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Garnier

Garnier

Type cosmetics, hair care

Founded 1904

Garnier (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁnje]) is a mass market cosmetics brand of L'Oréal that produces hair care and skin care products. The company started as Laboratoires Garnier in 1904, and was acquired by L'Oréal in the 1970s.[1] Current product lines include Fructis shampoos and conditioners, and Nutrisse hair

color.[2] Garnier is sold in numerous countries wordwide, with specific product lines targeted for different skin types and cultures.[3][4] In 2011, Garnier partnered with TerraCycle to promote upcycling of product containers and the introduction of biodegradableproducts.[5][6]

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1 Advertising o 1.1 Slogans

1.1.1 Other languages 2 References 3 External links [edit]Advertising

Tina Fey has produced commercials for the Nutrisse hair color line.[7][8] The Transplants song "Diamonds and Guns" is played as the background music in many Garnier commercials.[citation needed]

[edit]Slogans

English: "Take Care"; "For hair that shines with all its strength" (Fructis); "Great skin from the inside out" (skincare)

[edit]Other languages"Take Care":

L'OréalFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Loreal" redirects here. This can also be the adjective related to lore.

L'Oréal S.A.

Type Société Anonyme

Traded as

Euronext: OR

Industry Personal care

Founded

1909

Founde Eugène Schueller

r(s)

Headquarters

Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

Jean-Paul Agon (Chairman andCEO), Liliane Bettencourt (Non-executive director and major shareholder) Natalia Streignard

Products

Cosmetics and beautyproducts

Revenue

€19.50 billion (2010)[1]

Operating

€3.057 billion (2010)[1]

income

Profit €2.240 billion (2010)[1]

Total assets

€24.04 billion (end 2010)[1]

Total equity

€14.87 billion (end 2010)[1]

Employees

66,620 (end 2010)[1]

Subsidiaries

The Body Shop

Website loreal.com

The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company.[2] With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb ofClichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France,[3] it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics. Concentrating on hair colour, skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfumes and hair care, the company is

active in the dermatological, tissue engineering and pharmaceutical fields and is the top nanotechnologypatent-holder in the United States.[4]

L'Oréal is a listed company, but the founder's daughter Liliane Bettencourt and the Swiss food company Nestlé each control around 30 percent of the shares and voting rights.[5]

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1 History 2 Business o 2.1 Corporate governance

2.1.1 Board of directors 2.1.2 Management committee

o 2.2 Stockholders o 2.3 Sales, profits, etc. o 2.4 Joint ventures and minority interests o 2.5 Community involvement and awards

3 Research and Innovation 4 Claims of racial discrimination in advertising, and other litigation5 World War II controversy 6 Modern controversy 7 Brands 8 Spokesmodels o 8.1 Spokeswomen o 8.2 Spokesmen

9 Head office

10 See also 11 References 12 External links [edit]History

In 1907, Eugène Schueller, a young French chemist and future La Cagoule supporter, developed a hair dye formula called Auréale. Schueller formulated and manufactured his own products, which he then sold to Parisian hairdressers.

On 31 July 1919, Schueller registered his company, the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux ("Safe Hair Dye Company of France" literally "French Society of Inoffensive Tinctures for Hair"), the original L’Oréal. The guiding principles of the company, which eventually became L’Oréal, were research and innovation in the field of beauty.

In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984 and is nearly 2,000 today.

L’Oréal got its start in the hair-color business, but the company soon branched out into other cleansing and beauty products. L’Oréal currently markets over 500 brands and many thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty business: hair color, permanents, hair styling, body and skin care, cleansers, makeup and fragrances. The company's products are found in a wide variety of distribution channels, from hair salons and perfumeries to hyper - and supermarkets, health/beauty outlets, pharmacies and direct mail.

L’Oréal has five worldwide research and development centers: two in France: Aulnay and Chevilly; one in the U.S.: Clark, New Jersey; one in Japan: Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture; and in 2005, one was established in Shanghai, China. A future facility in the US will be in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

From 1988 to 1989, L'Oréal controlled the film company Paravision, whose properties included the Filmation and De

Laurentiis libraries. StudioCanal acquired the Paravision properties in 1994.

L’Oréal purchased Synthélabo in 1973 to pursue its ambitions in the pharmaceutical field. Synthélabo merged with Sanofi in 1999 to become Sanofi-Synthélabo. Sanofi-Synthélabo merged withAventis in 2004 to become Sanofi-Aventis.

On 17 March 2006, L'Oréal purchased cosmetics company The Body Shop for £562 million.

The company has recently faced discrimination lawsuits in France related to the hiring of spokesmodels and institutional racism. In the UK, L'Oréal has faced widespread condemnation fromOFCOM regarding truth in their advertising and marketing campaigns concerning the product performance of one of their mascara brands.

L'Oréal's famous advertising slogan is "Because I'm worth it". In the mid 2000s, this was replaced by "Because you're worth it". In

late 2009, the slogan was changed again to "Because we're worth it" following motivation analysis and work into consumer psychology of Dr. Maxim Titorenko. The shift to "we" was made to create stronger consumer involvement in L'Oréal philosophy and lifestyle and provide more consumer satisfaction with L'Oréal products. L'Oréal also owns a Hair and Body products line for kids called L'Oréal Kids, the slogan for which is "Because we're worth it too".

Protest group Naturewatch states that L'Oréal continues to test new ingredients on animals.[6] The company states that no animal testing for finished products has taken place since 1989 and that L'Oreal has invested significantly in alternative methods for chemical safety testing,[7] though they implicitly acknowledge that they continue to perform animal testing of ingredients.[8]

Following L'Oréal's purchase of The Body Shop, who continue to be against animal testing, The Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick was forced to defend herself against allegations of abandoning her principles over

L'Oréal's track record on animal testing. Calls were made for shoppers to boycott The Body Shop.[9]

L'Oreal has made quite a few statements on claims of animal testing.[10]

In 1987, L'Oréal and 3 Suisses founded Le Club des Créateurs de Beauté specializing in mail order sales of cosmetic products.

February 2011: L'Oreal will have the largest factory in the Jababeka Industrial Park, Cikarang, Indonesia with total investment of US$50 million and it will be ready in October 2011. The production will be absorbed 25 percent by domestic market and the rest will be exported. In 2010 significant growth occurred at Indonesia with 61 percent increase of unit sales or 28 percent of net sales.[11]

[edit]Business

[edit]Corporate governance[edit]Board of directorsCurrent members of the board of directors of L’Oréal[12] are:

Jean-Paul Agon , Chairman and CEO since 18 March 2011, Director

Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Honorary Chairman & Director

Jean-Pierre Meyers, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Director Paul Bulcke, Director Charles-Henri Filippi, Director Xavier Fontanet, Director Bernard Kasriel, Director Christiane Kuehne, Director Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, Director Jean-Victor Meyers, Director Annette Roux, Director Louis Schweitzer, Director[edit]Management committeeThe management committee includes:

Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Laurent Attal, EVP Research and Innovation

Jean-Philippe Blanpain, Managing Director Operations

Nicolas Hieronimus, Managing Director L'Oreal Luxe

Jean-Jacques Lebel, President Consumer Products division

Brigitte Liberman, President Cosmetic Active division

Marc Menesguen, Managing Director Strategic Marketing

Christian Mulliez, EVP Administration and Finances

Alexandre Popoff, Managing Director Latine America Zone

Sara Ravella, Managing Director Corporate Communications

Frederic Rozé, Managing Director North American zone

Geoff Skingsley, Managing Director Africa and Middle East zone

An Verhulst-Santos, Managing Director Professional Product division

Jérôme Tixier, Managing Director Human Resources and Advisor to the President

Johen Zaumsel, Managing Director Asia Pacific zone

[edit]StockholdersAs at year end 2010:[1]

Breakdown of share ownership: 30.9% by the Bettencourt family, 29.7% by Nestlé, 1.9% treasury shares, 0.7% company savings plan, and the remaining 36.8% is public.

[edit]Sales, profits, etc.In 2003, L’Oréal announced its 19th consecutive year of double-digit growth. Its consolidated sales was €14.029 bn and net profit was €1.653 bn. 96.7% of sales derived from cosmetic activities and 2.5% from dermatological activities. L’Oréal has operations in over 130 countries, employing 50,500 people, 24% of which work in France. 3.3% of consolidated sales is invested in research and development, which accounts for 2,900 of its employees. In 2003, it applied for 515 patents. It operates 42 manufacturing plants throughout the world, which employ 14,000 people.

Cosmetics sales by division breakdown: 54.8% from consumer products at €7.506 bn, 25.1% from luxury products at €3.441 bn, 13.9% from professional products at €1.9 bn, and 5.5% from active cosmetics at €0.749 bn.

Cosmetic sales by geographic zone breakdown: 52.7% from Western Europe at €7.221 bn, 27.6% from North America at €3.784 bn, 19.7% from rest of the world at €2.699 bn.

In 2007, L’Oréal was ranked 353 in the Fortune Global 500.[13] The company had earned $2,585 million on sales of $19,811 million. There were 60,850 employees.[13]

[edit]Joint ventures and minority interestsL’Oréal holds 10.41% of the shares of Sanofi-Aventis, the world's number 3 and Europe's number 1 pharmaceutical company. The Laboratoires Innéov is a joint venture in nutritional cosmetics between L’Oréal and Nestlé; they draw on L’Oréal's knowledge in the fields of nutrition and food safety.

Galderma is another joint venture in dermatology between L'Oréal and Nestlé.

[edit]Community involvement and awardsIn 2008, L'Oréal was named Europe's top business employer by The European Student Barometer,[14] a survey conducted by Trendence that covers 20 European countries and incorporates the responses of over 91,000 students.

The L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science was established to improve the position of women in science by recognizing outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress.

The awards are a result of a partnership between the French cosmetics company L'Oréal and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and carry a grant of $100,000 USD for each laureate. [1]

The same partnership awards the UNESCO-L'Oréal International Fellowships, providing up to $40,000 USD in funding over two years

to fifteen young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising research projects.[15]

L'Oréal organizes every year the L'Oréal Brandstorm, an acknowledged business game for students in 43 countries. The game is related to marketing and has a first prize of $10,000, a second prize of $5,000 and a third prize of $2500.

L'Oréal is also involved in the "Look Good...Feel Better"- project which is a Beauty Industry Charity which was formed over 16 years ago to help woman combat the visible side effects of their cancer treatment of which L'Oréal is a founder member.

[edit]Research and Innovation

The aim for L’Oréal is to produce products that cater to their diverse customers specifically, in the emerging markets that currently account for 53% of the entire global beauty market [16]. Through these research methods L’Oréal aims to tap into one billion new consumers [16] in these markets in the upcoming years.

In 2003, the L’Oréal Institute for Ethnic Hair & Skin Research was inaugurated in Chicago to continue their research on African American hair and skin among other ethnicities [17]. The L’OréalGroup opened the Predictive Evaluation Center in Lyon, France in 2011. This center is devoted to evaluating the quality of the products without testing on animals [18]. Additionally, L’Oréal built an international “Consumer Insights” division as well as, regional Research and Innovation centers in six countries: Japan, China, India, the United States, Brazil, and France [19]. The aim of these centers’ is to collect information on their diverse consumers in order to develop products according to their various needs. In 2011, L’Oréal announced its intention to build a Research and Innovation Center in Bom Jesus Island Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Estimated at 30 million euros (70,000,000 reals), this project is expected to create about 150 jobs by 2015 [20].

[edit]Claims of racial discrimination in advertising, and other litigation

On 11 August 2005, the Supreme Court of California ruled that former L'Oréal sales manager Elyse Yanowitz had adequately pleaded a cause of action for retaliatory termination under theCalifornia Fair Employment and Housing Act, and remanded the case for trial.[21] The case arose out of a 1997 incident in which Jack Wiswall, then the general manager for designer fragrances, allegedly told Yanowitz to fire a dark-skinned sales associate despite the associate's good performance. When Yanowitz refused, Wiswall pointed to a "sexy" blonde-haired woman and said, "...get me one that looks like that." Wiswall retired as president of the luxury products division of L'Oréal USA at the end of 2006.

In May 2007, L'Oréal was one of several cosmetic manufacturers ordered by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia to withdraw advertising regarding

the wrinkle removal capabilities of their products.[22]

In July 2007, the Garnier division and an external employment agency were fined €30,000 for recruitment practices that intentionally excluded non-white women from promoting its shampoo, "Fructis Style".[23] L'Oréal is reported as saying the decision was "incomprehensible",[24] and would challenge the measure in court.

In July 2007, the British Advertising Standards Authority attacked L'Oréal for a television advert on its “Telescopic” mascara, featuring Penélope Cruz, stating "it will make your eyelashes 60% longer." In fact, it only made the lashes look 60% bigger, by separating and thickening at the roots and by thickening the tips of the lashes. They also failed to state that the model was wearingfalse eyelashes.[25]

In July 2011, the British Advertising Standards Authority took action against L'Oréal, banning two airbrushed Lancôme advertisements in the

UK featuring actress Julia Roberts and supermodelChristy Turlington. The agency issued the ban after British politician Jo Swinson argued that the two ads misrepresented reality and added to the self-image problem amongst females in the UK. L'Oréal acknowledged that the photos had been airbrushed but argued that the two cosmetic products could actually produce the results depicted in the ads and that the results of the products had been scientifically proven.[26]

[edit]World War II controversy

Eugène Schueller, the company's founder, was a Nazi sympathizer.[27] L'Oreal concedes that Schueller was an anti-Semitic fascist.[28] He was also a member of La Cagoule, which supported theVichy regime, and was a violent, pro-fascist and anti-communist organization. Eugène bankrolled La Cagoule and some meetings of La Cagoule were held at L'Oreal headquarters. Some of the criminal activities perpetrated by La Cagoule include firearms transportation, assassinating a

former minister, and firebombing six Synagogues.[29][30]

Other controversy arose when Jean Frydman, a shareholder and board member of Paravision, a film subsidiary of L'Oreal, was fired. He claims that he was let go because L'Oreal wanted to avoid an Arab boycott of businesses associated with Jews. In turn, Frydman decided to expose the past of L'Oreal executives. André Bettencourt who married Schueller's daughter, Liliane Bettencourt, and became deputy chairman for L'Oreal, wrote 60 articles for La Terre Française. La Terre Française was an anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda sheet. André has admitted ownership of thepropaganda but claimed he was poisoned by the Vichy regime and said, "I have repeatedly expressed my regrets concerning them in public and will always beg the Jewish community to forgive me for them."[29] André Bettencourt also sheltered Schueller and several collaborators from the French Resistance after Liberation.[30] It was also revealed that Eugene Schuller hired Jacques Correze, who as of 2001, was

the honorary head of L'Oreal's U.S. affiliate, Cosmair, and was involved with La Cagoule.[28]

Further controversy arose when it was revealed that L'Oreal had its German headquarters for over 30 years, before being sold in 1991, on land confiscated from Jews during WWII. The Jewish family has been battling for restitution from the company for three generations, the latest of which is Edith Rosenfelder, a Holocaust survivor. Fritz Rosenfelder, was forced to sell the house to a Nazi official, of which the family never received the proceeds of the sale. Instead, the family was deported. The allies passed Jewish restitution legislation which says that transactions, even if appearing to be with the owner's consent, can be considered invalid. As the land was sold to an offshoot of L'Oreal, which was later bought out in 1961 by L'Oreal, the company claims that it is not responsible for anything that happened before then. The basis for Rosenfelder's argument is that since the original sale was illegal, all subsequent sales are equally unlawful. There

was restitution paid in 1951 to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, but this was done without the family's consent and none of the money ever reached the family. A book by Monica Waitzfelder, daughter of Edith Rosenfelder, published in French as L'Oréal a pris ma maison and in English as L'Oréal stole my house!, details how L'Oréal, took over the Waitzfelder home in the German city of Karlsruhe (after the Nazis had engineered the removal of the family) to make it its German headquarters.[31] Monica Waitzfelder is quoted as saying, "All the other businesses which took Jewish property have since returned it, without any great debate. I don't understand why L'Oréal should be any different from the others." A case was brought before the Supreme Court in France, but the public prosecutor ruled that there could be no trial. As of 2007, she is bringing the case to the European Court of Human Rights.[30][31]

[edit]Modern controversy

Most recently, L'Oreal appeared on the list published by the US congress of companies that support the SOPA bill in 2011.[32]

Additionally, L'Oreal, along with Mary Kay and Avon, is currently resuming animal testing on its products as it prepares for the market in China.[33]

[edit]Brands

Brands are generally categorized by their targeted markets, such as the mass, professional, luxury, and active cosmetics markets. The Body Shop and Galderma are directly attached to the head office. L'Oréal also owns interests in various activities such as fine chemicals, health, finance, design, advertising, insurance.[34]

Professional products

L'Oréal Professionnel, including ARTec and Innate

Kérastase (created by L'Oreal in 1964)

Kéraskin Esthetics, created by L'Oreal in 2007 and specializing in skin care professionals.

Redken 5th Avenue NYC, founded by Paula Kent and Jheri Redding in 1960 and acquired by L'Oreal in 1993.

Matrix Essentials, founded by Arnie Miller in 1980 and acquired by L'Oreal in 2000.

Mizani, founded in 1991 and bought by L'Oreal in 2001.

PureOlogy Research, founded in 2001 and acquired by L'Oreal in 2007.

Shu Uemura Art of HairL'Oreal Luxe

Lancôme Yves Saint Laurent Giorgio Armani Biotherm Cacharel Diesel Maison Martin Margiela Viktor & Rolf Ralph Lauren Kiehl's

Shu Uemura Stella McCartney Clarisonic Paloma Picasso Drakkar noir Urban DecayConsumer products

L’Oréal Paris Ombrelle Garnier Maybelline SoftSheen-Carson Le Club des Créateurs de Beauté EssieActive cosmetics

Vichy La Roche Posay Inneov Skinceuticals Roger&Gallet Sanoflore

[edit]Spokesmodels

Following are current spokesmodels for the L'Oreal cosmetics brand around the world.[35][36][37][38][39][40]

[edit]Spokeswomen Bianca Balti

 Leïla Bekhti

 Fan Bingbing

 Paola Oliveira

 Laetitia Casta

 Cheryl Cole

 Inès de la Fressange

 Jane Fonda

 Taís Araújo

 Megan Gale

 Milla Jovovich

 Sonam Kapoor

 Najwa Karam

 Diane Keaton

 Liya Kebede

 Beyoncé Knowles

 Doutzen Kroes

 Diane Kruger

 Gong Li

 Hebe Tien

 Evangeline Lilly

 Eva Longoria

 Jennifer Lopez

 Andie MacDowell

 Grazi Massafera

 Alinne Moraes

 Luiza Brunet

 Bianca Manalo

 Julianna Margulies

 Aimee Mullins

 Barbara Palvin

 Freida Pinto

 Natasha Poly

 Aishwarya Rai

 Dian Sastrowardoyo

 Claudia Schiffer

 Gwen Stefani

 Paz Vega

 Rachel Weisz

 Michelle Yeoh

 Lea Michele

 Ximena Navarrete

[edit]Spokesmen Gerard Butler

 Patrick Dempsey

 Hugh Laurie

 Nicholas Saputra

[edit]Head office

Centre Eugène Schueller, L'Oréal head office, in Clichy, France

L'Oréal Group has its head office in the Centre Eugène Schueller in Clichy, Hauts-de-

Seine, near Paris.[41] The building, constructed in the 1970s from brick and steel, replaced the former Monsavon factory, and employees moved into the facility in 1978. 1,400 employees work in the building.[42] The building is often referred to as the ""[clarification

needed] by the public. In 2005, Nils Klawitter of Der Spiegel said "the building, with its brown glazed façade of windows, is every bit as ugly as its neighborhood." Klawitter added that the facility "gives the impression of a high-security zone" due to the CCTV cameras and security equipment. The world's largest hair salon is located inside the head office building. As of 2005, 90 hairdressers served 300 women, including retirees, students, and unemployed people, per day; the customers are used as test subjects for new hair colours.[43]

L'Oréal USA has its headquarters in New York City;[44] its New Jersey headquarters is in Berkeley Heights.[45]

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