Suppliers To Know: Spa Products

The spa industry in this region is growing — and the best is yet to come. Intelligent Spas’ Spa Development Pipeline research identified 139 spa developments are set to enter the GCC between 2015 and 2019, potentially increasing spa numbers in this region by 27%.

In comparison, confirmed developments will see spa numbers increase to 639, up 19% compared to the number of spas operating in the GCC in 2013. Saudi Arabia has the highest growth potential, with spa numbers increasing by 34% by 2018. Oman’s spa industry is set to increase by 23% between now and 2018, and Dubai currently hosts the highest number of spas in the GCC, with over 190 currently operating and another 34 spas in the pipeline.

Fashionizer Spa

Debbie Leon, Managing Director, Fashionizer shares more about the spa offering

What is your new launch for this year?

Fashionizer Spa is a high quality uniform designer for luxury hotels, resorts and spas. We provide a bespoke service and have an extensive spa stock collection. Our speciality is the use of natural fibres: cotton, linen and bamboo. Fashionizer’s fabric development department works on combining natural fibres with the latest developments in fabric technology. An example of this is the introduction of a new fabric treatment that is perfect for warmer climates such as the Middle East: Silverplus is a natural antibacterial treatment that enables uniforms to stay fresh and odour-free all day. This has been incorporated into our stock spa uniforms.

Can you share more about this product?

Our designs are a marriage between fashion and practicality. Luxury resorts and spas need stylish uniforms, but they also need garments that work well for the wearer. This is especially true of spa uniforms as the spa environment has particular challenges: temperature, and the use of oils and water. Our fabrics and fabric treatments address this challenge. In addition, our unique selling point is our ability to interpret a resort or spa’s brand and translate it into uniforms that are beautifully designed and a perfect fit with the identity of the property.

Why is this product important for the spa industry?

Staff uniforms that look great and enhance the look of the hotel staff is of great value. As well as design expertise, we offer a wealth of knowledge and experience of creating uniforms specifically for spas. It is a complete and detailed service from designs, to quality fabric and manufacture, fitting of staff from multiple nationalities, and most importantly, achieved to budget and on time.

When was your company established, and how long has it been in the Middle East?

Fashionizer Spa was launched in 2008 as a sister company to luxury hotel uniform designer Fashionizer, established in 1993 in London, UK. Our first client in the Middle East was the Phoenicia Beirut more than six years ago. For our most recent client, Four Seasons Dubai at Jumeirah Beach, we delivered a full uniform programme for the new opening and continue to work with the property on any new requirements that arise.

Email: accountmanager@fashionizer.ae • Web: www.fashionizer.ae •Tel: +44 2089950088

Guest Supply

Rachael Towl, Regional Sales Manager, Guest Supply talks about the luxury amenity line and what’s new for 2017

Could you tell us a bit about your company and your core products and services?

As a division of Sysco Inc. (a ‘Fortune 500’ company with an annual turnover in excess of US $44 billion), Guest Supply is the world’s largest, fully integrated supplier of hotel toiletries, guest amenities and hotel accessories to the hotel and travel industry — providing product design, development, manufacturing and global distribution.

What are some of the recent collaborations and innovations by your company?

Guest Supply and Aromatherapy Associates work in partnership to provide the luxurious guest collection to the hotel industry on a global scale. Based on a philosophy which embraces the importance of enhancing physical and emotional wellbeing, the collection gives the opportunity to offer guests the ultimate indulgence. This collection of ‘treatments in a tube’ brings an element of luxury spa to the guest room experience and with its dual shower gel options — ‘Relax’ and ‘Revive’.

What new products could we expect from you in 2017?

We are excited to be launching some beautiful new collections to the hospitality industry in 2017 with luxury brands La Perla, Carol Joy and Cochine. We will also be offering a second collection from French cosmetic brand Institut Karité. Created from its most popular skincare line, Milk Cream, the collection contains shea butter as the active ingredient.

Email: sales@guestsupply.ae • Web: www.guestsupply.com • Tel: +971 4 8808551

ADA Pacific Direct

General Manager Robert Dupree speaks about the company’s Elemis brand, and its association with top hotels, spas and celebrities

Could you tell us a bit about your company?

ADA was founded 1979 in Kehl, Germany, and purchased Pacific Direct in 2015. Pacific Direct has been operating in the Middle East since 1991, and ADA Cosmetics since 2008. The company business is now conducted under the name of “ADA Pacific Direct”. Our company has its own research and development and we are ISO 14001:20015 certified.

What are your core products and services?

We have an extensive lifestyle collection, an extensive luxury collection — with 15 renowned brands like Chopard, Annick Goutal, and Amouage. We also have a green collection (certified natural cosmetics, amenities with fair trade ingredients and with organic ingredients) along with dispenser solutions development of private hotel brands.

What are some of the recent collaborations done by your company with regards to the spa industry?

ADA Pacific Direct partners with the brand Elemis, which produces a selection of products centred on the ‘Revitalise Me’ range for the hotel and spa industry, and is known as a renowned British spa and skincare brand. Stars like Kate Hudson, Suki Waterhouse and Poppy Delevigne have Elemis products in their bathroom — just as many elite hotels in the world.

Email: pacificd@emirates.net.ae • Web: www.www.pacificdirect.co.uk • Tel: +971 506504695

Hansgrohe

Hansgrohe has supplied its products to the Nikki Beach Resort & Spa; Alexandra Wormser, Marketing Specialist, Hansgrohe Middle East has the details

Could you tell us a bit about your company?

Hansgrohe is one of the world’s leading suppliers of luxury, high tech bathroom fittings. It was founded in 1901 in Schiltach, Germany by local innovator Hans Grohe who had a metal pressing workshop. His small three-man operation developed into a global company that now employs around 3,800 people. The Hansgrohe Group has several production facilities around the world, in Germany, USA, France and China, and this year is targeting one billion euros in global sales.

What are your core products and services?

Hansgrohe is a leading innovator in technology, design and sustainability in the sanitation sector. The mixers, showerheads and shower systems it creates are original products that make bathrooms more functional, more comfortable and more aesthetically pleasing.

What are some of the recent innovations by your company with regards to the spa industry?

Hansgrohe has worked on major projects with five-star hotels in the region to bring spa-like products into bathrooms. Popular products in this area include the Croma collection which features Select technology; like the Croma Select Multi hand shower which provides an individualised shower experience with three different kinds of spray: a soft rain shower, a powerful intense rain mode, and a pulsating water jet massage. Hansgrohe has worked on projects including the Nikki Beach Resort & Spa in Dubai. Hansgrohe supplied the whole resort with its PuraVida Hansgrohe collection, Croma Select and Raindance Select.

What new products could we expect from you in 2017?

Hansgrohe will be unveiling its full range of new products during ISH Frankfurt in March 2017. Before that, however, the company is announcing exciting Axor Montreux news mid-October 2016 at the Interieur Kortrijk fair in Belgium.

What are the current trends in the spa industry?

A key trend is to decorate the interior of your spa with natural materials — stone, slate, wood and so on — as clients find it relaxing having a treatment in a natural type of surrounding. Plants and trees too — ‘bringing the outdoors indoors’ — is being increasingly seen, as are water features.

Email: me.support@hansgrohe.com • Web: www.hansgrohe-middleeast.com • Tel: +971 4 4480 200

Rapid Supplies

UAE-based Rapid Supplies has introduced a new range of products for the spa

Have you introduced any new product ranges for the spa industry this year?

We have released our latest guest amenity line, Essence Spa, designed to produce a luxurious yet environmentally responsible bathing experience. These products blend the fragrances of rosemary and green tea, and is formulated with 95-97% natural-origin ingredients.

All products are 100% free from mineral oils and artificial colours. The fully biodegradable formulations are available in beautiful recyclable tubes. The amenity collection features a clean and invigorating fragrance that is pleasant on the senses.

What are your core products and services?

Rapid Supplies offers hotels a comprehensive line of guestroom products, hand-picked child friendly products and our new and unique leatherette collection.

What new products could we expect in 2017?

We are developing a new range of guestroom amenities exclusively for three- and two-star hotels. We will launch our quality amenity line with great value for money for mid-range hotels in a first quarter of 2017.

Tell us a bit about your company?

Rapid Supplies was established in 2013 and since then has developed into a company that has a growing reputation of being the premier distributor of hospitality products in the UAE and other GCC countries. We have a team of 16 people that serves the hospitality industry. The annual turnover projection for this year is close to over US $4.08 (AED 15 million). We have also secured contracts with many hotel groups and our growing reputation is down to our hands-on approach; prompt delivery and after sales support has led to our company gaining several large orders with an increased demand coming from UAE, Saudi Arabia and in Qatar from this year.

Tel: +971 554744557• Email: sales@rapid-supplies.com • Web: www.rapid-supplies.com