
President, Professional Consultants & Resources
Member of the Retail Council
Cyrus Bulsara is the President of Professional Consultants & Resources (PCR) since 1998. PCR is a full-service strategic consulting company specializing in beauty, salon, cosmetics & consumer products. PCR is a leading source of industry data, competitive intelligence, strategy and background research with excellent global knowledge. Prior to this, Mr. Bulsara was CEO of Beauty and Health Works Co., a contract manufacturing company specializing in private label/own label products in high-end hair care, skincare, cosmetics for the beauty, salon and cosmetics industry from 1998 to 2001. The company was successfully divested in 2001. Mr. Bulsara also has held executive positions at Mary Kay, Wella/P&G, Clairol/P&G, Logics/Matrix/L’Oreal, Redken/L’Oreal and Colgate-Palmolive. He has been a consultant on projects for Alberto-Culver, Regis Corp, Sally Beauty/BSG, Helen of Troy, Conair, L’Oreal, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, KAO, Henkel, and Bare Escentuals, Physician’s Formula, Herbalife, Avon, Beiersdorf, Reckitt-Benckiser, etc. He is an expert on the salon and beauty industry, direct sales, prestige department stores and mass retail. He provides strategic marketing, mediation, legal strategy, expert reports, depositions/testimony on diversion, gray market goods, distributor’s contracts etc. Mr. Bulsara has 25 years experience in the industry. (This is me - Update Profile)
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Unilever On the Prowl...Again !
October 1, 2009
Unilever Plans to Buy Sara Lee Soaps for $1.9 Billion | www.bloomberg.com
After the last major acquisition of TIGI, the Tony & Guy Salon Products unit, Unilever seems to be making the right acquisition moves and is on the prowl for CPG/FMCG companies again.
"Irrational Exuberance" on Regis
August 26, 2009
Feltl Upgrades Regis (RGS) to Buy, $20 Price Target | news.glgroup.com
Pure financial analysis supported by Conference Call analytics, for a company like Regis (RGS), without knowledge of actual market level factors may give a skewed view of the financial fundamentals and cause for "Irrational Exuberance" on Price Targets. Salon Industry cognoscenti and "Industry Expert" consultants like us, who make it our business to follow salon client habits and broad industry trends, sometimes see things very differently than some Wall St. analysts.
"Irrational Exhuberance" on Regis
August 21, 2009
Feltl Upgrades Regis (RGS) to Buy, $20 Price Target | www.streetinsider.com
Pure financial analysis supported by Conference Call analytics, for a company like Regis, without knowledge of actual market level factors may give a skewed view of the financial fundamentals and cause for "Irrational Exuberance" on Price Targets. Salon Industry cognoscenti and "Industry Expert" consultants like us, who make it our business to follow salon client habits and broad industry trends, sometimes see things very differently than some Wall St. analysts.
Paul Polman's Shake-Up, Wake-Up Call at Sleeping Giant Unilever
August 20, 2009
Unilever’s Polman May Pass Old P&G Bosses With Cheap Margarine | www.bloomberg.com
Paul Polman, recently took over the helm at sleeping giant Unilever, and his dynamic, turn-on-a-dime, entrepreneurial spirit has already engaged Unilever's EU staff in getting busy. Polman, a Nestle and P&G alumn, has focussed his sights firmly, on getting ahead of P&G, especially in its own home territory - Europe. "Unilever may pass Nestle for the first time since 2001, and may sell more items annually than P&G, for the first time in at least five years"..tells the whole story.
May 30, 2008
Godrej industries net profit up 185 percent | in.news.yahoo.com
Godrej Industries, is a highly diversified $1.87 billion conglomerate. Godrej Cosumer Products, also has a sales volume, of over $1.1billion and operates in various CPG/FMCG categories in a 7-8% growth market in India. Godrej's varied and disparate businesses, operate in a market catering to India's growing middle-class, of nearly 250 million newly affluent consumers.
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Cosmetics Experts | 557 |
| Print Advertising Market Experts | 236 |
| Direct Selling Experts | 156 |
| Experts in the Retail Council | 115 |
| Greenfield Online Experts | 45 |
Cyrus Bulsara has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.