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Calvin cosmetics.


Markwins International Corp., the cosmetics cosmetics, preparations externally applied to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes. The use of body paint for ornamental and religious purposes has been common among primitive peoples from prehistoric times (see body-marking).  company behind the mass-market makeup makeup

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 brand Wet 'n' Wild, is going upscale with a licensing deal to make and distribute Calvin Klein Noun 1. Calvin Klein - United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942)
Calvin Richard Klein, Klein
 beauty products.

The deal comes after a lengthy search by Markwins to find an available department store makeup brand to license. The City of Industry-based company had bid to license the French brand Lanvin, but lost out to New York-based Inter Parfums Inc.

"We were looking, and Calvin Klein was looking for Looking for

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 someone to do their make-up Make-up

The amount of deficiency when a cash flow or capital item is deficient. For example, an interest make-up relates to the interest amount above a ceiling percentage.
. They were probably one of the few fashion houses that didn't have makeup in their portfolio," said Jeffrey Ten, Markwins' president and general manager of CK Calvin Klein Beauty, the name for the Calvin Klein cosmetics label.

Ten called the licensing agreement "long-term," but wouldn't disclose the exact terms of the deal. Markwins plans to produce Calvin Klein cosmetics in the U.S. and is working to contract with a manufacturing plant.

The Calvin Klein products are expected to hit the market in spring 2007 and will retail from $20 to $25 in 150 U.S. locations and an estimated 100 stores in Europe and Asia. Markwins' Wet 'n' Wild products retail starting at 99 cents at drugstore chains such as Walgreen Co.

With the Calvin Klein licensing deal, Markwins is further reaching beyond its traditional business of cosmetics combination sets or small kits with several makeup products. That strategy shift led to the licensing deal with Calvin Klein, as well as the recent acquisitions of AM Cosmetics, which owned the makeup brands Wet 'n' Wild, Black Radiance and Tropez, and Soho Cosmetics, a Montreal-based cosmetics manufacturer.

Staff reporter Rachel Brown Rachel Brown (born July 2 1980) is an English footballer, currently playing as goalkeeper for Everton Ladies and England Women.

After a long spell out with injury, Brown returned to the England team against Sweden in the last group game of Women’s Euro 2005.
 can be reached by phone at (323) 549-5225, ext. 224, or by email at rbrown@labusinessjournal.com.
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Title Annotation:MARKETPLACE
Author:Brown, Rachel
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 26, 2005
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