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...In June, the head of the LFP told L’Equipe newspaper that Canal+ had no intention of bidding in the upcoming auction for rights from 2024 to 2029. Candidates have until October 17 to apply....
...Earlier this year, L’Oréal snapped up minimalist soap maker Aesop in a $2.5bn deal....
...L’Oréal is one of the world’s top 10 advertisers and spent more than €10bn on promoting its cosmetics, perfumes and shampoos last year alone....
...“If we do nothing, the explosion of debt will paralyse government action, strangle it,” Pierre Moscovici, who heads France’s Court of Audit, told L’Express magazine....
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud...
...“We must go much, much further,” he told L’Opinion newspaper in September....
...The schedule also alludes to memorable moments from the Queen’s 13 trips to France, such as a stop she made at a flower market on Paris’s l’île de la Cité on her first visit in 1948 as a young princess....
...Borne, who visited the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses with Darmanin to show their support, described the attacks on mayors as “intolerable”....
...L’Oréal has the firepower to do deals after several years of strong sales....
...L’Oréal has agreed to buy Australian high-end cosmetics group Aesop from its Brazilian owner, in the largest acquisition for the French company in decades....
...Paris is home to the sector leader and world’s biggest beauty company L’Oréal, in addition to luxury groups such as LVMH and Kering for whom Coty is a major supplier of perfumes....
...they had discussed offering a plum job in Monaco to judge Gilbert Azibert in exchange for information about another investigation involving the ex-president, his political allies and the late billionaire L’...
...A short walk away in the small church of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois, Notre-Dame rector Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas celebrated mass while eagerly anticipating his congregation’s return to the cathedral in two years...
...Some, such as French food retailer Auchan and its sister company hardware store Leroy Merlin, remain in the country, while others including L’Oréal and Philip Morris International took an intermediary route...
...Leila AbboudSo going back to the 1960s, France has had a system which they refer to as l’exception culturelle, which literally means the cultural exception....
...L’Oréal has predicted that its revenue growth will outpace the 4 to 5 per cent expansion of the global beauty market this year....
...Joanna Kao Leila Abboud is the FT’s Paris correspondent. Thanks, Leila. Leila Abboud Thank you....
...Given its low levels of debt, L’Oréal said it planned to pay a dividend of €4.80, its highest to date and a 20 per cent increase from a year ago....
...For example, PepsiCo, Danone, L’Oréal, Carlsberg, and Anheuser-Busch InBev are all still manufacturing and selling in Russia....
...In Pauillac, where Le Pen won the most votes in this year’s first round and in 2017, life-sized trompe l’oeil decals have been plastered on vacant shop windows to make it look as if art galleries and food...
...like Lancôme and L’Oréal Paris....
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud in Paris...
...Cosmetics groups L’Oréal and Estée Lauder illustrate the diverging response among consumer groups....
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