Almost 2,500 companies assembled inside the halls at Bologna Fiere in March as Cosmoprof, the self-styled “international leader in the global world of cosmetics”, returned to Bologna for its latest edition. The show trumpeted record exhibitor and visitor numbers: almost a quarter of a million attendees packed inside the shows’ pavilions over the four days of the event, a fifth more than had attended the previous year. 79,000 of these …