Who we are
Who we are
Beyond distribution.
Beautimport offers to the Italian retailers its experience, perfect services and a high-end product portfolio.
The flexibility of its distribution as well as the know-how developed throughout the years make Beautimport able to follow any step of a project that goes from the creation of a product to its local or international distribution. Beautimport is eclectic by nature, professional and rigorous by approach.
Beautimport dates back to 1920s, when the Company of Arturo Giorgi and sons used to be the exclusive representative of Bourjois Parfumeur Paris in Italy.
In 1932 the family company obtains from Bourjois the licence to manufacture all the cosmetics products in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) at the family factory Bourjois /Profumerie di Lusso, including the renewed perfumes Chanel and Bourjois Soir de Paris.
After his step into his family company Profumerie di Lusso as Commercial Director and after the closure of the plant at the beginning of the ‘70s, Chanel gives Piersandro Catelli the responsibility to continue the exclusive distribution for Italy of its brands. This is the beginning of Beautimport in 1974.
Beautimport developed in these years into the absolute player on the Italian perfumery scenario, thanks to the skilful building of the national sales network of brands such as Chanel, Bourjois, Barbara Gould and Ungaro.
The company distributed Chanel until 1990, when Chanel opened its subsidiary in Milan.
During the beginning of the ‘90s other prestigious brands enriched the portfolio of Beautimport’ and its distribution, until 1996 when Piersandro Catelli took a new challenge: the international licensee of Terme di Saturnia Linea Cosmetica Termale, an Italian spa skin care brand, distributed all over the world.
This made of Beautimport also a producer and exporter in the world, capable of sticking to the different cosmetic regulations, such as the FDA (USA) and the even stricter Japanese regulation of the MOH.
Quality, Research & Development and Skills represent the strengths peculiar to Beautimport.
Mr. Nicola Catelli, son of the founder of Beautimport, is today the Managing Director.
