Arizona Natural Resources acquires Contract Filling, expanding fragrance and deodorant portfolio

19 Aug 2022 --- Subsidiary of CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), Arizona Natural Resources (ANR), has acquired Contract Filling (CFI). This marks ANR’s geographic extension to the East Coast in the US, along with an expansion in product portfolio by adding fragrances and deodorants.

“The addition of cologne, perfume and deodorant product manufacturing enables us to deliver a more comprehensive beauty care platform for our customers,” Christine Staples, CEO of ANR, tells PersonalCareInsights.

“Integrating the CFI team and facilities into our culture will provide customers with access to an expanded platform of coast-to-coast customized formulation and manufacturing sites. In addition, we can offer many more product development and production resources – from cologne, perfume and deodorant to haircare, skincare, body care and beyond.” 

Future plans
ANR has announced an interest to continue pursuing complementary acquisitions and expansion in the personal care and beauty market, as well as increased investments in infrastructure, technology and human expertise.

Staples explains that the goal going forward is to optimize the expertise of the two teams “to deliver more efficient formulation and manufacturing capabilities.”

ANR is focusing on dedicating the combined research and development resources to formulate and source functional ingredients for their product lines.“Since we know many customers are shared across the full spectrum of our product lines, our first priority is to create a comprehensive go-to-market approach tailored to each partner’s product marketing mix.”

CFI represents the fourth addition to CORE’s ANR platform, increasing its production space to more than 800,000 square feet with 70 filling lines across four FDA-registered cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) compliant facilities in Arizona, California, Nebraska and New Jersey.

Functional solutions
Keeping up with the industry and environmental need for sustainable solutions, ANR is also focusing on dedicating the combined research and development resources to formulate and source functional ingredients for their product lines.

“Consumer demand for beauty products that incorporate high-quality, customized ingredients that address health and beauty concerns has never been higher,” Staples remarks.

Another evidence of personalization driving the beauty industry’s future is the launch of L’Occitane start-up brand Duolab’s Online Skin Diagnosis tool in partnership with Revieve.

Sampo Parkkinen, CEO and founder at Revieve, informed that there is a growing appetite for information among highly engaged beauty consumers who have become more tech-savvy and are willing to dive deeper into skincare education to choose what’s necessary and best for them. 

“Personalized and customized skincare is no longer just an option for customers; it’s the norm,” asserts Parkkinen. 

PersonalCareInsights recently published a special report on how apart from customization, upcycled ingredients is becoming the industry standard for cosmetic and fragrance space.

“Over recent years, we’ve seen a shift in consumer interest from organic and all-natural claims to more sustainability-related claims, like upcycling,” Bianca McCarthy, global marketing manager of lipotec active ingredients at Lubrizol Life Science remarked.

“These days, consumers are more conscious of the impact of natural ingredients on Earth’s resources in a movement we refer to as Pro-Zero Waste. Here, we are seeing a shift toward an interest in the global circular economy, led by the use of upcycled ingredients, where natural resources are better used and waste is eliminated.”Upcycled ingredients, such as rice husk, are becoming more common in the personal care industry.

Recognizing this consumer demand, recently, Dow partnered with BSB Nanotechnology to expand bio-based, low-carbon ingredients for makeup formulation, introducing an upcycled rice husk cosmetic powder to the market.

Recent partnership in spotlight

This week, renewable chemistry technology business Avantium reported that it struck a conditional offtake agreement with one of the largest manufacturers of luxury goods, LVMH Group (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy).

Through this offtake deal, LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics Houses obtained a predetermined amount of the high-quality, plant-based polyethylene furanoate material from Avantium’s Flagship Plant for the packaging of its cosmetics.

LVMH Beauty also signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with material provider Origin Materials to purchase carbon-negative PET for fragrance and cosmetics packaging.

“This partnership reinforces the eco-design strategy of our products and will allow our houses to reinforce the objectives they have set themselves concerning the progressive elimination of virgin plastics of fossil origin,” Mickael Soria, head of press relations at LVMH, previously told PersonalCareInsights.

By Radhika Sikaria