About the Summit

The inaugural Natural Beauty Summit, held on the 29, 30 Nov & 1st Dec 2007 in Paris, attracted more than 200 industry leaders, representing a cross cutting spectrum of the cosmetic industry (from ingredient suppliers to cosmetics manufacturers, not to mention packaging companies).

The last summit brought together nearly 250 conventioneers from all over the world, representing 24 nationalities and 5 continents:

• 85% from wider Europe (20% British),
• 8% from North America,
• 6% from Asia,
• 1% from Australia.

Over 84% were decision makers, with nearly 51% heads of companies (CEOs, general managers, founding members).

The cosmetics industry in its entirety was represented among our summit attendees:

• 64% manufacturers and brands,
• 21% ingredients and packaging suppliers and manufacturers,
• 8% distributors, agents, distribution networks,
• 5% service suppliers, certification organizations, associations,
• 2% students and journalists.

This first summit was a great success, as witnessed by the comments and evaluations the attendees were kind enough to communicate to us.

The first objective of the Natural Beauty Summit was to create an expert forum for the learning and sharing knowledge about the major challenges the cosmetics industry faces in terms of natural cosmetics and sustainable development and to provide real expertise to sector professionals.

• 91.25% considered the programme and talks of a very high quality,
• 37% would have liked more time allotted to certain subjects, compared to 62% who were satisfied by those chosen,
• dividing up the themes over the 3 day period was “a very good formula” for 73%; “an excellent idea” for 19%.