PARIS – L’Oréal’s fourth-quarter 2025 sales grew 6 percent on an organic basis to 11.25 billion euros, accelerating for the third straight quarter.
Full-year sales at the maker of Lancôme, Garnier and CeraVe products advanced 1.3 percent on a reported basis and 4 percent in like-for-like terms, spurred by its Professional Products division.
Company sales in the 12 months ended Dec. 31 reached 44.05 billion euros, while operating profit increased 2.4 percent to 8.89 billion euros, representing a 20 basis-point improvement.
Nicolas Hieronimus, L’Oréal chief executive officer, in a statement described 2025 as “a defining year for L’Oréal.
“As we had promised, organic top-line growth accelerated quarter after quarter, boosted by the step-up in our launch plan and supported by a gradually improving beauty market,” he said. “At plus 4 percent, L’Oréal grew once again ahead of the market; a key highlight was the strong second-half recovery in our two largest countries, the U.S. and China, while we continued our emerging conquest. We delivered another year of record gross and operating margins as our focus on efficiency gains allowed us to offset adverse currency and tariff trends.”
Hieronimus said L’Oréal profoundly transformed last year. This was through advancements in artificial intelligence, strengthening research-and-innovation capabilities and implementing IT transformation. The group also undertook its most transformational M&A move to date, for Kering Beauté.
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Hieronimus said the acquisition “will further bolster our leadership in luxury beauty, adding highly desirable brands with significant growth potential.”
According to the executive, the group increasing its stake in Galderma to 20 percent from 10 percent “will allow L’Oréal to take part in the fast-growing market of aesthetics, a key adjacency to our beauty business.”
Hieronimus said L’Oréal is queued up for further acceleration.
“In 2026, despite the macro uncertainties, we are optimistic about the outlook for the global beauty market and confident in our ability to keep outperforming it thanks to L’Oréal’s multidivisional strategy and to achieve another year of growth in sales and profit,” he said.
