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...Luxury Australian marque Aesop was sold to L’Oréal for $2.5bn in April and last month Natura agreed to sell The Body Shop to private equity firm Aurelius for a fraction of the price it paid in 2017, after...
...The chief executive of L’Oréal, the world’s biggest beauty company, has predicted that price increases will slow this year after they helped to propel growth in the global beauty market for the past three...
...If the miss is rare, limited in scope and likely temporary, L’Oréal’s investment narrative should remain untarnished....
...Rapid growth in emerging markets including India, Brazil and Mexico provided a boost, accounting for 15 per cent of L’Oréal’s annual sales, but 30 per cent of its growth....
...Increases in the volume of products consumers bought contributed 4 per cent to L’Oréal’s 2023 revenue growth, while the rest came from pricing, not vice versa as wrongly stated in an article on February...
...French beauty company L’Oreal grew its sales in the third quarter despite a more muted than expected recovery in China....
...Growth was slowest in L’Oréal’s luxury division, which improved 3.2 per cent....
...Shares in Hermès rose 5.1 per cent, helping the company overtake L’Oréal to become the second most valuable firm in France’s blue-chip Cac 40 index....
...Big share price moves in Europe today include French gaming company Ubisoft, German medical technology company Carl Zeiss Meditec, and French cosmetics giant L’Oréal....
...Estée Lauder and L’Oréal did not respond to a request for comment....
...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...
...Galderma might be tempted to shoot for L’Oréal-like multiples — which is roughly what is implied by that mooted $20bn valuation....
...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....
...Companies: Updates are expected from Anglo-Swedish drug giant AstraZeneca, British American Tobacco, French lender Crédit Agricole, France’s L’Oréal, advertising company Publicis, Germany’s Siemens and Watches...
...The crunchy acronym was coined by Goldman Sachs for pharma companies GSK and Roche, Dutch chip company ASML, Switzerland’s Nestlé and Novartis, Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, France’s L’Oréal and LVMH, the...
...Hieronimus, a L’Oreal lifer who was appointed chief in 2021, insisted L’Oreal would maintain financial discipline, “When there’s an opportunity, we look at it [but] we are very disciplined in how much we...
...L’Oréal last year bought Australian high-end cosmetics group Aesop from its Brazilian owner in a transaction with an enterprise value of $2.5bn....
...That’s really problematic for the rest of us,” said John Duncan, co-lead for the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, a group of more than 200 companies including Walmart, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal...
...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....
...When ethical beauty entrepreneur Anita Roddick sold The Body Shop to L’Oréal in 2006, cynics predicted it would lose its mojo....
...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....
...Good hair and a lofty valuation: a rare stumble poses the question, is L’Oréal worth it? Have a great week, Helen ThomasHead of Lexhelen.thomas@ft.com...
...L’Oréal’s $2.5bn acquisition of luxury beauty brand Aesop is right on trend. For all the glitz and glamour of this sector, L’Oréal is not overpaying for the Australian brand....
...(Alphaville believes that using L’Oréal as an O is cheating, even if it makes your acronym look nicer.)...
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
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