Beauty Awards 2008 Sponsors

Allure, the first and only magazine devoted to beauty, is an insider's guide to a woman's total image. Allure investigates and celebrates beauty and fashion with objectivity and candor, and places appearance in a larger cultural context.

www.allure.com

The wo rld leader in the creation of fragrances and flavors, Givaudan has a rich heritage and an exciting future; with a vision to be the essential source of sensory innovation for their customers, driven by a mutual passion for excellence.
Givaudan's business platform, Leading Sensory Innovation™, is based on the company's wide range of capabilities on key platforms of: nature, creativity, science, and technology. Through unique sensory expertise and consumer insights, Givaudan provides customers with highly creative and signature fragrances that are key to their products' success.

www.givaudan.com

CVS/pharmacy

At CVS/pharmacy we are committed to helping women take care of themselves and those they care for.  Because of our heritage in pharmacy, we are uniquely able to combine our best assets – health and beauty – to reinvent our customers’ beauty shopping experience.  At CVS/pharmacy we are taking an integrated approach to beauty that’s virtually unseen within the industry – educating and empowering our customers by proactively sharing our expertise, resources and insight.  We are going beyond just SELLING beauty…we are REINVENTING the beauty conversation.

www.cvs.com

Crest Whitestrips Daily Whitening + Tartar Protection

For the first time, Crest Whitestrips goes beyond a white smile with new Crest Whitestrips Daily Whitening + Tartar Protection to actually protect teeth from daily tartar build-up. As the latest advancement in smile care, these new strips provide three significant benefits - protect against daily tartar build-up, whiten and protect from everyday stain build-up and provide a gentle routine for teeth sensitive to whitening.  Crest Whitestrips Daily Whitening + Tartar Protection is the brightest way to protect your smile.  Tartar protection just got beautiful! 

As the number one dentist recommended brand, Crest Whitestrips makes it easy and affordable to get a bright, white smile by using the same enamel-safe whitening ingredient dentists use to get out stains on and beneath the surface of teeth.  Since 2001, Crest Whitestrips has helped bring brilliant, beautiful, brighter, whiter smiles to more than 30 million people.  For more information, visit www.whitestrips.com.

Twenty years after revolutionizing the contact lens industry with the introduction of the first disposable soft contact lens, ACUVUE® Brand Soft Disposable Contact Lenses remain the number one brand in the world, worn by more people globally than any other contact lens brand. The ACUVUE® Brand is truly transforming the world's vision by providing an outstanding range of contact lens options to meet the vision needs and wants of just about everyone requiring vision correction.

Now sold in more than 70 countries, the ACUVUE family of lenses includes ACUVUE® ADVANCE® with HYDRACLEAR™, ACUVUE® ADVANCE® for ASTIGMATISM, ACUVUE® OASYS™ with HYDRACLEAR™ PLUS, ACUVUE® and ACUVUE® 2; 1-DAY ACUVUE®,  ACUVUE® BIFOCAL; and ACUVUE® 2 COLOURS™. 
 
For more information and to sign up for a Free* Trial Pair Certificate for ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses, visit http://cew.acuvue.com  
 
*Professional exam and fitting fees not included. Valid only while supplies last.

www.acuvue.com

WWD Beauty Biz delivers authoritative, in-depth coverage of the key issues impacting the global marketplace.  Edited for beauty industry insiders and influencers, WWD Beauty Biz is the definitive resource driving the business decisions for retail executives, the media, financial experts and Hollywood trendsetters.

www.wwd.com

Over the past 17 years, The Royal Promotion Group has established itself as the premier leader in the retail display and fixture industry.  As a full-service company, we offer a range of services, including creative design, development and manufacturing.  The Royal Promotion Group now operates as a full turn-key global manufacturer.  We offer solutions on a cost-effective basis both domestically and internationally.  RPG applies its global merchandising expertise to all categories of the mass and prestige industries; delivering newness, innovation and a point of difference to all the programs we produce.  RPG is committed to acting as a true visionary in the world of global retail merchandising.

www.royalpromo.com

Restylane® or Perlane® are cosmetic dermal fillers that replace lost volume and restore youthful contours to the skin to smooth away moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as the lines from your nose to the corners of your mouth (nasolabial folds). Restylane is the world's most used, most studied dermal filler, and has been used in over 70 countries and in more than 1.4 million treatments in theU.S.

www.restylaneusa.com

KraftWorks provides highly stylized brand communications solutions that simplify, elevate and activate products / companies. Current clients include Bali, La Prairie, Organic, Playtex, Bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker, Ritani, Joseph Ribkoff, Wonderwall by Laird Hamilton, and Voss.

www.kraftworksnyc.com

Arcade Marketing

ARCADE Marketing is widely recognized as the global leader in multi-sensory, olfactory and product sampling. With more than 100 years of innovation and service to the Fragrance, Beauty, and Consumer Package Goods industries ARCADE continues to offer excellence in sensory solutions. ARCADE offers twenty-seven patented or proprietary sampling technologies including: ScentStrip®, LiquaTouch®, DiscCover®, ScentSeal®, BeautiSeal®, BeautiTouch®, BeautiPak™, ShadeSeal®, and MagniScent; all proven to engage consumers, encourage product trial, boost brand recall, and increase sales.

www.arcadeinc.com

MaCher

As a global company with over 25 years of experience in designing and manufacturing promotional solutions, we have unrivalled expertise in connecting brands with their consumers. From gifts-with-purchase to brand reminders and packaging, MaCher is the secret weapon of many of the world’s leading companies.  MaCher is the brand behind the brands.

Our in-house design teams deliver truly unique solutions, custom made and custom designed to our clients’ precise needs. Our strategic thinking is second to none and our products cut through competitive marketplaces, capitalizing on trends to achieve remarkable results.

Success comes to the innovators. Why not let the brand behind the brands take your sales to even greater heights? Find out more at macher.com or call 1-888-622-4374 (1-888-macher4) for our new Health, Beauty & Fitness Market Solutions brochure, a collection of some of the best and brightest ideas we've created for clients around the globe.

www.macher.com

Celebrating sixteen years of leadership, HBA Global Expo (www.hbaexpo.com) continues to succeed as the leading product development event for the cosmetics, personal care, fragrance and wellness industries. Both the exhibition and educational conference focus on three key areas of business: Marketing, Technical and Naturals.

HBA Global Expo's mission is to support and educate our peers and continue to bring the world of beauty together for a more beautiful tomorrow. Join us March 4-5, 2008 for the HBA Spring Conference and September 9,10, 11, 2008 for our annual exposition and conference both at theJacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

www.hbaexpo.com

Beilis Development is a high tech, cosmeceutical laboratory based in Fair Lawn, NJ. Our specialty is in the formulation of proprietary personal care products, primarily in the skincare arena, that are innovative and unique-and make a real difference (short term and long term) in the lives of the end user.

We are pioneers in creating formulas which rival the effectiveness of dermatological procedures. Our efforts in the anti-aging category have earned a loyal following from some of the most successful skin care brands in the marketplace.

We have labs in New Jersey and Russia. In fact our Russian lab specializes in the creation of peptides that power our platform technologies and provide state of the art products.

Our collaboration with a variety of contract fillers results in shortened lead times and lower costs. We manage the entire process, ensuring optimal quality every step of the way.

From our creative approach to R&D… to our unwavering commitment to quality assurance in our manufacturing...Beilis provides marketers with vision the formulas and manufacturing services required in a most complex and competitive environment.

www.beilisdevelopment.com

VEET® helps women radiate sexy femininity through beautiful, touchably smooth skin. With its ability to provide long-lasting smoothness with no nicks or razor stubble, VEET® leaves you with touchably smooth skin, What Beauty Feels Like. VEET® is available at all mass retailers throughout the US including Target, Wal-Mart, Rite Aid, K-Mart, CVS & Walgreens.

www.reckittbenckiser.com

VIDICOM

The world's best known brands and corporations have been relying on VIDICOM for the ultimate content creation and placement on traditional and non-traditional multimedia platforms. VIDICOM's team of award-winning media strategists, writers, producers, editors, and artists, work with you to create and place your messages so they are seen and heard by millions in a targeted environment at home or on-the-go.

www.vidicom.com

NeoStrata

As the founder and leader in AHA skin care technology, the NeoStrata Company continues to advance the skin care field with scientific innovations such as polyhydroxy acids (PHAs) and lactobionic acids. Through its leading brands, NeoStrata Professional, Exuviance and Coverblend, the NeoStrata company provides consumers with highly effective, non-irritating products that reveal the skin’s natural health and beauty.

www.neostrata.com

Rpr Marketing Communications

Rpr Marketing Communications is a full-service public relations and marketing agency, specializing in Beauty & Skincare consumer products catering to mass, prestige and specialty outlets. By developing an unmatched, integrated approach to public relations and marketing, they act as an extension of their clients’ in-house communications and marketing teams. They create, develop and deliver an effective brand message with highly customized programs providing their clients with the results they need to raise consumer awareness and strengthen their brand equity.

www.rprny.com

Suite K Value Added Services is your “one-stop source” to manage all your supply chain needs. We offer a wide range of services including manufacturing, contract filling and distribution. Catering to Indie brands and new start companies, Suite K develops products and systems to provide companies with the best business opportunities.

www.suite-k.com

Raw Media Network

Raw Media Network consists of successful documentary and television series filmmakers, who offer corporate clients a compelling alternative to traditional video services. From innovative programs such as branded content and viral video campaigns to Electronic Press Kits, Event Coverage and Internal Communications films, Raw Media is the one stop shop for your marketing team.

Whether they are consulting a brand on how to get exposure on the web or producing an Electronic Press Kit, year after year, they create videos and films that get the job done for their clients in innovative and interesting ways. With a surpassing passion for excellence, meticulous attention to detail and a simple, merciless standard, Raw Media can step your communications up a notch. That’s because they always endeavor to apply a very simple standard to their work: “See it once – never forget it!”

 www.rawmedianet.com

Digital Plus is a full service pre press and digital printing lab servicing the retail, fashion, cosmetic, corporate and event planning industry with all of their pre press, digital printing and finishing requirements. We have been the leader in this industry for the past 10 years and offer an unprecedented level of service, matched with our state of the art equipment and facilities, which translates to extraordinary images and output quality.

www.digitalplus.com

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The NPD Group offers retail tracking and unmatched industry expertise for the beauty market in the U.S., France, Italy, Mexico and China. NPD's data on what is selling, where, and at what price helps makeup, skincare, and fragrance manufacturers, financial analysts, and retailers address consumers' needs and make informed business decisions.

www.npd.com

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 130,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. 
For more information, please visit www.ey.com

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