imperial Leather SkinBliss.Comments:
Sales rose 7% in PZ Cusson’s fiscal year ended May 31, 2007.In January, PZ Cussons acquired Sanctuary Spa Holdings, maker of premium beauty and body care products sold under the Sanctuary brand. According to Cussons, 90% of Sanctuary’s personal care products—shower and bath products, salt scrubs, body lotions, body oils and a small but growing skincare line—are sold in the UK through an exclusive distribution agreement with Boots the Chemist. The £75m cash deal also included Sanctuary Spa, the UK’s largest day spa based in London’s Covent Garden, which plays an important part in the development of the Sanctuary range of products. Some 64,000 visitors, most of them women, use the facility each year.
PZ Cussons is also setting its sights on females with, SkinBliss moisturizing shower lotion, a new launch from the venerable and very masculine Imperial Leather line. A £1.5 million advertising launch is set to begin next month.