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L’Oréal appoints first-ever chief innovation and prospective officer

Beauty company L’Oréal has appointed Delphine Viguier-Hovasse to the newly created position of chief innovation and prospective officer to strengthen the group’s innovation leadership. Viguier-Hovasse, a trained engineer, joined L’Oréal back in 1997 and currently serves as global brand president of L’Oréal Paris. She will take up her new role on...

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Juicy Couture renews fragrance license with Revlon

Fashion and lifestyle brand Juicy Couture, part of the Authentic Brands Group portfolio, has renewed its long-standing global licensing deal with Revlon Consumer Products LLC. The renewal will see the US beauty company continuing to produce and market all Juicy Couture fragrance pillars worldwide. The new agreement also supports an expanded...

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Despite 2024 struggles, THG CEO optimistic after Ingenuity demerger

THG has highlighted a transformative year marked by strategic progress, operational resilience, and balance sheet deleveraging in its preliminary results for the financial year ended December 31, 2024. The company also announced results for the first-quarter of fiscal 2025. Key headlines include FY 2024 pre-demerger revenue of 1.88 billion...

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Puig maintains outlook after opening year with sales increase of 7.8 percent

Madrid – Even with a blackout and unprecedented problems in communications networks in the history of Spain, the fashion and beauty multinational Puig responded to its scheduled meeting with investors. As planned, it presented the sales figures recorded during the first quarter of its new fiscal year of 2025 on Monday, after the markets closed....

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Coty to cut 700 jobs as part of business overhaul

Beauty giant Coty has confirmed that the next phase of its ongoing transformation programme will impact approximately 700 positions as it looks to continue simplifying its fixed cost structure. The exact roles affected were not disclosed in the press release. The initiative builds on the company’s long-running ‘All-in to Win’ programme, first...

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Dana Medema to lead Revlon North America starting May 2025

Beauty company Revlon has appointed Dana Medema as president of North America, effective May 5, 2025. She will report directly to chief executive officer Michelle Peluso. Medema most recently served as senior vice president and head of personal health – North America at Philips. Geralyn Breig, who joined Revlon in 2023 to lead the region’s...

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London leads as Europe’s style and wellness capital, new study finds

A new pan-European analysis from beauty brand Catrice has cast a data-driven spotlight on the shifting intersection of fashion, beauty, and wellness across the continent — with London emerging as Europe’s definitive style capital, combining a high density of beauty services, wellness interest, and social media clout. The study, which evaluated...

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Unilever acquires personal care brand Wild

Consumer goods company Unilever has acquired British personal care brand Wild for an undisclosed amount. In a statement, Unilever said the acquisition marks another step in optimising its portfolio towards “premium and high growth spaces” as part of its Growth Action Plan 2030. Launched in the UK in 2020, Wild is a digitally native brand that...

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Charlotte Tilbury expands reach in the US with Bluemercury

Charlotte Tilbury, the award-winning global luxury make-up, skincare and fragrance brand founded by British entrepreneur and make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, part of the Spanish fashion and beauty group Puig, has launched at US luxury beauty retailer Bluemercury. The US is one of the beauty brand’s biggest markets and its key products,...

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Nautica expands into women’s fragrance market

American lifestyle brand Nautica has expanded its reach in the fragrance category with the launch of two new products for women as part of an existing partnership with cosmetics giant Coty. Dubbed ‘Rose Island’ and ‘Jasmine Coast’, the two new scents intend to reflect the brand’s “coastal cultural heritage”, a press release stated, with each...

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Boots owner WBA agrees to 23.7 billion dollar buyout deal

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), the parent company of British pharmaceutical chain Boots, has come to a definitive agreement to be acquired by a subsidiary associated with private equity firm Sycamore Partners. The deal, with a transaction valued at 23.7 billion dollars, will ultimately take WBA private, removing the company’s listing from the...

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Louis Vuitton taps Pat McGrath to lead its debut beauty line

French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton is launching into beauty and has tapped acclaimed British make-up artist Pat McGrath as its first creative director of cosmetics. In a statement, Louis Vuitton said that ‘La Beauté Louis Vuitton’ was an “exciting venture” for the fashion house and would expand its vision “rooted in the spirit of travel...