1983
The Bollati family starts research and development lab and production for private labelquality products.
Founded in Parma, Italy in 1983 by the Bollati Family, Davines Group started as a research laboratory, producing high-end products for renowned cosmetic companies worldwide.
After a decade of further developing our expertise, we began creating our own brands Davines profesional hair care products exclusively for salons, and in 1996 we launched [ comfort zone ] skin care for premier spas and beauty salons. Our skin care offer expanded in 2018 with the new Skin Regimen brand specifically targeting premature aging. The Group is now a B Corp and has a multicultural team fom all over the workd and has an international presence in more than 90 countries. In addition to the headquarters in Parma - at the Davines Village - we have offices in New York, London, Paris, Mexico City, Deventer (Netherlands), and Hong Kong.
“BY CREATING BEAUTY SUSTAINABLY, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LIVE & WORK, AND OF THE THINGS THEY LOVE.”
The Bollati family starts research and development lab and production for private labelquality products.
The company launches Davines hair care brand.
International distribution begins.
The [ comfort zone ]professional skin care brand is launched
The New York branch opens.
The “Carta Etica” is drafted: a collection of values that guides the relationships between employees within the company.
The Paris branch opens.
The Parma office starts to
power itself with electricity
from renewable sources.
The first CO2 offset project
is activated.
The Mexico city and London branches open.The “Sustainable Beauty Manifesto" is drafted.
The “Charter for
sustainable research” is
drafted.
First edition of the
“Sustainable Beauty Day”
The “Packaging Research
Charter” is drafted: including the sustainable, ecodesign guidelines we follow to select our packaging components.
The Holland, Germany and
Belgium offices open.
First edition of “I Sustain
Beauty”
The collaboration with Slow
Food begins.
The Hong Kong branch opens. Construction work on the Davines Group Village begins. The group obtains the BCorp certification.
Opening of the Davines
Village.
The /skin regimen/ line
becomes a brand in itself.
The “New blossoming of the
Carta Etica” is presented.
Davines receives the “Best
For the Environment” award
from B Lab.
Davines becomes a Benefit Corporation.
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In 2016 the Davines group joined the B Corp family with a score of 99. In 2020, thanks to the efforts made, we recertified improving our score up to 117.4 points!
Beauty + Sustainability, the inspirational concepts for each of our projects — from formulation to design, to ethics and customers.
A collection of our shared ethics and company guidelines, created by all members of the group.
It allows the reflection of ethics in everyday life by contributing to the working wellness of everyone. First written in 2005 by a philosopher and Davines employees, it does not containrules or instructions, but rather proposals for desirable ethical behavior at work to obtain a better quality of life for all. The importance of sharing of a value system that guides and inspires all those who work in the company meant that we needed to focus on realigning our values.
2018 saw the creation of The Carta Etica's "New Blooming" which represents an evolution of what is now the company's ethical DNA.
Watch the videoWe have rewritten our way of doing business, looking at business as a positive force capable of generating profit and at the same time creating a virtuous impact on people and the environment.
After the certification obtained in 2016, we decided to align our objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), defined in the UN Agenda 2030, projecting them into our corporate strategy. This gave us a goal for continuous improvement that is expressed in the activation of new projects, and in defining objectives and monitoring results that have been presented in our annual Sustainability Report.
At Davines Group every product is born from intuition and is processed with an artisan spirit using the most advanced cosmetic technologies.
For our formulations we select natural-origin ingredients, of up to 99%, and produce them with energy from renewable resources, electric energy and minimizing the environmental impact, inspired by the ideal of Sustainable Beauty as an inseparable unity between Beauty and Good. Ecodesign guides our packaging materials: we prefer recycled or biobased components, and we neutralize the CO2 emissions through reforestation. Since 2022 all our products are certified Plastic Neutral by Plastic Bank.
Davines Group is present in more than 90 Countries in the world, through branches and distributors.