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...LVMH-owned Sephora recently released a blockbuster set of annual results and said it had the potential to reach €20bn in sales, while L’Oréal reported a 7.6 per cent rise in sales last year to more than...
...That would be well below L’Oréal on 20 times and below the 12 times that Coty and L’Occitane trade at. Spain’s largest IPO in years is so far looking good. andrew.whiffin@ft.com...
...The deal is the latest in a string of mooted transactions in the beauty sector after private equity-owned German beauty retailer Douglas announced earlier this month plans to list in Frankfurt....
...Having started life as a joint venture between Nestlé and L’Oréal, Galderma was acquired by a consortium led by Swedish private equity group EQT in a $10bn deal in 2019....
...Shares in German beauty retailer Douglas fell as much as 9 per cent in their Frankfurt debut last month....
...When l told my wife, she asked if I’d lost the house (which we owned outright). l said, no, even l was not that stupid. She then laughed and said that it ‘doesn’t really matter much then’....
...Website; Directions— Jan Randolph, economist, London The Wilder Townhouse, Dublin I am a regular visitor to The Wilder. I am always greeted warmly....
...His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...Since our first meeting, McQueen and Stigter have also spent months processing the Dutch election victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party (PVV) last November....
...In some respects, he was wilder in office than he had been on the campaign trail. And I think he’s threatening to be even wilder again....
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...“The prince had his passion, but he ran it like a business,” explains Douglas Erskine Crum, Juddmonte CEO and former chief executive of Ascot racecourse....
...But the further south you ride, the wilder it gets, until mobile reception becomes rare and a handful of houses are gathered into tiny towns only every 100km or so....
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...During her research, she injected radioactive carbon into a birch tree and, after a while, got a reading on her Geiger counter in a neighbouring Douglas fir....
...But apart from the opening of two Parisian outposts, L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon and Fouquet’s (part of the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf, above Gustavia), the laidback mood of before persists....
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...“It’s Johnny Depp’s favourite, and Douglas Booth loves it, and so does Stephen Fry and also [23‑year-old English model and poet] Sonny Hall.”...
...Speculation about top-secret Russian, Chinese or even American technology, not to mention the wilder theories about aliens, has run rampant ever since....
...Buyers who forsake proximity to the Hermès store or the two-Michelin-starred La Table de l’Alpaga restaurant in Megève, near Mont Blanc, for the outlying areas of Le Jaillet, Le Maz or Côte 2000, can expect...
...L&G found that 10 per cent of over-50s who have not yet retired are expecting to retire earlier than they anticipated, by two years on average....
...It’s a sort of natural selection in this still-natural place, which for the wilder at heart has proven to be its own version of paradise. atlanticclubcomporta.com....
...The interior is fitted out in oak, birch ply, Douglas fir, with dizzyingly precise craftsmanship on display in every room....
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