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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...
...L’Oréal’s specialist beauty division, which caters to professionals and is largely focused on haircare, delivered €4.6bn in sales after growing 7.6 per cent on a like-for-like basis last year....
...Ben Russon, co-head of UK equities at Martin Currie, wrote to make the case for Barclays....
...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....
...The pod was christened XLII, or 42 in Roman numerals, a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the number is said to be the answer to the meaning of life....
...Puig is small compared with sector-leading peers L’Oréal and Estée Lauder, but has grown rapidly through acquisitions in the past decade, striking 11 deals in the past 12 years....
...Neither an opera nor an oratorio, L’Allegro is an adaptation of two poems by John Milton, with a short third part added by Handel’s librettist, Charles Jennens....
...“Big and strong and yet also feminine.” His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas. Digital operator, Denis Shklovsky....
...“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....
...F1 and its governing body, the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, decided that this could be achieved from 2026 onwards through power units that are a 50-50 combination of a small capacity internal...
...Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Milton!”...
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...Mark Morris can take any lyric, be it John Milton’s “L’Allegro” or Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in “Goin’ Away Party”, and make dances that play saucy games with the sung narrative, repurposing familiar...
...Milton has pleaded not guilty to two counts of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud....
...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...
...Towards Brixton there’s “Poet’s Corner” — Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser Roads....
...A Minyungbal woman based in Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Douglas is one of the founders of Currie Country, an organisation that connects people to Aboriginal Australia via events, education and consulting...
...What unfolded was a drama fit for the new generation of fans raised on Netflix’s F1 series, with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the sport’s governing body, forced to launch an inquiry and...
...The idea of just focusing on shareholder interests, as the 20th century economist Milton Friedman urged company boards to do, looks increasingly risky — even for those shareholders....
...“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.”...
...But, as H L Mencken is supposed to have said (though may not have done), “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. This is a powerful example of that truth....
...Oréal executives to form $1.2bn beauty company (Wall Street Journal) US sends ex-banker wanted in $485m fraud case to China (Bloomberg) Nikola founder Trevor Milton must face criminal case that he misled...
...broker at estate agent Douglas Elliman....
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