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e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant Jun 29, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 13:31 Guy Raz Did you think that, that Maybelline and Revlon and L'Oreal were your competitors, or not really, because they were, they were charging four or five times the amount that you guys would be charging? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:30 Joey Shamah Like, how do I, I'm competing with CoverGirl and Revlon and L'Oreal.
  • ▶ 52:37 Joey Shamah And L'Oreal launched a brand called Hip to compete with Mac.
  • ▶ 57:27 Joey Shamah Maybe L'Oreal and Revlon were working on the next thing to take me out in 30 seconds.
  • ▶ 1:01:06 Guy Raz You've got a private equity partner, and it turns out that L'Oreal in 2013 approached you, you and your minority owner, to buy, buy you out. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:05 Joey Shamah So that was when we were selling to L'Oreal, we were selling a hundred percent of the company.

Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company May 4, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:22 Gregg Renfrew So the first, literally the first thing I did is I called a friend of mine who works for L'Oreal, and I said, I know you're in the hair care business, but can you tell me a little bit about how you all do things?
  • ▶ 48:53 Gregg Renfrew Yeah, like Unilever, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Shichetta, like any of those big brands.
  • ▶ 55:18 Guy Raz They found, uh, somebody who had senior roles at L'Oreal and Shiseido, a guy named Marc Array.

Madison Reed: Amy Errett Aug 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:01 Amy Errett And then, uh, found out, uh, the access you get when you're a VC is that I, uh, ended up getting, uh, what was supposed to be 30 minutes on the phone, uh, with an executive at L'Oreal. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:37 Guy Raz And one of her best contacts in the industry is this guy she knows who happens to be an executive at L'Oreal.
  • ▶ 1:02:55 Guy Raz Like there's L'Oreal's of, you know, the 800 ton gorilla on the block here, and they probably sell more in a week.

Advice Line with Jenn Hyman of Rent The Runway Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:26 Jenn Hyman You don't actually make as much of your money in the first time trial, and so the big three in beauty, LVMH, L'Oreal, and Estee Lauder, win on creating products that have enough love and efficacy that people repeat with them for years and…

Advice Line with Vicky Tsai of Tatcha Sep 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:33 Brittany Lowe So I ended up graduating from Babson College and I had a full time offer with L'Oreal. 2 times in the scene

Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise Jul 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:01 Ouidad Wise L'Oreal, a lot of products, and he was kind enough, he took us under his wing, and he started making small amount of products for each SKU till we grew, and we grew with him, and we stayed with him for almost 30 years.
  • ▶ 46:47 Ouidad Wise And then hair companies started coming after me and L'Oreal wanted me to work with them with their Garnier line and Bumble and Bumble were there.

Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson Jan 29, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:09 Tiffany Masterson And then I turned around and the lady on the other side of my booth was the president of L'Oreal. 5 times in the scene

The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020) Jul 3, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:32 Melissa Butler So, most companies, like the huge companies, the L'Oreal's of the world, they pretty much had a monopoly on the molds market.
  • ▶ 1:08:37 Guy Raz Purchased or partnered, you know, with a bigger company, a L'Oreal or Revlon or LVMH or, you know, one of these huge multinationals.

Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly Jan 23, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:47 Maureen Kelly Lauder or L'Oreal would have done it.
  • ▶ 33:54 Maureen Kelly I hadn't worked at L'Oreal or Lancôme.
  • ▶ 1:11:19 Maureen Kelly We definitely didn't get everything, um, but we got as much as we could, and then literally the next day, the doors were padlocked, because Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, they all manufactured there, and they made products for, like, you know,…
  • ▶ 1:15:34 Maureen Kelly You know, I loved, I loved, um, what I was doing, but, um, Kosei is kind of like the equivalent of, um, like a Lauder or a L'Oreal in, um, in Japan, and they were looking to acquire a company that they could study and learn from to, like,… 2 times in the scene

Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck Oct 24, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:04 Marla Beck Yeah, but what also happened in the industry about three or four years in is that all of these independent brands were purchased by L'Oreal, by Estee Lauder, 2 times in the scene

Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison (2019) Aug 9, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:39 Guy Raz She went on to sell her brand, Carol's Daughter, to L'Oreal.

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown (2018) Jul 19, 2021 · 1 mention

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018) May 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:56 Guy Raz And I believe, by the way, I think Urban Decay is now owned by L'Oreal.

The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler Nov 23, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:55 Melissa Butler So, most companies, like the huge companies, the L'Oreal's of the world, they pretty much had a monopoly on the molds market.
  • ▶ 1:16:39 Guy Raz Like other cosmetics brands like Benefit or, you know, other brands that were eventually became huge that you would have to be purchased or partnered, you know, with a bigger company, a L'Oreal or Revlon or LVMH or, you know, one of these…

Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:48 Mark Constantine Then, basically, the, the, you know, like, someone like Laurel 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:51 Mark Constantine And this is the lesson from Anita Roddick where she took just a small sum of money and she turned it into that massive business which L'Oreal bought for all that money.

Tatcha: Vicky Tsai Jul 13, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:11 Vicky Tsai Um, Shuyu Amora, which was owned by L'Oreal, had been pulled out of the market and shut down.

How I Built Resilience: Live with Sharon Chuter Jul 9, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:30 Guy Raz She went on to work for Revlon, L'Oreal, and Benefit, but in 2018, Sharon left the corporate world to start OMA and make beauty products for women like her.
  • ▶ 6:15 Guy Raz You went on to work for L'Oreal.
  • ▶ 11:29 Guy Raz And you got, like, responses from Glossier and L'Oreal and Sephora.

Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison May 27, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:35 Guy Raz She went on to sell her brand, Carol's Daughter, to L'Oreal.

Lisa Price Of Carol's Daughter At The HIBT Summit Dec 20, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:37 Guy Raz And then she sold her company to L'Oreal about four years ago.
  • ▶ 8:26 Lisa Price By the time we were acquired by L'Oreal, we had about 42 employees.
  • ▶ 15:41 Guy Raz You got a little bit of backlash from your hardcore fans when, when Carol's daughter was sold to L'Oreal because, um, particularly, you know, some of your, your fans said, hey, you know, self-made African-American businesswoman selling… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:29 Lisa Price I'm an employee of L'Oreal, but there's so much that I do that is still the same work, you know.

Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss Nov 26, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:28 Guy Raz I mean, weren't you, I mean, didn't anybody say to you, do you really think you can take on, you know, L'Oreal and Estee Lauder and, and Revlon, I don't even know the names of the biggest, I mean, these are huge, enormous multinationals,…
  • ▶ 43:17 Guy Raz Um, I have to imagine that the big cosmetics companies, the L'Oreal's, the Estee Lauder's, are really paying attention to what you're doing and really want to buy, buy this company. 2 times in the scene

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner Oct 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:50 Guy Raz And I believe, by the way, I think Urban Decay is now owned by L'Oreal.

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown Sep 17, 2018 · 1 mention

Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price (2018) Aug 6, 2018 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:12 Guy Raz A division of L'Oreal, and L'Oreal, if you don't already know, happens to be the world's largest cosmetics company. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:23 Guy Raz I know that in 2014, you sold the company to L'Oreal. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:22 Guy Raz When, when L'Oreal bought the company, some of your customers were, were, were disappointed because, you know, right, you, I mean, you know, they felt that, well, this was a, a, a company owned by an African-American woman, and now it's… 2 times in the scene

Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price Jun 12, 2017 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:26 Guy Raz A division of L'Oreal, and L'Oreal, if you don't already know, happens to be the world's largest cosmetics company. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:44 Guy Raz I know that in 2014, you sold the company to L'Oreal. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:43 Guy Raz When, when L'Oreal bought the company, some of your customers were, were, were disappointed because, you know, right, you, I mean, you know, they felt that, well, this was a, a, a company owned by an African-American woman, and now it's…
  • ▶ 36:00 Guy Raz By the way, even though L'Oreal bought the company, Lisa is still the public face of Carol's Daughter.
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