Convinced that exporting is more than ever the key to the future and recovery, Cosmetic Valley has decided to restructure and strengthen the cluster’s international support services. It proposes an operational program, the Global Cosmetics Cluster-Europe, to help French companies to establish themselves internationally.
“This strategy relies in particular on the resources offered by Europe, where the cluster has been very active for several years through its European metacluster, which has been labeled ‘European Strategic Cluster Partnership’. Cosmetic Valley is thus involved in many European projects such as ‘AgriWasteValue’ (valorization of co-products from viticulture and arboriculture), ‘InnCoCells’ (innovative cosmetics from plant cells), as well as in European platforms and networks, while relying on the offices of the regions in Brussels. This commitment allows the cluster to involve French companies in the European dynamics and to propose to French SMEs the new program ‘Global Cosmetics Cluster-Europe’ to benefit from European resources,” explains Cosmetic Valley.
Global Cosmetics Cluster-Europe, coordinated by Cosmetic Valley, brings together six European cosmetics clusters. The acceleration program dedicated to the export of cosmetic SMEs is spread over 24 months until the end of August 2022.
It includes four components:
• Market knowledge
• Skills development (training on internationalization and awareness, coaching…)
• Business development and partnership (marketplace, benchmarking missions and events)
• Financing opportunities
This program is available free of charge to all French SMEs. Five strategic markets are targeted: South Korea, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, India and Mexico. …
