Redken’s Cosmetics Plant to Relocate to Kentucky

Redken Laboratories, a longtime Canoga Park maker of beauty products, said it will relocate its manufacturing and distribution facilities to Kentucky, displacing about 250 people who work in Canoga Park.

Redken’s parent company, Cosmair Inc. in New York, said the plant in Florence, Ky., is new and would enable Redken to produce its products more cheaply. Redken’s facilities in Canoga Park are about 30 years old.

James Nixon, an executive vice president at Cosmair, said the move would be completed in the next 18 months. He said the move will not affect Redken’s headquarters, sales and research and development offices in Canoga Park, where an additional 200 people work.