Professional Skin-Care Sales Projected To Outpace Market Through 2014
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Though sales of professional skin-care products declined in the U.S. in 2009, the segment is expected to grow 5.6 percent annually through 2014, outpacing sales in the greater skin-care market, according to Kline Group's Karen Doskow
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