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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....
...Renaissance-inspired cutlery set comes in a wenge wood case. artemest.com Splatter scallop dish by Sharland, £28 Hand-painted and available in three colourways. sharland-england.com Rainbow table by Laura...
...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....
...Objet x Studio Oficina Marques, £1,200 Scented with geranium and fir balsam in a handmade vessel. l-objet.com Buto glass candlestick by Issy Granger, £35 Handblown by artisans in Cairo. issygranger.com...
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...The second-hand value of Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet watches rose nearly 50 per cent on average between the first quarter of 2020 and the same period in 2022, according to Matthew Clarke, senior...
...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie, Gretta Cohn and Natalie Sadler....
...On sale from September 1. hay.dk L’art Plissé by Folkform, €1,200 This pleated textile design adds a warm glow to any space. folkform.se Titanio II Murano glass table light by Green Wolf Studio, £380...
...L&G said that it had written £13.4bn of pension transfer business globally so far this year....
...Clarke ruled out changing Hotel Chocolat’s recipes. Hotel Chocolat last year announced the closure of its US stores after heavy losses and wrote off its investment in a Japanese joint venture....
...Paris l’Été may be a low-key festival compared to Avignon or Edinburgh, but its audiences are hardly short-changed. ★★★★☆ Festival runs to July 30, parislete.fr...
...As John Clarke, a former European Commission trade negotiator, noted on X, “The big question at MC13 is what will countries pay India to continue the moratorium?”...
...One example is Aesop, the Australian high-end soap maker known for its vegan products, which Natura sold to L’Oréal in a $2.5bn deal earlier this year....
...Four finishes and three sizes available. matildagoad.com Testa brass doorknob by Meraki, from £7 With an acrylic centrepiece and various designs and backplates. shopmeraki.co L-Bar cabinet handle by Buster...
...You have until 8pm GMT on January 28 to bid for lunch there with our financial regulation editor Laura Noonan, with me at Turnips, or with a host of other FT journalists at various lovely places....
...Laura Bailey was a guest of the Domaine de l’Île, Porquerolles, domainedelile.com Letter in response to this article: There’s nothing simple about defining luxury / From Wendy Lee, Gruissan, Aude, France...
...& Clarke with Breegan Jane....
...He is Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury (the founder of the Avengers), who returns from a celestial sabbatical to stop an impending coup by a race of reptilian — but human-mimicking — aliens, known as Skrulls...
...Objet, £160 Finished with 24-karat gold and a cabochon centrepiece on the lid. uk.l-objet.com Irrawaddy brass candle bowl by Kalinko, £60 This triple-wick candle uses wax supplied by Myanmar-based Koko...
...See 60 key paintings placed in conversation with works by 30 contemporary artists, including David Hockney, Ugo Rondinone and the late Mexican-American photographer Laura Aguilar....
...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie, Gretta Cohn and Natalie Sadler. FT premium subscribers can get the Unhedged newsletter for free. A 30-day free trial is available to everyone else....
...The L&G chief described the UK as a “low-productivity, low-growth, low-wage economy fraught by political infighting and that has to change.”...
...Laura Neilson, an emergency doctor who also heads the Greater Manchester homelessness charity Shared Health, is at the sharp end of the reductions....
...The move has involved significant investment, says Laura Heurteloup of Alpe d’Huez Tourism....
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