With the world’s population expected to reach 7.6 billion by 2020, global beauty companies continue to fine-tune their strategies, making constant adjustments as they keep one eye on new markets and the other on established ones. Here, we zero in on how the Top 20 saw their way through 2011, and what their visions are for years to come.

By Jamie Matusow, Editor

With a competitive market bursting with formulas using highly sophisticated and/or natural ingredients, packaging suppliers must satisfy a number of specific demands and requirements.

By Leah Genuario, Contributing Editor

Marketers and suppliers are going to great lengths to give packaging exciting new twists, sure to capture the attention of a brand's customers—and their wallets.

By Marie Redding, Associate Editor

Brands are taking different design approaches to bottles, tubes and jars, in an effort to convey product attributes to consumers.

By Marie Redding, Associate Editor

The obsession with skin care products has given the packaging business a big boost.

By Regina Maiseviciute, industry analyst, Euromonitor International

Round bottles and bamboo collars are used to convey this brand's unique formulation.

By Marie Redding, Associate Editor

How Balm Chicky Balm Balm created its new, patented 'Friend End.'

By Marie Redding, Associate Editor

The fight is now on to take ownership of color in ever-more daring and inventive ways.

By Sophie Maxwell, Pearlfisher

Manufacturers are launching male-specific brands, despite the fact that they were previously associated with being a woman's product.

By Lui Meng Chow, Mintel research analyst

Benjamin Punchard, senior global packaging analyst, Mintel

Fragrance executives 'toasted and roasted' the former CEO of Coty, Inc as they paid tribute to his extraordinary skills used to build today's fragrance industry.

By Jamie Matusow, Editor

The 2012 London Olympics resulted in a prestige beauty boost in the UK.

By June Jensen, director for NPD Group Beauty UK