Headed by Shinzo Maeda since April 2005, Shiseido is the world's 6th-largest cosmetic group.

Operating in 60 countries, including 24 in Europe, Shiseido earns 85% of its turnover in Asia and employs over 24,000 people.

Shiseido was founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1872, four years after the start of the Meiji era. Arinobu Fukuhara, founder, and former Chief Pharmacist of the Japanese Navy, was the first to introduce Japan to Western-style pharmaceuticals.

For more than a century, Shiseido has gained unique expertise in creating products that combine tradition and science, the wisdom of the Orient and the vision of the West. Today, Shiseido caters to the cosmetic well-being of women and men around the world.

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