Shiseido Co., Ltd.

Japanese cosmetics company with its head office in Tokyo, founded in 1872 as a western style pharmacy in Ginza and listed in Tokyo, one of the oldest and largest cosmetics companies in the world. Makes and sells skincare, make-up, sun care, hair care and fragrance under brands including Shiseido, Clé de Peau Beauté, NARS and Drunk Elephant, runs quasi-drug and dermatological skincare lines under Japanese regulation, and operates its own research centres working on skin science, safety and alternatives to animal testing.