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Strength in Asia Pacific Continues to Drive L’Oréal’s 1Q Sales Performance; Shares Rich

Wide-moat L’Oréal began 2019 on solid footing, posting 7.7% like-for-like sales growth in its first-quarter sales update. The highlight of its business remains the Asia-Pacific region (32% of sales), which experienced 23% like-for-like sales growth. This remains well above the roughly 1% growth seen in Western Europe (29% of sales) and North America (25%), where mass-market performance remains lukewarm. We expect the Asia-Pacific region will continue to support industry momentum over the coming ...
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L'Oreal SA

L'Oreal acts as a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. plays a strategic coordination role and scientific, industrial and marketing coordination role on a global basis. Co. develops, manufactures and commercializes products for Skin care, Hair care, Make-up, Perfumes, Toiletries and deodorants, and Oral cosmetics. Co. has three branches: Cosmetics, Body shop and Dermatology. Co.'s principal activities comprise four divisions: Professional Products, Consumer Products, L'Oreal Luxe and Active Cosmetics. The Body Shop branch offers various cosmetics and toiletry products. The Dermatology branch offers topical dermatology prescription, and corrective and aesthetic dermatology.

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