Hints and tips:
...The last thing I bought and loved was 3,000 Eremophila nivea plants to fill the garden I’m cultivating at my home in Ibiza. They have this silken texture and purple flowers....
...I travel a lot and it’s great for soothing and restoring my skin after a long flight....
...They like solid performers such as Beiersdorf, the German consumer products group that owns Nivea, and Danone, the French food producer, as well as luxury brands, including Italy’s Moncler....
...Unilever, Beiersdorf (Nivea) and Henkel (German soap and glue) have had a tough time recently....
...Take Beiersdorf, which makes Nivea cosmetics....
...With face moisturisers priced between $15 and $25, these brands are more expensive than low-cost supermarket staples such as Nivea but cheaper than high-end brands....
...since I was 16, I have worn black eye make-up – first kohl paste, then I used to make my own from soot, something I discovered how to do in Morocco, and now I use a kohl pencil by Clarins, with a bit of Nivea...
...My once-fellow gardening columnist Stephen Lacey used to complain that the sweet scent of the white flowers smells like Nivea sun cream. I like the smell of Nivea....
...When an advertisement in which a young mother downs a gin cocktail in one long swallow gets a friendlier reception than one in which she exercises on a stationary bicycle at home, something has gone wrong...
...More significant in the long run may be their conflicting conclusions on what went wrong at their businesses, and how technology and data can fix it....
...“To increase our above-market growth and penetration over the long term despite the disruptions in the market, we are now focusing on executing our strategic programme,” said Mr De Loecker on Tuesday....
...However, the health benefits of sun cream application, for so long assumed to be an essential daily ritual, are suddenly under scrutiny....
...I also use Nivea and a little hair wax that I get from my hairdresser, Fourth Floor. Dior Eau Sauvage, £55 for 50ml EDT; dior.com....
...The days when traineeships at P&G, Unilever or Nestlé were the most coveted are long gone....
...At Ryanair, chief executive Michael O’Leary has long talked about turning his low-cost airline into “the Amazon of travel”....
...The five were Nivea owner Beiersdorf, tobacco company Imperial, brewer Carlsberg, distiller Diageo and the food group Danone....
...“These practices cannot last and will only result eventually in poor financial performance and further consolidation, the premium being on long-term profitable growth,” WPP cautioned this week....
...“The market has cooled on staples and in as much as it wants to own them, it wants to be long the US and short emerging markets.”...
...Beiersdorf, the German maker of Nivea skin creams, was top of the Eurofirst – up 4.7 per cent to €72.98 after reporting strong gains in China and forecasting a good fourth quarter for its consumer business...
...Now Olay, L’Oreal and Nivea have been shamed in official media for having too much air where they ought to have facecream....
...But its long-time anchor investor – the Herz family, which also owns the Tchibo coffee brand – would have to be a willing seller....
...Shares in Beiersdorf , the German maker of Nivea beauty products, were traded heavily, and rose 0.5 per cent to €57.86....
...India’s traditional ideals of beauty have long placed high value on fair skin, which has fuelled a $466m a year business in creams such as Unilever’s market leader Fair & Lovely which ostensibly help women...
...If we are convinced about the long-term investment case of the stock then we are invested, or if we don’t like it then we are not going to be invested.”...
...A week long rally in European equities was drawn to a halt by sovereign debt fears as Moody’s, the credit rating agency, said it might downgrade Spanish government debt....
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