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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....
...Laura Bailey was a guest of the Domaine de l’Île, Porquerolles, domainedelile.com Letter in response to this article: There’s nothing simple about defining luxury / From Wendy Lee, Gruissan, Aude, France...
..., and Simon Bailey is a most impressive Captain Balstrode....
...His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...Andrew Bailey, the BoE governor, was also uncompromising about the need to cut inflation....
...For this edition, email me at alastair.bailey@ft.com or if you received this email in your inbox just hit reply. Jonathan will be back next week....
...Sometimes it can lead to grimly amusing situations, such as the Andrew Bailey-chaired FPC voting to buy long-term gilts to calm last year’s chaos even as the Andrew Bailey-chaired MPC was selling them to...
...Gardiner Cushing – the celebrated American impressionist painter whose work hangs in the Whitney in New York – provided inspiration, as did the whimsical decor of The Ledges, the family home overlooking Bailey...
...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....
...those ominous-looking sentinels — on striking display in Clement Virgo’s Scarborough-set Brother, premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — one can find cricket pitches, such as the L’...
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...Mikey has got hold of a video of a party at Conservative headquarters involving staff working for former Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, including dancing and drinking....
...Long Bailey took up Starmer’s offer....
...“They’ve been smashing up their reserves, which is never a good plan,” says Stephen Bailey-Smith, a portfolio manager at Global Evolution....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C Mortgages, said: “Lenders could see their way to dropping fixed rates back a little bit. There’s more scope for them to do that.”...
...When words run out, song and dance take over and they launch into scintillating choreography (by Theophilus O Bailey), firing up the audience....
...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...
...Douglas Henshall is excellent as Melville. At first, confident in his position and in his principles, he lords it over Thompson, a fictitious lowly servant....
...Sivill was one of Lubetkin’s later works, designed for Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council with Francis Skinner and Douglas Bailey....
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