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26 Dec

Makeup Artist Laura Geller on 25 Years within the

Makeup Artist Laura Geller on 25 Years within the
Laura Geller made her name as a makeup artist behind the camera, working on television and film sets within the ’90s. But she built her namesake brand in front of the camera, as one in every of beauty’s first breakout stars on QVC. She made her debut on the channel in 1997, quickly selling out of 750 units of her first collection on her very first show. Called The Face Structuring Kit, it was a three-piece contouring kit with bronzer, highlighter and brush. “I got here off the set and just collapsed crying — I had never sold 750 of anything in my whole life, let alone one stockkeeping unit,” said Geller recently, recalling those early days during a full of life...
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26 Dec

See the CEW 2020 Beauty Awards Winners – WWD

See the CEW 2020 Beauty Awards Winners – WWD
Despite the 12 months’s specific burdens on the sweetness industry, the CEW 2020 Beauty Awards proved the show must go on — even when done virtually over several days. The awards, which began on Nov. 12, were probably the most recent CEW event to happen online, following the Women’s Leadership Awards in October. The organization took advantage of the digital forum’s potential, setting the stage for the awards themselves with broader industry context. Starting the ceremony was a trend presentation from the NPD Group, which homed in on areas of growth in an otherwise difficult 12 months for sales. Larissa Jensen, vice chairman of beauty at NPD, introduced the trends with data on prestige beauty’s landscape, including that the market has...
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25 Dec

List by Beauty Inc – WWD

List by Beauty Inc – WWD
1 L’ORÉAL Clichy, France 2020 beauty sales: $31.95 billion €27.99 billion -6.3% vs. 2019 Most important Brands:Consumer Products: L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline Latest York, NYX Skilled Makeup, Stylenanda, Essie, Dark & Lovely, Mixa, Magic. L’Oréal Luxe: Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Kiehl’s, Biotherm, Urban Decay, Shu Uemura, It Cosmetics, Helena Rubinstein, Ralph Lauren, Viktor & Rolf, Diesel, Atelier Cologne, Valentino, Mugler, Azzaro, Prada. Skilled Products: L’Oréal Professionnel, Redken, Kérastase, Matrix, Pureology. Energetic Cosmetics: La Roche-Posay, Vichy, SkinCeuticals, CeraVe. Key Financials: Like-for-like sales: -4.1% Constant-currency sales: -3.6% Operating profit: €5.20 billion, -6.1% Net profit: €4.1 billion, -5.9% Sales by division: Skilled Products:€3.1 billion, -10%(-6.4% like-for-like) Consumer Products:€11.7 billion, -8.2%(-4.7% like-for-like) L’Oréal Luxe: €10.18 billion, -7.6%(-8.1% like-for-like) Energetic Cosmetics:€3.01 billion, +13%(+18.9% like-for-like) Sales bygeographic zone: Western Europe:€7.51 billion, -9.2%(-10.3% like-for-like) North America:€6.9 billion, -8.8%(-7.4% like-for-like) Asia Pacific: €9.8 billion, +1.5% (+3.5% like-for-like) Latin America: €1.47...
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25 Dec

Beiersdorf 2021 Sales Driven by Tesa, La Prairie and

Beiersdorf 2021 Sales Driven by Tesa, La Prairie and
PARIS — German consumer goods company Beiersdorf AG’s 2021 organic sales rose 9.7 percent to 7.63 billion euros, outpacing pre-pandemic levels of 2019. In reported terms, the Hamburg, Germany-based maker of Nivea products’ sales increased 8.6 percent, spurred by its Tesa, La Prairie and Derma businesses. Implied organic sales growth within the fourth quarter was around 2.6 percent, in keeping with Bernstein. “Beiersdorf seems to have had an OK end of the yr in organic growth…in step with consensus, but corporations reporting till now had material beats on organic growth,” wrote Bernstein analyst Bruno Monteyne in a note Tuesday. For the yr, Beiersdorf’s consolidated EBIT margin was up 10 basis points to 13 percent. The corporate’s Tesa Business Segment, producer of adhesives, posted organic growth...
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