- CEO
- Nicolas Hieronimus
- Full Time Employees
- 94,397
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Household & Personal Products
- Address
- 41, rue Martre Clichy France 92117
- IPO Date
- Apr 26, 2010
- Business
- L'Oréal S.A. (LRLCF) ranks as the world's largest cosmetics company, developing, manufacturing and marketing a broad portfolio of beauty products including skincare, makeup, haircare, hair colorants, fragrances, sunscreens and body care items across four divisions: Professional Products, Consumer Products, L'Oréal Luxe and Dermatological Beauty. The company offers mass-market brands such as L'Oréal Paris, Garnier and Maybelline New York; luxury lines including Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Giorgio Armani Beauty and Kiehl's; professional haircare brands like Kérastase, Redken and L'Oréal Professionnel; and dermatological beauty products from La Roche-Posay, Vichy and CeraVe. With 37 global brands, L'Oréal operates in over 150 countries through diverse channels encompassing e-commerce, mass market, department stores, pharmacies, perfumeries, hair salons, branded and travel retail, targeting consumers, professionals and pharmacies worldwide.
Founded in 1909 by chemist Eugène Schueller and headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, France, L'Oréal employs over 90,000 people and maintains a multipolar presence with significant operations in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and emerging markets.
In recent developments, L'Oréal announced a landmark €4 billion strategic partnership with Kering on October 19, 2025, encompassing the acquisition of the House of Creed to bolster its niche fragrance leadership, 50-year exclusive licenses for Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga beauty and fragrance products, and a 50/50 joint venture to explore luxury wellness and longevity opportunities, with closing anticipated in the first half of 2026. The company pursued further growth through majority stakes in UK-based Medik8 premium skincare and US prestige haircare brand CalaWow, alongside acquisitions of sustainability tech firm Gjosa and a stake in Korean cosmetics brand Dr.G in 2024. L'Oréal advanced its Beauty Tech and innovation agenda with over €1 billion annual IT investments, new launches like Lancôme's Absolute Longevity Cream featuring rose DNA extraction, and a research collaboration with Galderma on non-invasive skin imaging, while reporting €43.48 billion in 2024 sales with 5.6% growth and sustained double-digit category expansions in skincare, haircare and makeup into 2025.