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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....
...Yes, it is a liberty, but it is one that lends the work potency and passion, and, as a programme note from historian Ashley Douglas observes, is not entirely without precedent....
...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....
...A whole generation took his advice, as curator Denise Murell makes irresistibly clear by hanging works by Aaron Douglas, William H Johnson, and Archibald Motley alongside ones by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse...
...His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...It is the kind of place Wes Anderson suggests he might frequent when in Italy. If it existed. Which it didn’t. So he had to design it....
...When it comes to hero ingredients, l-theanine, a soothing amino acid found in tea leaves, is “a big one”, he says, along with “mushrooms and full-spectrum hemp”....
...This week he riffed hilariously on Wes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City. The column pastiches the quirky, downbeat mood of a Wes Anderson movie rather than the director’s typical plot devices....
...But once the cheques started coming in, and the brands and L'Oreal were knocking at the door, everyone started understanding it....
...Adrian Anderson, director at broker Anderson Harris, said the stress rate — about 8 per cent before the rate rise — was often based on a lender’s standard variable rate, which would typically move in step...
...A new crop of IPO candidates in CVC, General Atlantic and L Catterton may test the waters of public markets in 2024, while BlackRock continues to hunt for its “transformative” private capital deal....
...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....
...Brics creator slams ‘ridiculous’ idea for common currency Canadian pension giant warns against UK plan to push schemes into private equity Richard Buxton says UK equity market in a ‘very sorry state’ L&...
...“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....
...Paul Anderson’s lighting is dark yet alive; Christina Cunningham’s costumes suggest the mid-20th century, but only vaguely....
...The worst-case scenario is that “policyholder behaviour changes such that the insurers become forced sellers”, said Douglas Baker, a director at Fitch Ratings....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...My personal style signifiers are Douglas Hayward suits and George Cleverley shoes. The highest part of my racing career was the ’60s and ’70s, which was a fantastic period for music and fashion....
...Steve McQueen, Hurvin Anderson and Catherine Opie are among his artists....
...Jonathan Anderson also took on the inflated trend....
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