Berlin Cosmetics GmbH & Co. KG

About Berlin Cosmetics

Berlin Cosmetics GmbH & Co. KG was a cosmetics manufacturer based in Berlin. The company emerged from the lead operation of the VEB Kosmetik-Kombinat Berlin founded in 1981, which, under the name VEB Berlin Kosmetik, held a monopoly on cosmetic products in the GDR with around 1100 employees and covered about 95 percent of the corresponding domestic retail sales. After the dissolution of the combine in 1990, the operation was transferred to Berlin Kosmetik GmbH and privatized; the company focused on a combination of contract manufacturing and the development of its own products. Taken over in 1997 after insolvency by Rolf Giesen and renamed Berlin Cosmetics, the Berlin plant was closed in 2006. Since then, the brands have been used by the MAXIM Markenprodukte Group.

Site

Berlin

Industries

Cosmetics industry

Locations

Inside the production

History

1. 1981

   Founding of the VEB Kosmetik-Kombinat Berlin after the dissolution of the VVB Leichtchemie; lead operation VEB Berlin Kosmetik with around 1100 employees

2. 1990

   Dissolution of the combine as a result of reunification; transfer of VEB Berlin Kosmetik into Berlin Kosmetik GmbH

3. 1993

   Acquisition of Berlin Kosmetik GmbH by Raymond Learsy from the Treuhandanstalt

4. 1997

   Insolvency in the autumn; acquisition by Rolf Giesen and renaming to Berlin Cosmetics

5. 2006

   Closure of the Berlin plant