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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....
...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....
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...L&G said that it had written £13.4bn of pension transfer business globally so far this year....
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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.”...
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...These are the components of the Granolas: GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP, Sanofi. Trips off the tongue, right? Granolas....
...such as the linear, crystalline “Semiramis Building Babylon”, and in the five-square-metre “Bellelli Family”, the youthful masterpiece begun in Florence in 1858 portraying his sad, long-faced Italian aunt Laura...
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C mortgages, said it was a “real positive” that some lenders had already started to come back with fixed rate mortgages, which should lead to “more competition, sharpening...
...Laura Dern is one of my closest pals, and if she came over right now and I said, ‘Laura, will you do something stupid with me?’ She would say, ‘Absolutely.’”...
...Sophie Westwood and Laura Longley, investment managers at Evelyn Partners, reckon that even though market conditions are very difficult now, there are still “fantastic opportunities” for ESG investors....
...Ghesquière took functional elements and blew them up to out-of-this-world proportions: puffed-up space-age vests were festooned with mammoth-sized zippers (reportedly the largest ever manufactured), trompe l’...
...And it’s that L-word that really gets people worried....
...In 2020 she was awarded France’s Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to culture....
...clinical-stage biotechnology firm claimed a “particularly egregious example” of this activity took place in May, after the publication of what they maintain were positive trial data for Northwest’s DCVax-L...
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
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