Knowlton Development Corporation Inc (“kdc/one”), a leader in custom formulation, packing design and manufacturing solutions for beauty, personal care, and homecare brands has entered into a strategic joint venture with the Clarion Group, a renowned contract manufacturer of beauty, personal, home care and food products and decorative tin packaging. This deal will create kdc/one Clarion Beauty Pvt Ltd which will help beauty and personal care brand owners to grow in the rapidly expanding Indian market. They will offer affordable solutions in beauty packaging, manufacturing, and formulation innovation to improve customer experience. 

This collaboration will include packaging and manufacturing for skincare, colour cosmetics, and personal care. It will benefit from Clarion’s local market formulation and kdc/one’s global formulation expertise. In the coming year, they will develop and build a new manufacturing unit in Gujarat to produce injection molded and metallised beauty packaging.

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According to Sandra Wisniewski, Global President of Beauty and Personal Care at kdc/one, this venture will help brand owners expand their businesses in the Indian market. Brands will benefit from customised packaging design, quality, and development credentials of both companies. Clarion already has a strong foothold in India with an experienced local management team. K N Lakshmanan, Chairman of the Clarion Group added that both the companies complement each other in manufacturing, formulation, and packaging and have a shared ethos of offering high-quality, innovative products and services with regulatory compliance. Together, they aim to offer brand owners the necessary support to fulfill their vision. 

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