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...Natura offloaded luxury Australian beauty outfit Aesop to industry rival L’Oréal earlier this year on an enterprise value of $2.5bn....
...Dennis Fan, a lawyer for the attorney-general’s office, argued that the former president could piece together a series of smaller bonds, or use his real estate portfolio to secure bank credit that could...
...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...‘Making History: The Ceramic Work of Simon Pettet’ at Dennis Severs’ House, London It had been years since I’d visited Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields; I returned this autumn for a show of Simon Pettet...
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...Brazilian company Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...In an updated prospectus, Birkenstock said that it would sell stock at between $44 and $49 per share, which would raise up to $1.6bn for the company and its private equity owner L Catterton....
...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...It may be the character of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987), assuring us that “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”, somehow being associated with economists....
...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late environmental campaigner Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, and became a pioneer in the field of ethical consumerism....
...That chimes with the insurer’s exposure to the UK, which over the next couple of years will provide some 80 per cent of operating profits, according to Panmure Gordon’s Abid Hussain....
...Gordon describes the experience as intense; she attended six days a week, working for 10 hours a day....
...L’Oréal: Its $2.5bn acquisition of luxury Australian soap maker Aesop is Nicolas Hieronimus’s boldest strategic move as the French group’s chief executive....
...Lacie Midgley, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, said the revenue guidance was worse than expected, but it was not a bad thing for the new chief executive to reset expectations at a low level....
...The obvious precedent is the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM and opened almost exactly 60 years ago....
...It may be that to protest doesn’t quite match Voltaire’s “écrasez l’infâme” (crush infamy), quoted by Schama....
...“I wanted someone to come in and really scrutinise the technology,” said Lacie Midley, analyst at Panmure Gordon. “That’s a big sticking point for investors....
...Email your thoughts to firstft@ft.com or hit reply to this email and I may feature your comment in a future edition of FirstFT — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...have to mean a compromise on style. theofennell.com Cartridge salt & pepper grinders by Forwood Design, £165 Made of Japanese Tamo Ash and stainless steel. forwooddesign.com Hand-painted platter by Gordon...
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...Well over a quarter of the French market are consumer goods companies — think LVMH, Hermès and L’Oréal. They are expected to have a good crisis....
...As well as Marlboro, the company sells cigarette brands including L&M and Chesterfield, owns smoke-free tobacco product IQOS and recently bought Swedish Match, maker of the Snus oral nicotine pouch, for...
...The agency has worked with brands including Mulberry, Sainsbury, Primark and L’Oréal; and individuals including footballer Raheem Sterling, and chefs Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson....
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