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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....
...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....
...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.”...
...Actors Sophia Loren, Jessica Chastain and Benicio Del Toro were there in spite of the SAG-AFTRA strike that has kept many in Hollywood away....
...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’...
...The audience had Hollywood wattage, the cast walking in front of actors such as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, Jessica Chastain, Laura Dern and Diane Keaton....
...And it’s that L-word that really gets people worried....
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