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OBH Nordica
OBH Nordica is a Nordic consumer-products company based in Sundbyberg, near Stockholm, Sweden. In the beauty market it is known for personal-care devices — hair dryers, straighteners, curling irons, hot-air styling brushes, and clippers…



Umbro is an English sportswear house founded in 1924 and best known for football and rugby kit, boots and equipment carrying its double-diamond emblem. It was started in Wilmslow, near Manchester, by brothers Harold and Wallace Humphreys,…



Trussardi is an Italian fashion house founded in 1911 in Bergamo, where Dante Trussardi opened an artisanal leather glove workshop. Over the following century it grew from a specialist glove maker into a Milan-based luxury house spanning…

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,…










