The remarkable growth in the French cosmetics and perfume export industry reflects a global appreciation for the country’s beauty and fragrance offerings. In 2023, the sector not only exhibited substantial progress but also achieved an historic milestone, surpassing the €20 billion mark for the first time.
Cosmetics is a key sector in Normandy. We are a leading player in the French ‘Cosmetics Valley’ hub. Our strength lies not simply in any one part of the sector, but in our ability to provide a complete end-to-end value-chain across the whole sector.
In the perfume sector, packaging holds a special importance. Normandy, and particularly the Bresle Valley, stands out for its advantages for this industry:
- The first international cluster dedicated to luxury packaging: The Glass Valley.
- Innovation: companies that excel at working with glass, giving the bottle original shapes, testifie to Normandy’s capacity for groundbreaking designs
- Eco-friendly practices: cosmetics companies are evolving to limit their environmental impact, by embracing the 3Rs concept (reduce, reuse, and recycle). They work daily to minimize their environmental footprint.
Cosmetics is a key sector in Normandy.
We are a leading player in the French ‘Cosmetics Valley’ hub. Our strength lies not simply in any one part of the sector, but in our ability to provide a complete end-to-end value-chain across the whole sector. From cutting-edge academic research, alongside a host of different sized companies with superb production facilities – from start-ups and SMEs right through to world-renowned multinationals – as well as logistics and packaging expertise, including the Glass Valley hub, all the way to facilitating customs clearance for both imports and exports.
Normandy provides for all these steps in the value-chain, and this ability stretches right across all the sub-sectors of the cosmetic field, with expertise in primary materials and preparation, skin care, make-up, perfumes as well as hygiene and body products.
This makes Normandy the complete package for cosmetics companies looking to invest in the sector. And all of this within a framework of decarbonising the sector, while still maintaining and generating value.
