EDITORIAL Proud to having been fulfilling its customers most beautiful packaging dreams all over the world for 400 centuries, Groupe Pochet is progressing with determination through its ambitious transformation program, built on 4 key commitments: Combine excellence know-how, - by building on the unique alliance of its multimaterial know-how, combining a unique glass expertise, global plastic and metal know-how, the mastery of multiple decoration techniques as well as the ability to develop creative promotional items. These creative synergies are fully delivered through some of our latest iconic realizations: the majestic McQueen, the much awaited Louis Vuitton collection, or the delightfully bold Good Girl, latest creation from Carolina Herrera. - by investing massively in our production tool, with a record 60M in 2016, aiming at modernizing Saint-Saturnin (aluminum), Auriplast (electroplating) and Guimerville (glass decoration) plants in France and at reinforcing our international presence. Offer our inventiveness to support our customers creativity - through our commitment to work in a codevelopment mode with our customers, in order to provide them early in the process with industrially viable multi-material solutions and in order to shorten the development process and increase its reliability - through break-through technological solutions such as Simglass digital simulation tool - through a state-of-the-art product innovation portfolio Support our customers development, - by consolidating our global footprint -already 17 sites over 3 continents- through the radical modernization of Qualipac China and the construction of a greenfield plastic plant in Brazil - by offering our know-how to our customers on the overall Perfume & Beauty business, with a reinforced focus on skincare and make-up, through the creation of a specific Beauty entity, with a dedicated production tool and with partnerships such as the one concluded with Samwha. Act as a responsible partner, - because combining the excellence of our knowhow with a responsible approach is what appears fair to us, - through a CSR approach that we want to be exemplary and which is resulting into ambitious and quantitative commitments, related to planet protection, environmental footprint of our products, transmission of our know-how and consideration of our employees. it is therefore with determination that Groupe Pochet is pursuing its development program, driven by the ambition of being the best high-end packaging company for Perfume and Beauty worldwide and the preferred supplier of its customers. irène Gosset Group Chairwoman Tristan Farabet Group CeO
ABOUT GROUPE POCHET Groupe Pochet: excellence as a legacy. «Because the Group is striving to fulfill the packaging dreams of its customers, the most renowned perfume and beauty brands», Groupe Pochet is committed to deliver the unique alliance of its know-how, covering multiple materials, to offer innovative and integrated high-end packaging solutions for perfume and beauty. Groupe Pochet is simultaneously a global leader in its industry, with 17 sites over 3 continents, and a privately and family-owned company, with an almost four centuries-history (founded in 1623). Originally focused on glass bottles making for perfume, the Group has also acquired excellence know-how in plastics and metal and masters all decoration techniques, in order to offer to its customers integrated packaging solutions on all their core businesses: perfume, skincare and make-up. Definitely looking forward and determined to assert its leadership, the Group is committed to maintain its competitiveness and the excellence of its know-how at their highest level, through ambitious investments (about 200M in 2015-18) and through a bold innovation approach, led in partnership with its customers. Aiming at a long-term development, Groupe Pochet has naturally set Corporate and Social Responsibility at the heart of its strategy, with an ambitious and quantitative program, related to planet protection, environmental footprint of its products, transmission of its know-how and consideration of its employees. Puzzle Party 2015 - Groupe Pochet Clients expressions. Groupe Pochet Key figures About 5,000 employees worldwide, including more than 3,000 in France. 17 sites worldwide, including 10 in France, 2 in the USA, 2 in Brazil, 3 in China. Almost 500 million euros revenues in 2015, split across the different businesses. Almost 600 million pieces produced in 2015. Headquarters in Clichy. www.groupe-pochet.fr/en Glass (Pochet du Courval) With its perfect mastering of glass purity, of the external shape and internal repartition, Pochet du Courval shows a unique expertise in the luxury glass packaging industry. Putting innovation at the heart of its approach, Pochet du Courval is constantly renewing perfume, skincare and make-up creation possibilities for its customers, by always pushing technical limits further away. Promotional items and Accessories (Priminter) Priminter is offering to its customers its more than 40-years industrial tracking capability and its inventiveness to provide them with high-end and innovative packaging accessories and promotional items for perfume, skincare and make-up. Additionally to its customized offer, Priminter also displays an online standardized products offering, Gift Up, as well as specific collections related to current fashion trends. Plastics and Metal (Qualipac) in order to offer to its customers integrated solutions for perfume, skincare and make-up, Qualipac combines a perfect mastering of all the transformation and decoration techniques for plastics and metal (aluminium and zamak) with a strong capability of integrating these materials, including mechanisms or applicators. Qualipac is also recognized for its capacity to support its customers in their development across the world and for its industrial excellence. Decoration (Solev, Pochet du Courval, Qualipac) The Group is offering to its customers a large choice of decoration techniques for glass, plastics and metal, through all its entities. Solev in particular is specialized in high-end decoration techniques for perfume, cosmetics and spirits industry and offers to all the worldwide players of the industry, brands, glass-makers and plastics-makers the highest standards of quality as well as high-end robotic capabilities.
FRAGRANCE CAROLINA HERRERA GOOD GIRL Photo credits: Puig A delightfully bold expression of Groupe Pochet materials and know-how synergy With their original shape, the 30 and 80ml bottles from Pochet du Courval have made the conveying on the production lines a real challenge. Their curves with perfectly mastered dimensions are lacquered in a midnight blue colour, then silkscreen-printed and hot-stamped in gold. The multi-material spray cap of the 80ml bottle developed by Qualipac results from a complex, high-speed three piece-assembly process and is perfectly fitting the bottle s shoulders. Specific tests have been performed to ensure it functions properly. The gluing of the heel, supplied by one of our partners, gives the final touch to this iconic packaging solution, whose technical challenge resides not only in the conception and execution of the different components, but also in their optimal adjustment. DIESEL BAD Photo credits: L Oréal A touch of rock n roll for the latest fragrance of the Diesel saga The leather texture of the Pochet du Courval bottle invites us to discover it through the sense of touch, thanks to the fine engraving and details on the glass surface, resulting from a specific and innovative process of mould treatment. The mat black metallization finish from Solev reinforces the visual illusion of leather. The ultra-precise laser cutting contributes to magnifying the name and lighting up the whole bottle. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Photo credits: Alexander Mc Queen A «Couture» packaging solution from Groupe Pochet for the latest fragrance from Alexander McQueen The intense black stopper, the collar s extremely fine majestic feather pattern and the curvy bottle, delicately enhanced by an antique gold base: each component of the luxury bottle showcasing the latest fragrance from Alexander McQueen results from the alliance of Groupe Pochet know-how. Zamak has emerged as the ideal material to highlight the infinite wealth of details on the collar, produced by Qualipac. The feather blades and antique gold aspect are the result of a long line of delicate operations, including a syringe-delivered enamel decoration. The finely engraved cap with tactile effect is injected with non-visible parting line and completes the collar, made of a gold-coloured electro-plated base assembled with a signature ring varnished by Solev. The gently curved shiny deep black bottle is manufactured by Pochet du Courval. its smooth surface is highlighted by an elegant silkscreening decoration. This high-level technological challenge undertaken by Groupe Pochet also includes the various components assembly, which requires a unique and very specific expertise, taking into account all the dimensional and technical requirements of the various materials, to ensure delivery of the finest creations for the Group s customers.
SKINCARE EPURE WHAT ABOUT LOOKING AT LUXURY IN A DIFFERENT WAY? Photo credits: Groupe Pochet With epure, Groupe Pochet innovates by offering an alternative way of addressing luxury standards: elegance and sobriety, focusing on the essential with a light-glass jar. A Pochet du Courval technical prowess for the glass making, made possible thanks to the expertise and execution quality associated to innovative conception and production processes, offering for the skincare formulations a crystalline showcase with a smooth and shiny finish. The combination of flawlessness and lightness also brings luxury and environmental responsibility together, by reducing the environmental impact of the jar, which displays minor resource consumption and can be easily transported and recycled. With this complete jar and cap solution, the Beauty division of Groupe Pochet allows its customers to benefit from the Group s multimaterial expertise, in a cosmetics-dedicated way. SK-II Photo credits: Procter & Gamble Groupe Pochet showcases the SK-II Pitera Essence skincare range The prestigious Japanese premium skincare brand Sk-ii has chosen Groupe Pochet to realize its new packaging for the Masterpiece PiTeRA essence range developed by Procter & Gamble. This range comprises a luxury glass 50ml jar and 150 ml bottle from Pochet du Courval. Perfectly polished, they are embellished with a semitransparent gold liquid metallization that captures the light. The packaging boasts silkscreen printing on the front and back. The Qualipac gold-coloured anodized brushed aluminium cover completes the whole pack, whose design and finish reflect the quality and technology that make up the Sk-ii precious beauty formulas. LA MER SERUM GENAISSANCE Photo credits: La Mer Groupe Pochet creates a precious bottle for a truly exceptional serum The synergy and expertise of Groupe Pochet have been beautifully applied to the development of the bottle for the new La Mer Genaissance serum, from conception to the final assembly of the different components, this latter stage having been carried out by local North American teams. The gently curved and perfectly distributed Pochet du Courval bottle is adorned with a clear amber varnish and subtly shaded Solev metallized finish, completed with the name of the brand applied through an ultraprecise laser cutting technique.
MAKE-UP GUERLAIN «LINGERIE DE PEAU» MAKE-UP BRUSH Photo credits: Guerlain With its more than 30-year expertise in makeup accessories, meeting both customers technical and aesthetical expectations, Priminter has been the partner of the most renowned Beauty brands for the development of their specific creations as well as for declinations of in-house collections. Priminter has thus realized the elegant Guerlain Lingerie de Peau powder pink make-up brush. it is the result of a fine combination of high fibre quality and smart cutting in order to enable a perfectly uniform fluid foundation application. The Guerlain Lingerie de Peau brush is already a great success with consumers, who widely express their enthusiasm on social networks and blogs. ONE TOUCH: «ONE-TOUCH OPENING FOR ALL YOUR MAKE-UP CREATIONS» Photo credits: Groupe Pochet A simple one-hand opening with one click in an on/off mode is Qualipac proposition, combining simplicity and elegance, in order to create a packaging that can be fully customized to fit each Brand universe. By conceiving and producing this innovative gesture, Qualipac brings to its clients: - A technical heart fitted for all types of fluid make-up applications (gloss, mascara, eyeliner, concealer, nail polish ), ready to be customized depending on customers wishes. - An infinity of creations made possible thanks to the alliance of Groupe Pochet multi-material know-how: glass, metal (zamak or aluminum), plastics, as well as a large choice of decoration techniques. - A simplified project management for our customers, thanks to a perfect mastering of the conception of the various components as well as their final assembly.
PRIMINTER "CREATIONS AND TRENDS" LIGHT ON PRIMINTER PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITY Creations Priminter supports luxury and cosmetics brands with the conception, development and manufacturing of promotional items and accessories. Collections by Priminter Visiting Priminter showroom, set up within the Maison Pochet, enables you to find out more about the latest collections designed by our creative team. Stylish and modern, these collections offer high-end, innovative promotional items. - B&W, a symbol of renewal, is a classic blend of black and white with geometric shapes and bold cuts - Hex places the hexagon of Groupe Pochet at the heart of a modern and inventive range - Paracord diverts survival material into original and stylish fashion accessories - e incorporates RFiD chips for an innovative collection Priminter also places sustainable development at the heart of its promotional activity with the eco range by Priminter, which offers a selection of eco-designed products made from recycled and biodegradable PeT materials as well as make-up accessories made from bamboo. Digital solutions make Priminter offering even closer to you The Gift Up online offering by Priminter launched in June 2016 displays a selection of standardised products reducing time to market whilst maintaining a wide range of customisation options. The product offering covers all Priminter areas of expertise and is regularly enhanced with new products, new materials and new colours in order to closely follow fashion trends. in addition to the usual customized solutions offered by Priminter, this website is also a source of inspiration for our customers. Find out all about Priminter on instagram and Pinterest. instagram.com/bypriminter fr.pinterest.com/ppstyl Photo credits: Priminter Photo credits: Priminter
GROUPE POCHET SUPPORTS ITS TEAMS TALENTS, AND ILLUSTRATES LINKS BETWEEN THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY AND CREATION. Photo credits: karine Lahannier AiRAiN Glow every day Groupe Pochet teams engage their know-how of exception and their inventiveness to bring to life the most beautiful creations of the Beauty industry. karine Lahannier, a Group employee, but also a talentuous artist, has imagined a series of paintings based on the raw material we are using. This series, named Metamorphosis, suggests an artistic interpretation of our universe and opens a new perspective on our know-how. Groupe Pochet is proud to share her artworks during the not-to-be-missed Puzzle Party, on September 22nd, in la Mer room at Hôtel Fairmont, and to support the artistic initiatives of its employees, which illustrate both the passion of our work irrigating its culture and the close bounding between our industry and creation. irène Gosset Group Chairwoman Tristan Farabet Group CeO About the artist KarIne LahannIer «A feeling of vastness, allowing the spirit to travel» karine Lahannier invites us to discover the whole universe of colors she always had in her mind. Studying calligraphy, and working on translating the art of drawing lines on the canvas, the artist has developed a culture of movement and masters the fusion of shades, playing with their intensity and brightness. Other founding references for karine are the Artworks of Turner, Soulages, Rothko or the Chinese artist ZaoWou-ki. Upon Groupe Pochet s invitation, karine Lahannier has accepted to create a specific series of paintings inspired by our industry and our materials. Glass powder or sand creating texture effect and pure pigments are harmoniously combined with intense colors like soothing blue, amber, or energizing red. Depending on the variations of light, her compositions offer constantly changing shades. karine has chosen to sign her paintings on the back, so as to preserve the harmony of lines and colors, letting the viewers mind travel beyond the limits of the frame. karine has been working as a Sales Manager for the Groupe Pochet for more than 8 years. She is now an established artist, and has exhibited at the Grand show of Contemporary Art in Bastille, in 2012. She regularly presents her artworks in her own studio, in Paris.