Women’s Wear Daily posted their top 100 in a recent article (shared below) and network marketing companies mark 15 of the top 100.
The big keep getting bigger. One look at Beauty’s Top 100, our annual ranking of the world’s biggest beauty companies, and the strength of the key players is plain to see. In all, 2013 beauty revenues amounted to $204.61 billion, up 1.9 percent year-on-year.
French beauty giant L’Oréal alone generated nearly 15 percent of total sales made by all the cosmetics manufacturers, widening the gap with second-rankedUnilever by a massive $9.19 billion, versus the $8.18 billion in the prior year. Unilever also gained substantially on number three, Procter & Gamble, while fourth-placed Estée Lauder Cos. passed the $10 billion revenue mark for the first time.
But the news isn’t just about the status quo getting stronger. This year’s ranking is peppered with new players, too, including Allergan, the pharmaceutical firm best known as the maker of Botox that strengthened its skin-care muscle with the December 2012 acquisition of SkinMedica. The move came in a year during which many beauty companies are more aggressively pursuing dermatological products; Unilever’s Dove and Elizabeth Arden were among firms recently introducing derm-inspired lines, for instance. Another newcomer to the ranking is Burberry, which in less