The Estée Lauder Companies: Estée Lauder is a public prestige beauty company founded in 1946. It reported $14.326 billion in fiscal 2025 net sales, a $1.133 billion net loss, and about 57,000 employees. CEO Stéphane de La Faverie is leading the Beauty Reimagined and Profit Recovery and Growth Plan reset.
What Does Estée Lauder Do?
Estée Lauder develops and sells prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products through brands including Estée Lauder, Clinique, La Mer, M·A·C, Jo Malone London, Le Labo, Tom Ford Beauty, and Aveda. Its products are sold through department stores, specialty retailers, travel retail, brand stores, e-commerce, and third-party online platforms.
What Is Estée Lauder's Current Strategy?
The company is focused on stabilizing sales, improving innovation, restoring travel-retail and skin-care performance, cutting costs, and reinvesting in consumer-facing growth. The 2025 leadership transition and restructuring expansion make this a turnaround period rather than a normal prestige-beauty growth year.
