L’Oreal e-Strat Challenge 2007

Running for over seven years,L’Oreal e-Strat Challenge is an ultimate business game integrating the talents of business students from all over the world to be part of an international business challenge.

In Malaysia 148 teams from over 16 universities and colleges have registered.Out of the 148 teams, 18 were selected to proceed to the subsequent rounds of the competition, where 15 teams will represent the undergraduate category, while three teams will represent the MBA category

Since the launch of the competition in Malaysia in 2001, L’Oreal Malaysia has recruited nine employees for internship and management trainee positions here. The challenge is the first business game in the world to be accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) with the CEL accreditation, for its added value dimensionand its high educational content. The CEL accreditation certifies that the L’Oreal e-Strat Challenge is an outstanding management education programme and acknowledgesits excellent quality and valuablelearning experience.For this year’s challenge, MBA and undergraduate students are to take up the role of a L’Oreal general manager facing real business demands with the ultimate objective of “selling” their virtual company to L’Oreal top executives in Paris during the International Finals.

Students will be translating strategy into a realistic business simulation concerning all aspects of the company:pricing, production volume and capacity,research and development,marketing,advertising and brand positioning. Students will make more than150 challenging decisions and develop a realistic business plan in the course of the challenge. Next month, the top 300 teams will be selected to proceed to the semi-final stage.

The two winning teams (one MBA andone undergraduate) from each of the eight geographical zones will be announced inMarch and will attend the three-dayInternational Award ceremony in Paris.The two worldwide winners will walkaway with a trip to the destination of their choice worth 10,000 euros.

At a recent prize giving ceremony for the past e-Strat players for the 2006 edition,Couve presented vacation vouchers worth RM6,900 to the top three winning teams.The first prize winner was Team Presto(UTM), which won a RM3,000 travel voucher. The second place winner wasTeam TrioRookie (Taylor’s Business School) and third place was TeamSomeBixBoomers (MMU) who wonvouchers worth RM2,400 and RM 1,500 respectively. The participating teams of thisyear’s challenge were also present at the event.

Excerpt from The Sun

Link: L'ORÉAL BRANDSTORM 2006

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Free sample for my readers to claim

After I have blog on Skin MD Natural the day before yesterday. I received an email from Dan Mueller, President of 21st Century Formulations which distribute Skin MD Natural's skincare product to ask whether he can offer myself and my sister some bottle of Skin MD Natural 's skincare product.

I am not sure what he mean"offer". Do I need to pay for it? Or it is FOC? While I am still waiting clarification from Mr Dan Mueller. I decide to offer my free sample packets to my reader for free. If I and my sister would get a bottle for free and the fact that I still have not start testing the product yet.

Like blogger Paris beaverbanks , I offer 2 sample packs each for every reader or more depending on the respond. You just need to email your name (need not be real) and your correspondence address to:BeautyBiotech@blogspot.com and I will mail it to you on a first come first serve basis while the stock last. I will bear the postage as well.

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Skincare product sample for free?

Beauty and cosmetic blogger like to receive free sample product to test. As a male blogger in this industry. It is difficult for me to test the product as I am not a regular user of skincare nor cosmetic product.

However, I received an email last month from Pete Grimaldi to see if I would be interested in reviewing their product Skin MD Natural (www.SkinMDNatural.com). This is the first request I received since I blog on the industry.

I send an email to another beauty and cosmetic blogger MJ to informed her about the request and suggest her to email to Pete Grimaldi of Skin MD Natural to request a sample from him to test. I feel Mr Pete would be glad to do that.

MJ send me a review she found on the net here. Very kind of you, thank you , MJ. However, MJ stated : Why not you sample it 1st? I think Pete Grimaldi would like you to write a review on Skin MD Natural in your blog and possibly sell it to your customers.


The company claim that: In order for any moisture to actually improve a dry skin condition it needs to get below the second major layer of skin. In reality the only moisture that is going to reach this level is your skin's own natural moisture.

When you apply any traditional artificial moisture to the skin's surface you are often sending the wrong signal - that your skin is being adequately moisturized, when in fact it is actually dehydrated of natural moisture. This often results in reducing your skin's production of the natural moisture needed to actually resolve a dry skin condition.

Unlike artificial moisturizers, Skin MD Natural bonds with the outer most layer of skin cells to turn it into what works like an invisible shield. The company claim

I have received the sample already. I gave a packet to my sister to try it. My sister is a veteran in this industry. She once operate a beauty salon herself. However, she concentrate on whole selling business now and have vast contact with beauty salon in my home state. I ask her the other day when I meet her about the product. She said she only remember to try it once, thus, unable to give any comment yet. However, base on just one trial. She feel that the lotion absorb very fast to her skin and become very dry and clean. Unlike some other product you might feel oily and sticky.

Before I start trying the product. I research the product by go throught their website first. I found their website offer free sample to everybody. However, you have to pay for the postage. You can Send A Self Addressed Stamped Envelope To

21st Century Formulations
Free Sample Offer
9663 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Suite 860Beverly Hills,
CA 90210

or alternatively, if you are not reside in US and do not have a US's stamp. You can get 2 of these samples for only a $2.00 postage and handling fee by going to their secure Ordering Page.

The website stated "If you are not completely happy with the samples, we will even refund your $2.00 when you return the packets"

You can wait for my review within the next two weeks, hopefully. Or you can read the review by Alison McCormick,Editor of Empowerment 4 Women Online Magazine first.

Skin MD Natural in Taiwan-Star Like-品邁國際行銷有限公司 Forward Marketing International Company Ltd

Skin MD Natural in Korea


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Top 8 highest hit page on my blog in 2006

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Top 10 event in Beauty Biotech industry in Year 2006 (updated)

qnDamaged in last week's earthquake off southern Taiwan on internet access plus my own tight schedule cause the delay of such post.

However, my friend said it better late than never.

Top 10 event in Beauty Biotech industry in Year 2006

1 L’Oreal acquired The Body Shop

2 "The Body Shop" franchise in Malaysia sold by Bolton for RM80m at a Management Buyout (MBO)

3 INS legal battle with Lim Chew Yin and Yigaho

4 P&G Halts SK-II Cosmetics Sales in China

5 Pig farmer in Malaysia used banned beta agonist (BA)
Pig farmer in Malaysia used banned beta agonist because the price of a legal growth-inducing substance, Ractopamine by Eli Lily's animal health unit: Elanco, costs three times higher than Beta Agonist.

6 Mystery death of Malaysia's cosmetic surgery centres operators in China

7 F&N buying Nestle milk operation


8 Scrapped listing Hospitech Resources Bhd and GP Ocean Food on Mesdaq

Hospitech Resources Bhd and GP Ocean Food Bhd. Hospitech — manufacturer of disposable hospital equipment — made history by aborting its IPO exercise the day before it was scheduled to trade on Mesdaq on April 20. The company had raised more than RM12 million from its listing to build a new factory and repay borrowings. The IPO was oversubscribed by 18.4 times. The company voluntarily withdrew its listing after the SC started probing into its financial history upon receiving information from a whistleblower. The listing proceeds were refunded to investors. The regulator unearthed falsified documents such as sales invoices and as a result, Hospitech's managing director Jimmy Goh Kai Tong was slapped with a RM500,000 fine. Barely two months later, GP Ocean, a seafood processor, withdrew its listing plans following a probe by the SC into a possible breach in securities laws, also on a whistleblower's tip.

GP Ocean's chairman and former SC chairman Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir said at the time that the company was postponing its listing in order to strengthen the company. He has since resigned from his position. The GP Ocean case also hit the limelight because it had big name investors like the Razak Foundation and Rio Capital Sdn Bhd, which was owned by Ali, Datuk Azman Yahya and Datuk Amin Rafie Othman.

9 Song Hae-Gyo (宋慧乔) dropped as Etude spokeperson


10 Elianto fastest growing cosmetic company in Malaysia in 2006 at least in term of number of outlet

11 France honours Dr Lam who discover Nipah virus

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