COSMETICS CONSULTANCY TRAINING

What COSMETICS CONSULTANCY TRAINING does

Cosmetics Consultancy Training (CCT) is a France-based professional services firm founded in 2021 by Estelle Chevreton that provides consulting, training, and custom digital solution development for the cosmetics industry's R&D and regulatory functions. The company sells six interconnected service lines — software comparison and selection (PLM, ERP, regulatory tools), deployment preparation (data cleansing, user manuals, functional validation), role-based training and usage optimization, integration and custom module development (with ERP/QMS systems), expert-voice marketing and sales support for software vendors, and bespoke digital tool development — addressed to five primary buyer segments: laboratories and manufacturers, cosmetic brands, contract manufacturers, raw material suppliers, and software vendors. The firm does not sell a proprietary software platform; its value is delivered through the founder's 20+ years of cosmetics industry experience spanning formulation labs, raw materials, subcontracting, and software sales across France, UK, USA, and Italy, augmented by a mobilizable network of specialist developers, business specialists, and trainers engaged on a project basis. Revenue is generated through project-based consulting fees and multi-year retainer arrangements, with pricing tailored to engagement scope; named enterprise clients include FAREVA, Groupe Solabia, Chromavis, Make Up Atelier Paris, and software vendor InFlows. The company operates from France, is privately held and bootstrapped with no external institutional funding, and markets primarily through a bilingual (French/English) website, the founder's LinkedIn presence, and client testimonials and referrals.

Name

COSMETICS CONSULTANCY TRAINING

Legal name

Cosmetics Consultancy Training

Website

https://cosmeticsconsultancytraining.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Cosmetics Consultancy Training is a France-based, founder-operated consultancy providing software selection, deployment, training, and custom digital development services to cosmetics brands, manufacturers, subcontractors, raw material suppliers, and software vendors across Europe and North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cosmetics Industry Consulting

NAICS

Marketing Consulting Services (541613), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Beauty Retail, Product Knowledge & Sales Training (EDAOALAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Salon Business, Management & Retail Training (HSALANAK)

Keywords

• Cosmetics consulting
• Regulatory compliance
• PLM software selection
• Formulation R&D
• Digital transformation

Headquarters

HQ city

Not disclosed

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Consulting fees for software selection advisory, deployment preparation, training, and integration coordination services. Billed as project-based engagements or retainer arrangements depending on scope and duration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cosmetics Consultancy Training provides specialized consulting, training, and custom digital solution services for the cosmetics industry. The company advises cosmetics brands, manufacturers, contract manufacturers, raw material suppliers, and software vendors on selecting, deploying, training, and integrating digital tools such as PLM, ERP, and QMS systems tailored to R&D and regulatory workflows. Services are delivered in French and English, leveraging the founder's 20+ years of cosmetics industry experience spanning formulation labs to technical solution sales.

Product overview

Cosmetics Consultancy Training is a consulting services company (not a software product company) offering specialized advisory services for the cosmetics industry's digital transformation. Founded in 2021 by Estelle Chevreton, the company provides six interconnected service offerings: Software Comparison & Selection (helping brands, manufacturers, and subcontractors choose appropriate PLM/ERP solutions), Deployment Preparation (data structuring, documentation, functional validation), Training & Usage Optimization (role-based training for R&D, regulatory, production, and quality teams), Integration & Custom Development (coordinating ERP/QMS integration and bespoke module development), Marketing & Sales Strategy (expert voice services for software vendors), and Custom Solutions Development (end-to-end bespoke tool development when market software is insufficient). These services share a unifying focus on cosmetics R&D and regulatory expertise applied to digital projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Software Comparison & Selection Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Successful software implementation leading to new client acquisitions for software vendor

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Veeva Systems: Major cloud software provider serving life sciences and adjacent regulated industries, including cosmetics R&D and quality. CCT clients frequently consider Veeva as an alternative or complement to point solutions like Coptis, making it a directly relevant ecosystem incumbent.
• Dassault Systèmes: Provider of the ENOVIA/3DEXPERIENCE PLM platform, which is a frequent option for cosmetics manufacturers evaluating enterprise digital tooling. As a much larger incumbent, it competes for the same software-selection mandates that CCT supports.
• Centric Software: Established PLM vendor focused on fashion, retail, and beauty. CCT routinely helps cosmetics clients evaluate and deploy Centric-style PLM solutions, positioning it as a broader incumbent whose software decisions shape CCT's pipeline.

Others

• IQVIA: Large life-sciences technology and consulting provider with regulatory and quality practice areas applicable to cosmetics. Represents the kind of scaled consulting competitor that could, with a focused push, encroach on CCT's boutique regulatory-and-digital niche.
• Eurofins Cosmetics & Personal Care: Global testing and regulatory services provider with a dedicated cosmetics and personal care division. Adjacent to CCT's regulatory-affairs expertise, often serving overlapping cosmetics clients and competing for the regulatory-consulting portion of mandates.
• InFlows: Cosmetics-industry SaaS vendor for which CCT delivered expert-voice webinars that led to new client signings. Operates as a partner/customer in CCT's vendor ecosystem rather than a competing consultant, but shares the same niche target market of cosmetics digital buyers.

Direct peers

• Coptis: French cosmetics R&D software platform covering formulation, regulatory, project management, and safety assessment. CCT helps clients select, deploy, and train on systems like Coptis, and the founder herself spent 2017–2021 at Coptis building the same digital expertise she now sells — making it the most directly comparable firm in the ecosystem.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/estelle-chevreton-cosmetics-consultancy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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