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Intercos develops and manufactures makeup, skincare, hair and body care and fragrance for more than 700 brands, from global houses to new names. Since 1972, from Agrate Brianza, Italy.
Pictured: a drawdown card, where a lab judges colour and texture before anything is filled.
Figures from the Intercos corporate overview, at 31 December 2025.
Think of the makeup lines from the world's biggest names in cosmetics. Imagine that behind them lies the talent in research and innovation from a unique Italian company.
Dario Ferrari founded Intercos in 1972 as the first company to develop, manufacture and market cosmetics for other brands. Today it is the world leader in outsourced colour cosmetics, with a market share of more than 11%1, and the leading Western company in outsourced skincare by sales.
Its customers are multinationals, emerging brands and retailers, including almost all the main players in colour cosmetics, skincare, hair and personal care, and fragrance.
Intercos develops and makes products in four categories. Technological innovation and formula advancement drive every one of them.
From formula engineering and textural innovation to new finishes and new ways to apply them.
New textures carried by high-performance ingredients, with Swiss research at CRB and active-ingredient work at Vitalab.
Body, hair and personal care, a category the Group has made since Cosmint joined in 2017.
The Fragrance Hall, opened in 2022: 3,000 m² for olfactory development, with technical and customisation teams under one roof.
Intercos covers every stage between an idea and a finished product: raw-material research and testing, formulation, compatibility and market studies, packaging design, and production at scale.
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Trend scouting across fashion, style and products, and a consumer culture built from inside each market, so a brief can start ahead of the trend.
16 commercial offices keep client teams close to every market.
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Blue-sky and applied research develop proprietary raw materials and bioactives, often borrowing technologies from other industries.
About 5% of sales goes to innovation each year.
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Interconnected labs turn the idea into a formula and the formula into a shade, with colour development and customisation for each brand.
More than 2,100 new formulations developed in 2025.
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A creative team designs the component alongside the formula: compacts, kits, palettes, cushions, lipsticks, sticks, pencils and dispensing pens; pots, jars, tubes, bottles, droppers and pumps.
Functionality, materials and sustainable design are part of the brief from the start.
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Fifteen plants make the finished product, held to the same standards of technology, safety, quality and timeliness wherever it is made.
7 plants in Europe, 2 in North America, 1 in South America and 5 in Asia, with 220,000 m² of floor space.
More than 700 customers: multinationals, emerging brands and retailers.
Intercos Concept is a multi-talented team of beauty insiders offering 360° marketing support around your product and your brand.
Global capacity with a local approach: labs and plants in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and an open-innovation network that brings in ideas and technologies from other industries.
Contact the makeup team Contact the skincare teamComplete ranges across makeup, skincare, hair and body care and fragrance, with one of the broadest portfolios of finished products and kits in the industry.
Start a range"Intercos' commitment to Research & Development is the foundation of our company and represents the future success of yours."
At 31 December 2025, from the Intercos corporate overview.
16 commercial offices, 12 R&D centres and 15 plants. Choose a type to see where they are.
Europe in detail
Intercos EuropeDovera, Italy
CosmintOlgiate Comasco, Italy
Tatra Spring PolskaGarwolin, Poland
Intercos AmericaCongers, New York, USA
Intercos do BrasilAtibaia, São Paulo, Brazil
Intercos KoreaOsan, South Korea
Intercos TechnologySuzhou, China
Intercos Technology, second plantSuzhou, China
Intercos CosmeticsSuzhou, China
Interfila CosmeticsShanghai, China
Plant photographs from intercos.com, taken in 2019 and 2020.
Each company brings its own specialism, from Swiss skincare research to active ingredients and whole-body care.
Agrate Brianza, Italy, since 1972
Colour cosmetics, delivery systems and pencils, nail lacquers and skincare for the biggest international brands.
Puidoux, Switzerland, since 2006
Exemplifying Swiss excellence through skincare innovation.
Olgiate Comasco, Italy, since 2017
All-over beauty solutions: body, hair and personal care.
Naples, Italy, since 2010
Changing cosmetics through active-ingredient technology.
Monza, Italy
Leading the global beauty industry through advanced approaches.
More than fifty years of making beauty for other people's names.
Dario Ferrari founds the first company to develop, manufacture and market cosmetics for other brands.
Colour cosmetics lead the way, with growth into the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
A joint venture starts Intercos' own cosmetic pencil production.
Intercos America is established. Colour-cosmetics production in Asia follows in 1997.
A plant opens in Congers, New York, then in China in 2003.
CRB joins the Group, bringing Swiss skincare research.
Vitalab opens for active ingredients, and CRB Benelux for exploratory research.
Prisma Shine launches. Intercos do Brasil is established.
A joint venture with Shinsegae International brings Korean face-product expertise.
Cosmint joins for body, hair and personal care, and Drop Nail adds nail lacquers.
Intercos takes full ownership of Intercos Korea, set to become its main R&D hub in Asia.
Intercos lists on Euronext Milan.
The Fragrance Hall opens: 3,000 m² for olfactory development.
A new R&D lab and commercial office open in India.
Capacity doubles at the South Korea plant, and a plant in China is enlarged.
The founder still chairs the Group, beside a management team drawn from the world's leading beauty houses.
Founder and Executive Chairman
Started the business in 1972 and has led the Group he founded for more than 50 years.
Chief Executive Officer
CEO since 2016, after leading Guerlain, Sephora EMEA and Coty Beauty.
Group Chief Innovation Officer, Makeup and Skincare
With Intercos since 1994, after product development at The Estée Lauder Companies.
Group Chief Commercial Officer
With Intercos since 2005, and chairman of Intercos India.
More than 6,300 people work at Intercos. Our vision: to anticipate the future of beauty with a visionary approach, an agile attitude and a commitment to simplicity.
See open positionsListed on Euronext Milan since 2021. In 2025, net sales reached €1,047.2 million and adjusted EBITDA €156 million, both up 12% a year on average since listing.
"Intercos regards sustainability and CSR as a top priority, fully committing to providing customers with products that are qualified ethically and environmentally."
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