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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....
...That’s really problematic for the rest of us,” said John Duncan, co-lead for the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, a group of more than 200 companies including Walmart, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal...
...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....
...Investors “recognise there’s been significant reforms in the investment climate”, said Douglas Ramage, managing director at consultancy Bower Group Asia in Jakarta....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...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....
...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...
...“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.”...
...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....
...The interior is fitted out in oak, birch ply, Douglas fir, with dizzyingly precise craftsmanship on display in every room....
...Their venue will be the Royal Hall of the Villa Marina entertainment complex in Douglas. Early in December the chess body Fide is expected to affiliate Isle of Man as a new member....
...The artists whose work I would collect if I could are Barkley L Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems and Kerry James Marshall....
...(FT) Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain....
...Home sales have been busiest in the $600,000 to $900,000 price bracket, says Owen Berkowitz, an agent with Douglas Elliman, based in Westchester....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power, by Tom Bower, William Collins, RRP£20 As the title suggests, this is an unabashedly hostile account of the leader of Britain’s Labour party....
...Douglas Ramage, managing director at consultancy Bower Group Asia in Jakarta, said such a move was more “aspirational” than realistic....
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