Last month, in personal care industry news, L’Oréal announced plans to take over the 50-year exclusive global license agreement for Gucci Beauty, a year ahead of schedule. 

Three months after the collapsed merger between Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and Spanish beauty group Puig, both companies are focusing on fragrance to boost their respective beauty portfolios. 

The Ukrainian government has delayed fully implementing cosmetics regulations that would align the country’s cosmetic rules with EU standards. The new rules will now take effect on July 31, 2027, instead of the original date, today, August 3, 2026. The push back gives beauty businesses an extra year to prepare. 

Recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide. The difficult-to-treat condition, which affects primarily women, is defined as two urinary tract infections (UTIs) within six months or three UTIs within the past year. They are a leading cause of outpatient antibiotic use, accounting for more than 15% of all prescriptions.

France- and US-based ag biotech company Micropep is closer to commercializing its peptide-based biofungicide Promisin af…

世界农化网中文网报道：7月31日，科迪华公布了截至2026年6月30日的第二季度及上半年财务业绩。得益于种子业务在最新需求旺盛的种质与性状技术方面的持续价值兑现（包括授权收入的增长），以及植保业务新产品需求与运营卓越的推动，公司上半年表现强劲，并据此上调了2026年全年业绩指引。同时，科迪华确认将于2026年10月1日如期完成分拆计划。

Why it matters: The decision removes one of Ipsen’s two experimental MAPK-pathway inhibitors for solid tumours and returns a clinical-stage programme to the small French biotech that discovered it.

Why it matters: BioNTech’s decision provides a powerful external endorsement of Oelkers’ record at Sobi. Oelkers did not create Sobi’s scientific foundations, but he built a much larger commercial and dealmaking organization around them, expanding the company in the U.S. and adding a succession of acquired and licensed rare disease products. BioNTech is now hiring him for a similar company-building challenge: scaling an innovation-driven biotech as it prepares to launch multiple products.