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Currently, out of Lauder’s portfolio of 25 brands, the Estée Lauder brand is the most distributed in China in just over 130 cities. Yet there are over 600 cities where products are sold to online, meaning that as brick-and-mortar distribution expands, so, too, will the business. In terms of categories, Freda said makeup is coming back and that high-end and artisanal fragrances are “booming” around the world. E-commerce, now an established habit for older consumers as well as younger, will continue its acceleration, and men are starting to become more interested in self care, as well, leading to growth in the global grooming market.
At one time, both Leonard and Ronald Lauder, Wharton graduates, contributed to the business, along with their wives, Evelyn and Jo Carole. Leonard Lauder took over as president of Estée Lauder, Inc., in 1973. Ronald Lauder served as chairman of Lauder International, but later left to use his training in government work.
He discouraged Estée from using detergent soaps on her face and showed her how to make the cream that, years later, she would improve upon and market under her own name. She launched her cosmetics business during the Depression in New York and later in Miami Beach, Florida. Reuters, the news and media division genifique of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.
The Estée Lauder Companies’ annual Breast Cancer Awareness campaign involves all of the 19 brands that make up the Estée Lauder Companies. They collectively represent The Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s first and largest corporate supporter. For fiscal year 2016, the Estée Lauder Companies achieved net sales of $11.26 billion, a 4% increase compared with $10.78 billion in the prior year. Net earnings for the year were $1.11 billion, a 2% increase compared with $1.09 billion last year, and diluted net earnings per common share rose 5% to $2.96, compared with $2.82 reported in the prior year. As of 2018, Estée Lauder Companies ranked 258 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.
“The family always understood the importance of culture in terms of what it represented in the aspiration of people,” said Demsey. “If you want to be in it to win it, you need to understand where the eyeballs are and where the influence is. Lauder has become adept at identifying the prevailing sociocultural forces that impact innovation, whether from a product development or marketing point of view, a tenet that goes back to the days of Estée Lauder herself. The most recent editions are Dr. Jart +, in which Lauder invested in 2015 and acquired in 2019 and Deciem, in which the company took a minority stake in 2017 and assumed majority ownership of this year. Both have become important contributors to the portfolio, Travis said, adding over $500 million in sales to date. Travel retail, one of the most buoyant segments pre-pandemic, is not expected to regain its global mojo until the middle of next year.