15. Access Business Group
(a wholly owned subsidiary of Alticor, Inc.)
Ada, MI
www.accessbusinessgroup.com
Beauty Sales: $1.8 billion
Corporate Sales: $7.1 billion

Key Personnel: Al Koop, chief operating officer, Access Business Group; Steve Van Andel, chairman, Alticor; Doug DeVos, president, Alticor.

Products/Brands: Personal care and cosmetics products under brands including Artistry, E.Funkhouser New York (EFNY), Tolsom (men’s skin care), Body Series, G&H, Satinique.

New Products: Artistry Pure White, Artistry Treatage, Bricolage Lash Defining Kit, Constellations Rhinestone eye and lip palettes.

Comments: The beauty and health categories are Alticor’s fastest growing lines, for which Access Business Group takes much of the credit, with sales hitting $1.8 billion in 2007. The Artistry brand added its most premium skin care product yet, Artistry Treatage, which is said to reenergize skin so that it looks 15 years younger. Also in 2007, Artistry revised its Pure White line. E. Funkhouser New York, a cosmetic line for the “young at heart,” launched two collections in 2007: Bricolage, which introduced many new product categories, including a professional Lash Defining Kit, Eye Color Sticks, and Lip Plumper; and Constellations, which launched with a collection of glittering products inspired by the nighttime sky.
   

Access Business Group’s Artistry Essentials skin care line was recognized for package excellence with an award from AmeriStar’s 2007 package competition.

Access Business Group (ABG)’s contract manufacturing division produced more than 200 million personal care and home care products for its customer base in 2007. In addition, the company produced 11 million cosmetic cartons.
  
In 2008, the company’s Artistry Crème L/X received HBA’s International Packaging Design Award for Prestige Skin Care. Artistry Essentials  received an award for package excellence in AmeriStar’s 2007 package competition.