# L’Oréal

> L’Oréal is a French beauty group that develops and sells skincare, makeup, haircare, hair color and fragrance through roughly 40 international brands and four divisions. Its advantage is not one blockbuster label but a repeatable system that combines beauty science, brand storytelling, acquisitions, local market execution and distribution from supermarkets to salons, pharmacies, luxury counters and ecommerce. In 2025 it reached €44.05 billion in sales, and in the first half of 2026 it reported €23.77 billion in sales while pushing deeper into AI, personalized diagnostics, dermatology, luxury fragrance and refillable formats.

- **Founded:** 1909
- **Headquarters:** Clichy, France
- **Founders:** Eugène Schueller (Founder and chemist)
- **Team size:** More than 95,000 employees worldwide, including about 4,000 scientists and more than 8,000 digital, tech and data specialists
- **Products:** Consumer Products, L’Oréal Luxe, Dermatological Beauty, Professional Products, ModiFace and Beauty Tech services
- **Notable:** Ranked the world’s largest beauty company by sales., Generated €44.05 billion in sales in 2025 across four divisions and roughly 40 international brands., Reached about 1.3 billion consumers across more than 150 countries.

## Products & services

- **Consumer Products** — Mass-market makeup, skincare, haircare and hair color sold through retail and ecommerce under brands including L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York and NYX Professional Makeup.
- **L’Oréal Luxe** — Luxury fragrance, makeup and skincare through owned brands and long-term beauty licences, including Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Prada Beauty, Kiehl’s and Aesop.
- **Dermatological Beauty** — Science-led skincare distributed through pharmacies, healthcare channels, medical professionals, ecommerce and direct channels, including CeraVe, La Roche-Posay, Vichy and SkinCeuticals.
- **Professional Products** — Hair color, care and styling products plus education and services for salons and professional stylists, including L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken and Matrix.
- **ModiFace and Beauty Tech services** — Virtual try-on, skin and hair diagnostics, personalized recommendations and digital services used across L’Oréal brands; L’Oréal acquired ModiFace in 2018.
- **Cell BioPrint** — A skin assessment device developed with NanoEnTek that estimates biological skin age and responsiveness to ingredients to guide preventive skincare.
- **HAPTA** — A motion-stabilizing computerized makeup applicator from Lancôme designed for people with limited hand and arm mobility.

## Achievements

- Ranked the world’s largest beauty company by sales.
- Generated €44.05 billion in sales in 2025 across four divisions and roughly 40 international brands.
- Reached about 1.3 billion consumers across more than 150 countries.
- Named the most innovative company in Europe in Fortune’s 2025 ranking of 300 companies.
- Recognized as one of Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2026 for the 17th time.
- Built a Research & Innovation organization of about 4,000 scientists and 21 research centers.
- Pioneered reconstructed human skin for non-animal safety assessment beginning in the late 1970s and stopped testing finished products on animals in 1989.
- Reported 120 million-plus uses of Beauty Tech services across 66 countries and 31 brands.
- Reported first-half 2026 operating margin of 21.3%, a company record for the period.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Reported €23.77 billion in first-half sales, 6.5% adjusted like-for-like growth and a 21.3% operating margin.
- **2026-07** — Entered a 50-year exclusive worldwide licence to create, develop and distribute Gucci fragrances and beauty products from July 2027, subject to approvals.
- **2026-06** — Announced plans to acquire a majority stake in Indian digital-first personal-care company Innovist.
- **2026-06** — Announced an OpenAI collaboration spanning virtual try-on, product discovery, AI commerce, microbiome research and creative production.
- **2026-06** — Expanded #JoinTheRefillMovement across four divisions, 18 brands and 28 products.
- **2026-04** — Announced a research partnership with Institut Pasteur to advance skin-health science.
- **2026-03** — Expanded its NVIDIA partnership into predictive computational chemistry for ingredient and formulation discovery.
- **2026-01** — Selected the first 13 startups and small businesses for the €100 million L’AcceleratOR sustainable innovation program.

## Links

- Website: https://www.loreal.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lor%C3%A9al/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Loreal
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lorealgroupe
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorealgroupe/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beautyforallbyloreal

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Last updated: 2026-08-13