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Over the past 18 months, global beauty groups placed increasingly large bets on the Indian market with Unilever and L’Oréal being the most active. Unilever acquired Minimalist for $342m in January 2025 which was at the time the largest transaction in the country’s beauty sector until L’Oréal announced last week a majority investment in Innovist,…
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Last week in beauty L’Oréal dominated the fragrance foundation awards and doubled down on India.
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After two years of contraction, Chinese consumption of luxury goods appears to be recovering. According to Oliver Wyman, a net 31% of Chinese consumers are willing to spend more on personal luxury goods in 2026, compared to a net contraction of -6% in 2025 and -2% in 2024. This evolution comes improving consumer confidence, favorable…
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According to data from Spate, the leading AI-powered consumer trend intelligence platform, L’Oréal owns four of the ten most popular skincare brands online over the past twelve months, based on combined activity across Google, TikTok and Instagram. The group also holds the top two spots with La Roche-Posay and CeraVe, which also happen to be…
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Last week, The Fragrance Foundation announced its Awards for 2026, the industry’s main event for recognizing creativity among brands, perfumers and manufacturers. The ceremony includes a public prize, based on an online survey of a few thousand consumers but as I wanted a clearer picture of what people preferred among recent perfumes, I pulled and…
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The global beauty industry grew 8% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, according to data from NielsenIQ’s “Beauty E-commerce 2026: The New Rules of Growth” webinar. The overall number matters less than where it came from.
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Nielsen’s 2026 ranking of top online beauty merchants in Western Europe, based on a consumer panel through the end of April, confirms one trend from last year and introduces a new one.
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At the 2026 Fragrance Foundation Awards, L’Oréal won eight prizes across five brands Valentino, Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, and Ralph Lauren which makes the group last year’s 3 wins look modest by comparison. Estée Lauder held its ground with three wins (Tom Ford Oud Voyager, Jo Malone Beach Blossom, and Frédéric Malle Portrait…
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From Jay-Z looking to buy LVMH stake in Fenty Beauty to the first new sunscreen ingredient approved by the FDA in decades this was last week in beauty.
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Retreated data from an early 2026 YouGov survey show that more than 40% of adult Americans do not spend anything on skincare. The gender split sharpens this further. The same data shows men are more than twice as likely as women to say they spend nothing on skincare in a given month. Another 35% spend…