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...Natura offloaded luxury Australian beauty outfit Aesop to industry rival L’Oréal earlier this year on an enterprise value of $2.5bn....
...In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But she is not old at all....
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...Brazilian company Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...In an updated prospectus, Birkenstock said that it would sell stock at between $44 and $49 per share, which would raise up to $1.6bn for the company and its private equity owner L Catterton....
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late environmental campaigner Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, and became a pioneer in the field of ethical consumerism....
...That chimes with the insurer’s exposure to the UK, which over the next couple of years will provide some 80 per cent of operating profits, according to Panmure Gordon’s Abid Hussain....
...Gordon describes the experience as intense; she attended six days a week, working for 10 hours a day....
...L’Oréal: Its $2.5bn acquisition of luxury Australian soap maker Aesop is Nicolas Hieronimus’s boldest strategic move as the French group’s chief executive....
...The obvious precedent is the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM and opened almost exactly 60 years ago....
...It may be that to protest doesn’t quite match Voltaire’s “écrasez l’infâme” (crush infamy), quoted by Schama....
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...have to mean a compromise on style. theofennell.com Cartridge salt & pepper grinders by Forwood Design, £165 Made of Japanese Tamo Ash and stainless steel. forwooddesign.com Hand-painted platter by Gordon...
...Well over a quarter of the French market are consumer goods companies — think LVMH, Hermès and L’Oréal. They are expected to have a good crisis....
...As well as Marlboro, the company sells cigarette brands including L&M and Chesterfield, owns smoke-free tobacco product IQOS and recently bought Swedish Match, maker of the Snus oral nicotine pouch, for...
...The agency has worked with brands including Mulberry, Sainsbury, Primark and L’Oréal; and individuals including footballer Raheem Sterling, and chefs Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson....
...The US beauty and fragrance group hopes shares trading at 29 times forward earnings would edge up to the rating of 35 times enjoyed by L’Oréal....
...It is a far cry from the more minimalist approach taken by Marloe Watch Company founders Gordon Fraser, a draughtsman, and marketing consultant Oliver Goffe....
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
...odeur de l’argent: a scent based on “the memory of a well-worn dollar bill”, which was presented at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris....
...Analysts at Gordon Haskett said a potential sale could value Mattel “in the low-$30s” per share, representing a 35 per cent premium to its closing price on Tuesday....
...The bequest features many of the greats of the 20th century, from Richard Avedon to Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Nan Goldin, as well as her own photographs....
...The gallery, now under the direction of Gordon VeneKlasen, specialises in painting — Peter Doig, Per Kirkeby — though rarely in women artists....
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