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...Estée Lauder has not been alone on that front, with cosmetics peer L’Oréal feeling the effects in its latest quarter of a muted recovery in China and a fall in travel retail in Asia....
...paulsmith.com Gucci raffia GG Marmont shoulder bag, £1,760, matchesfashion.com Guess Originals viscose-mix GO SOPHIA jumper, £30, overkillshop.com Aurélie Bidermann gilded oyster turquoise Alicanta ring, €250 L’...
...Rival L’Oréal, the world’s largest beauty company, has predicted a recovery in Chinese demand in the current quarter....
...Donations can be made until 27 July; spacehive.com A star-dusted fashion sale to support the L’Wren Scott Scholarship Known for her glamorous red-carpet creations, L’Wren Scott dressed some of the most...
...Though Mr Freda does not say so, Estée Lauder has been playing catch-up to bigger rival L’Oréal, which was quicker to sell online and embrace digital technology, while Estée Lauder kept its focus on department...
...In a letter to employees, Fabrizio Freda, the company’s chief executive, and executive chairman William Lauder noted that there “is no truth to these rumors”....
...Here is William Pope.L’s smelly room-within-a-room containing 2,750 slices of putrefying bologna....
...“[Estée Lauder’s M&A strategy is] frankly not to buy in general very big brands that need to be turned around but small very successful brands that can be leveraged,” chief executive Fabrizio Freda said...
...Stars expected in the New York and London offices this year include Samuel L Jackson and Tom Hardy....
...“Leonard and Fabrizio [Freda, Lauder’s CEO] came to see me. We had long conversations and it confirmed to me we were on the same wavelength....
...Estée Lauder’s sales have been growing faster than those of the overall cosmetics industry and of rivals such as L’Oréal, Elizabeth Arden and Coty....
...“Nowadays, 60-year-olds and 40-year-olds are dressing very similarly,” says Lord Wolfson, chief executive of UK retailer Next Yet retailers still have to make adjustments – for mature women in particular...
...Estée Lauder, which has seen its market capitalisation value grow from $6bn to $20bn in the last four years, is the world’s fourth largest beauty group, after Procter & Gamble, L’Oréal and Unilever....
...Wolfson’s two main products are audio hubs and microphone chips, for smartphones and other electronics products....
...Another alumnus, Fabrizio Freda, chief executive of Estée Lauder, is taking business from P&G in cosmetics, and so is L’Oréal....
...Mudlark is a big fan, partly because they evoke memories of the Shmoos in Al Capp’s L’il Abner comic strip....
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