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...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...
...Nicolas Hieronimus said he expected industry-wide price rises to fall back to about 5 per cent in 2024, in line with pre-pandemic averages, from a sector average of 8 per cent in 2023 as the cost of supplies...
...Following a recent trip to China, L’Oréal chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said he “was not super impressed by the market [because] as everyone says it has been a bit slow to recover” from harsh Covid-...
...Chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said the world’s largest beauty group had firepower left after buying the Australian maker of $40 soaps in April, pointing out that only three of the company’s 36 global...
...executive Nicolas Hieronimus told the Financial Times in an interview last year....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...“Nicolas Sarkozy is innocent of these charges . . ....
...As a L’Oréal lifer, Nicolas Hieronimus was schooled in the French beauty company’s slow-and-steady dealmaking tradition....
...The companion portraits on either side, and the trompe-l’oeil murals of deluxe drapery, are fresh from the hand of Swiss pastel virtuoso Nicolas Party....
...We plonked ourselves down on the warm cobbles of the harbour front and, through crêpes heaped with Nutella and sliced banana, admired the twin towers — the Tour Saint-Nicolas and Tour de la Chaîne — that...
...It is the first acquisition of significant size for L’Oréal under chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus, who took the helm of the world’s biggest cosmetics maker in May 2021....
...“December and January were very low [in terms of] consumption . . . but from the first weeks of February we saw positive signs in terms of traffic,” chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said on Friday....
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column: UK success is not because it’s become multicultural / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand...
...Nicolas Audebert, manager of the Chanel wine estates here and in Bordeaux, shares the island’s folklore as we zip around on his speedboat....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...Prized possessions included a luxury Paris property acquired from the aristocratic Pozzo di Borgo family on Rue de l’Université and a fleet of luxury cars, including Ferraris and Mercedes....
...But then you tell people that tourism comes from the Grand Tour – and you get their attention,” says Nicolas Bos, president and CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels, who has long been fascinated by the tradition....
...Nicolas Huchard’s La Diva aux pieds nus expended five dancers and 30 minutes pondering “the collective will to celebrate women in their individuality and vitality”....
...Do not, he warned, be fooled by the “candidat de l’étranger” — the foreign candidate....
...Also pushing boundaries is Guerlain, which has collaborated with the Yves Klein Archives to create a 110th anniversary edition of its L’Heure Bleue perfume (€15,000)....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...L’Oréal: Its $2.5bn acquisition of luxury Australian soap maker Aesop is Nicolas Hieronimus’s boldest strategic move as the French group’s chief executive....
...One is L’Oste della Bon’Ora in Grottaferrata (a town in the heart of the Roman Castles area), which offers a real gourmet experience with reinterpretations of traditional dishes from the Lazio region....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...Likewise, at Louis Vuitton, Nicolas Ghesquière elevated staples with details such as supersized zippers and poppers....
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