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Founded by Eugène Schueller in 1909.1
LRLCF on OTC Markets Group
L'Oréal
Logo: L'Oréal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
French multinational cosmetics and beauty company
L'Oréal S.A. (French: [lɔʁe.al]) is a French multinational personal care corporation registered in Paris and headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine. As of 2024, it is the world's largest cosmetics company.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Last updated Oct 16, 2026.
Overview
1909Founded1
- TickerLRLCF on OTC Markets Group1
- Industrycosmetics industry, fast-moving consumer goods, personal care product1
- HeadquartersParis1
- Websitewww.loreal.com
- Legal formpublic limited company with a board of directors (n.o.s.)1
- Listed onEuronext Paris (OR), OTC Markets Group (LRLCF)1
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L'Oréal S.A. (French: [lɔʁe.al]) is a French multinational personal care corporation registered in Paris and headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine. As of 2024, it is the world's largest cosmetics company. As of the early 2020s, L'Oréal owned 36 brands and 497 patents.2
Leadership
Who has led L'Oréal, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.
Chief executive
197019801990200020102020
- FounderEugène Schueller1
- Chief executive officerNicolas Hieronimus May 1, 2021 to now1
Board members and other officers (12)
- Board memberAlexandre Ricard1
- Board memberBéatrice Guillaume-Grabisch1
- Board memberBelén Garijo1
- Board memberFabienne Dulac1
- Board memberFrançoise Bettencourt Meyers1
- Board memberIlham Kadri1
- Board memberJean-Victor Meyers1
- Board memberNicolas Meyers1
- Board memberPatrice Caine1
- Board memberPaul Bulcke1
- Board memberSophie Bellon1
- Board memberVirginie Morgon1
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
- TETHYS 34.7%
- Nestlé 26.4% since 2004
Subsidiaries
- AcneFree
- Aesop
- Ambi
- Atelier Cologne
- Azzaro
- Biolage
- Biotherm
- Cacharel
- Cadum
- Carita
- Carol's Daughter
- CeraVe
- Clarisonic
- Dark & Lovely
- Dermablend
- Dessange
- Diesel
- Dop
- Fitne
- Garnier
- Giorgio Armani
- Helena Rubinstein
- Heliotrop
- IT Cosmetics
All 75 subsidiaries
- Jacquemus Beauty
- Kiehl's
- Kérastase
- L'Oreal Baltic
- L'Oréal Paris
- L'Oréal Professionnel
- L'Oréal USA
- La Provençale
- La Roche-Posay
- LaSCAD
- Lancôme
- Le Club des Créateurs de Beauté
- Logodent
- Logona
- L’Oréal Foundation
- Magic
- Maison Margiela
- Matrix
- Maybelline
- Medik8
- Mennen
- Miu Miu
- Mixa
- Mizani
- Mugler
- NYX Professional Makeup
- Narta
- Nickel
- Prada Beauty
- Pureology
- Ralph Lauren
- Redken
- Roger & Gallet
- Sanoflore
- Sante
- Shu Uemura
- SkinCeuticals
- Skinbetter Science
- Stylenanda
- Synthélabo
- Takami
- Thayers
- Urban Decay
- Ushuaïa
- Valentino Beauty
- Vichy
- Viktor&Rolf
- Vogue
- YSL Beauty
- Youth To The People
- Yuesai
Also owns
- Sanofi 9.4%
- Gemey Paris
- Guy Laroche
- Logocos
- Paloma Picasso
Former owners and parents
- Eugène Schueller 100% Jul 30, 1909 to 1957
- Liliane Bettencourt 100% 1957 to 1974
- GESPARAL 53.8% 1974 to 2004
From Wikidata.1
Acquisitions
Revenue over time
As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.
Revenue
Net income
Timeline
Links
- Websitewww.loreal.com1
- X (Twitter)x.com/Loreal1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/loreal1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/loreal1
- YouTubewww.youtube.com/channel/UCgmvz6qxtga4W6n1mfmM0Zw1
- LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/company/loréal1
- WikipediaL'Oréal
- WikidataQ156077
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataL'Oréal on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaL'Oréal on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsL'Oréal logo by L'Oréal, Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsL'Oréal photo by Erwmat, CC BY-SA 3.0