Market Research Reports: Personal Care

This report series focuses on natural personal care ingredients and investigates the supply and procurement practices operating within this developing market. This program is specifically designed to assist suppliers and distributors of personal care ingredients, addressing such questions as:

• What is the size of the natural personal care ingredients market by product category?
• What is the growth projection for natural ingredients?
• What are the pricing differences for natural and synthetic ingredients?
• Who are the leading natural ingredient suppliers?
• – What products do they offer?
• – What are their strengths, and how do they position themselves?
• How do the brand manufacturers define natural?
• What are the main decision-making criteria for a purchaser of natural personal care ingredients?
• What are the current unmet needs for manufacturers of natural finished products?
• What is the outlook for natural finished products?

Market Overview

Market Quantification

Competitive Landscape

Outlook

Product Overview
– Grades and prices
– Regulatory overview

Market Quantification
– Volume/value consumption

Competitive Landscape
– Industry structure
– Supplier market share
– Porters five forces
– Major customers

Appraisal and Outlook
– Growth drivers and constraints
– Research and development activity
– Consumption forecast

Supplier Benchmarking
– Supplier sales summary
– Best practice

Decision Making Criteria

Customer Unmet Needs

Natural Personal Care Ingredients 2011: Multi-regional Market Analysis and Opportunities will provide a detailed independent appraisal of the natural personal care ingredients market in two key regions: the United States and Europe. Research will focus on personal care ingredients that play a role within the formulation of the finished product, rather than cosmetics actives which provide a benefit to the consumer. Ingredient categories assessed within this report series include:

• Conditioning polymers
• Emollients
• Emulsifiers
• Preservatives
• Rheology control agents
• Surfactants

Providing context to the natural personal care ingredient market, top-line data will be provided for each ingredient category, along with growth drivers and restraints, product trends and forecasting. The distribution channel will also be investigated, with identification of the key decision making criteria for selection of an ingredient and supplier, unmet customers needs will also be assessed, and best practice in the industry will be explored.

The base year for this program will be 2011 and will include forecasts to the year 2016.

Subscribing to this report series will provide detailed understanding of the evolution of the naturals market for each significant product group, enabling marketing and product managers and directors within the personal care ingredients industry to identify and maximize opportunities.

This program will provide subscribers with:

• A reliable and independent assessment of emerging personal care ingredients markets enabling each subscriber to understand the context in which their business operates
• Identification of key growth by product and application to enable development of targeted sales and marketing strategies to exploit high growth areas
• An appraisal of market trends and supply and demand drivers, enabling subscribers to position their products to maximize trends within the market
• Competitive intelligence for use in benchmarking and to enable subscribers to identify best practice in the industry

Providing context to the natural personal care ingredient market, top-line data will be provided for each ingredient category, along with growth drivers and restraints, product trends and forecasting. The distribution channel will also be investigated, with identification of the key decision making criteria for selection of an ingredient and supplier, unmet customers needs will also be assessed, and best practice in the industry will be explored.

The base year for this program will be 2011 and will include forecasts to the year 2016.

Kline is unmatched in our ability to gather hard-to-get market and competitive intelligence with a high degree of confidence. Kline’s market analysis approach places the principal emphasis on primary research techniques to ensure that the foundation of business intelligence and insight is accurate, current, and reliable.

During the course of field research, Kline’s professional staff of industry experts will conduct in-depth discussions and personal interviews with a wide range of knowledgeable industry participants and opinion leaders, including leading manufacturers and marketers of personal care ingredients, leading end users and representatives from pertinent government agencies and trade associations.

This approach has proven to be the most effective and reliable approach to obtaining accurate market data, capturing expert insights, and identifying business opportunities. Primary research will comprise 95% of the overall research methodology for this report.

In addition, this analysis will be supplemented by secondary research drawn from the review of suppliers' product literature and price lists; a search of recent trade and technical literature; Internet sources; and analysis of statistical data from government, industry, and trade associations and agencies.