August 2023

Updated Aug. 18 at 1:37 p.m. The Estée Lauder Cos.’ full-year forecasts fell in need of Wall Street estimates as the corporate’s struggles to regain footing within the Asia travel market proceed, despite a greater than expected set of fourth-quarter results. Lauder, which has a much greater travel retail business than a few of its competitors, has seen Asia travel retail pressured by the slower-than-anticipated recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the favored vacation resort area Hainan. This in turn led its overall global travel business’ organic sales to slip 34 percent in its 2023 fiscal yr. At the identical time, U.S. sales have yet to climb back to pre-pandemic levels, while its California brands — Smashbox, Too Faced and Glamglow —...