Global provider of high value-added solutions for home care and health categories.
ZOBELE is a global provider of high value-added solutions for leading brands in the home care and health categories. We work closely with our customers as a key facilitator of their success through the ideation, formulation, design, packaging and manufacture of new products.
ZOBELE was acquired in 2020 by the multinational group KDC / One expanding our capabilities, especially in the areas of beauty and personal health.
Part of our added value lies in the ability to continually innovate through new technologies, new materials and the ideation of new products within existing markets or within new markets.
We now would like to enhance ZOBELE’s open innovation efforts through the participation in The MotherTrees in order to increase the ability to generate new collaboration opportunities with startups.
The project aims to:
1) Improve efficiency in generating start-up opportunities in a new market in a disruptive way
2) Achieve collaborative projects that help us get more involved in the circular economy and accelerate our environmental sustainability program.
ZOBELE innovates via the ideation of new disruptive products that are finally launched on the market thanks to the group’s global development and manufacturing capabilities. As part of the KDC / One group, ZOBELE works closely with 25 manufacturing plants and 22 development centers located on 3 different continents. In addition, ZOBELE enjoys an intense and consolidated collaboration with the main global retail companies in the segments of home care, beauty and personal care and health.
What are we looking for?
Unique products and services
for the beauty and personal care mass market. (including personalization and skin & hair monitoring solutions) that offer a clear benefit to the consumer (no medical prescription, ideally patent protected & with refillable system)
Air care & fragrances products
unique new formats and solutions that have the potential to disrupt the air care/freshener & fragrances market. (including non-pressurized aerosol technologies, devices, carriers; filter free; ideally patent protected & with refillable system)
Innovative solutions to improve
the product experience of our beauty, personal care and air care solutions at point of sale and along the whole product lifecycle.
Innovative solutions in sustainable
packaging and product and material end-of-life management. (recovery of the product for re-use, recycling, and sustainable disposal)
The ideal profile
THE PROCESS
01
Call for applications
31th March
02
Selection Day
8th April
03
Collaboration Kick off
19th April
04
POC development
and implementation
25th April – 14th July
Kick off Acceleration phase
05
Presentation of results
10th – 14th July
06
Presentation of results
14th July
The Program includes:
- Feasibility assessment and implementation plan of the collaboration.
- Collaboration alignment and preparation of relevant documentation.
- POC development and implementation process.
- Project management, offering support in the alignment & development of the challenge and the implementation of the solution, solving all general and specific needs regarding the projects.
