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Antonio Puig
Antonio Puig is a Spanish beauty and fashion company founded in Barcelona in 1914 by Antonio Puig Castelló, beginning as an importer before making Spain's first home-produced lipstick in 1922. Run by the founding family across three…



Cussons is a British personal-care name owned by PZ Cussons plc, a Manchester-based group quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Its roots run from a trading post founded in Sierra Leone in 1884 to the Cussons soap business started in…



Givenchy is a Paris luxury house that the designer Hubert de Givenchy started in 1952, first as a haute couture label and later as a broader fashion, fragrance and cosmetics business. Its beauty story begins with the 1957 perfume…

L'Oréal
L'Oréal is a French beauty group founded in 1909 by Eugène Schueller, who started out selling hair dye. Today it is the largest cosmetics company in the world, based in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, and organised into consumer, luxury,…






