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...In 2017, Shiseido was also forced to take a writedown of $623m on Bare Escentuals as the US group lagged behind in its shift to ecommerce....
...“My job is to cut costs to the bare bones so as to create fuel for our new CEO to invest in our brands,” said Mr Harf....
...Last year it took a writedown of $623m on Bare Escentuals, the New York-based natural make-up company it bought eight years ago....
...This follows its slow and painful integration of Bare Escentuals, the US natural make-up company it acquired for $1.7bn in 2010....
...Mr Immelt took over the company in 2001 after a brutal public beauty contest against two internal rivals....
...Its My Burberry Black scent really does try to capture “a London garden amidst a gathering storm . . . the fragrance bottles the sensual elements of a black Burberry trenchcoat against bare skin”....
...He believes these cultural differences account for the slow integration of Bare Escentuals, the US natural make-up company that Shiseido acquired for $1.7bn in 2010....
...Shiseido fell 4 per cent after warning it would produce a loss after writing down the value of Bare Escentuals, its 2010 purchase, by more than a quarter of its original goodwill....
...Her name is Leslie Blodgett and she’s the chief executive of Bare Escentuals. Bare Escentuals, which launched in 1976, specialises in mineral make-up with pure, chemical-free ingredients....
...The beauty of Japanese food is that, however much you eat, there still seems to be room for more....
...Other big deals completed last year included Shiseido’s $1.7bn acquisition of Bare Escentuals of the US....
...Put simply: women increasingly dare to bare. Both Cherie Blair, wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and former home secretary Jacqui Smith have been captured without make-up on occasion....
...Shiseido, Japan’s biggest cosmetics maker, has agreed to acquire Bare Escentuals for about $1.7bn in cash to expand outside a shrinking domestic market, its largest-ever acquisition, reports Bloomberg....
...Bare Escentuals has ridden the recession well; sales in the nine months to September last year were down just 4 per cent on 2008....
...Shiseido is offering to buy out Bare Escentuals for $18.20 a share, a 40.8 per cent premium over the average closing price for the three months to January 13....
...shopstyle.com website, where customers can browse 100 or more brands, from Vanessa Bruno and Juicy Couture for women to Brooks Brothers and Lacoste for men, and Diesel and Ralph Lauren for children – plus beauty...
...In the consumer sector, shares in Bare Escentuals surged 41.8 per cent to $18.07 after Japan’s Shiseido announced that it would the cosmetic firm for about $1.7bn in an effort to expand its global reach....
...Extra’s bare-bones advertising jingle says it all: “Cheaper, cheaper, extra”....
...“That’s the beauty of the web,” he says. Beliefnet was not supposed to be a website....
...So it was highly provocative to dismiss them as “stupid” for undervaluing the health and beauty group until it attracted takeover interest from private equity in February....
...Bare Escentuals, one of QVC’s most popular featured cosmetic brands, is planning an initial public offering for later this year that is expected to value its operations at up to $1bn....
...Grey metal shelves against bare walls hold some of the collection’s most valuable volumes....
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