Cosmetics

LUSH Cosmetics, a British chain which creates and sells ethical bath products, saw its yearly turnover increase 11.3 % this past fiscal year. Profits dropped however, mainly because of additional investments in sustainability and charity.

French cosmetics giant L’Oréal has created a Group Travel Retail Division. With the move, the number one in cosmetics hopes to stimulate sales in the fast growing ‘travel retail beauty segment’.

French cosmetics group L'Oréal has started a new interactive marketing campaign in the New York subway. Passers-by are presented with specific products using several screens and a mirror with cameras and can even possible to purchase the items on the spot.

France’s largest perfumery, the Sephora store on the Champs-Elysées, will be forced to close its doors at 21h from next week onwards. If the store fails to comply and continues to be open till midnight, there will be a penalty of 80,000 euro for each violation.

Barely two weeks after his comeback as head of the world’s largest company of consumer goods, CEO of Procter & Gamble A.G. Lafley has made some big changes: the structure of the group will be simplified and the four divisions all get a new manager, who will report directly to the big chief.

CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault, who said he wanted to get a Belgian passport in September of last year, now declared in an interview with French paper Le Monde he no longer intends to go through with it.