The European Commission fines International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and its French division €15.9m after a senior employee deleted WhatsApp messages with a competitor during an inspection, part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into four major flavors and fragrance manufacturers.

Bumble and bumble follows Too Faced and Clinique, also with their own storefronts within Amazon’s Premium Beauty space. Lauder notes the broader reach and the importance of meeting consumers where they already are shopping.

Cosmetics Europe re-elected Isabelle Martin as President and Birgit Huber as VP during the trade association’s General Assembly in Brussels 20 June. The EU Green Deal and its numerous entanglements continue to loom large in the group’s strategic programming.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to settle with 43 state attorneys general over products that previously contained talc, planning to pay $700m in four payments through 2027. The settlement is not an admission of guilt, and J&J stands by the safety of the products in question, which it no longer markets with talc.

The Personal Care Products Council’s "Beauty of Impact, Economic & Social Contributions Report 2024" illustrates the strength of the US personal-care industry, which added $308.7bn to gross domestic product and accounted for 4.6 million jobs in 2022.

The BBB National Programs, Inc.’s Children’s Advertising Review Unit reminds advertisers its Advertising and Privacy Guidelines extend to the use of AI in ads for children and points them to its recent warning that it will ‘strictly enforce’ those guidelines.