Lauder Projects Skin-Care Acceleration While Continuing To Ride Makeup Wave
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Makeup drove the Estee Lauder Companies Inc.’s fiscal 2016 results and is expected to continue booming, but the firm also believes that skin-care growth will pick up as Millennials get more involved in the category.
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