Today, we meet jean paul agon, chairman and ceo of loreal. Thank you so much. Jean paul pleasure. Francine innovation, your share price has grown, was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started has ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 20082009, but globally as this very good. S has been we have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, very, china and exciting. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams think this , i think this industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is it the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul it is the relationships between brands and consumers. In fact, digital has completely transformed the relationship between the two. Before t
Im tracy alloway. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Lets check or markets ended up last week. Numbers on december, released on friday. 148,000 for the month. Last 90,000 expected for economists. Markets really shrugging off that number. Industrial average reaching new alltime highs. 7500, recording its best start of the year since 1999. Analysts are falling over mselves to wreck it up will ratchet up their expectations. A little change on friday, slightly weaker. 10 year yield a little changed to end up at 2. 48 . A big story for the region. We have brent just a touch lower on friday. Rally into 2018. The whole commodities complex really powering ahead to start the new year on the Global Growth story. You can see some of the optimism feeding into regional markets, dow up almost 3 5 of 1 in their come and kuwait up a little over 50 points on thursday. Lets check in on first word headlines with stephanie humphrey. The u. S. Regulators and prosecutors are seeking information from the
Today on leaders with lacqua, we meet jean paul agon, chairman and ceo of loreal. Thank you so much. Jean paul pleasure. Francine what happened to loreal in the last 10 years . Innovation . Your share price has grown. Was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started has ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 20082009, but globally the business has been very good. We have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, china, so very exciting, fantastic. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams, i think this, i industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years than in the previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is this the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul no, in fact it is the relationships between brands
Of the complainant cuddling the defendant in bed. Hello. It is thursday already. Welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. Were also talking about Breast Cancer screening this morning after researchers in london suggested all women should be tested for the so called Angelina Jolie gene mutations to the bcra gene. For all women over the age of 30. If you carry of the faulty gene, or youve been tested for it, wed love to hear from you this morning. Irrespective of your age. What kind of information did you get from the screening . How has it impacted on your behaviour . What have you done about it . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today, britain is to increase its contribution towards border controls in france by 44 and a half Million Pounds, and commit to taking more migrants. The money will be spent on fencing, security camer
Jean paul pleasure. Francine what happened to loreal in the last 10 years . Innovation . Your share price has grown. Was it exciting times . Jean paul very exciting. I started as ceo 10 years ago. It has been 10 years very exciting. Of course we had crisis in 2008 and 2009, but globally the business has been very good. We have been growing, acquiring brands, launching new products, gaining market share everywhere, in europe, usa, china, so very exciting, fantastic. Francine what has been the most fun . Jean paul the past 34 years. Thanks to digital revolution, everything has been transformed. As i tell my teams, i think this, i industry, our business, our company has more chance in the past three years than in the previous 30 years, so it is an amazing time, extremely exciting. Francine is this the way you sell or the way people look at makeup . Jean paul no, in fact it is the relationships between brands and consumers. In fact, digital has completely transformed the relationship betwe