Reporting quarterly earnings on Tuesday are both Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) and Saks (NYSE: SKS).
Estee Lauder Companies (EL) reports its second quarter earnings on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.
Estee Lauder has opened a gleaming new multi-million-dollar research and development center in Shanghai.
Estee Lauder makes higher margin from its skin care segment (16%) than its overall business (11%).
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Both Polo Ralph Lauren and Estee Lauder have earned ratings of 8 out of 10.
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It carries overseas brands that including Estee Lauder, Coach and Chanel, and boasts 1.17 million VIP customers.
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Estee Lauder, based in New York City, has seen its stock gain 64% in the last year.
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The son of Estee Lauder was the former Chairman of MOMA and co-founder of the Neue Galerie.
This means that the skin care business is more profitable for Estee Lauder than its other businesses.
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Controlled by the Lauder family, EL has about 20 brands, including, of course, Estee Lauder and Clinique.
The first 30 pages are all ads, from the likes of Estee Lauder, Ralph Lauren and Dior.
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She has also entered into an agreement with Estee Lauder to do an AERIN beauty collection for them.
And, as she explains in her MySpace profile, she likes Burger King, Estee Lauder cosmetics and Ford Mustangs.
Estee Lauder for now has a small share of close to 7%, but the opportunity to grow is limitless.
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Shares of Estee Lauder Companies are also in retreat from recent 52-week highs.
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Here Avon, Colgate and Estee Lauder top their peers with expected growth of mid to high single digit revenue growth.
So how are companies like Estee Lauder, which sells this face cream, getting Chinese consumers to part with their money?
In fact, Estee Lauder was an early supporter of Sephora, but the major department stores objected and Estee Lauder pulled out.
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Estee Lauder is currently rolling out several of its brands, including Bobby Brown and Clinique, to a number of Sephora stores.
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Lauder is the chairman emeritus of the Estee Lauder Co. and son of the late cosmetics queen by the same name.
For a time, department stores insisted that their large beauty suppliers, such as Estee Lauder, do not sell their brands in Sephora.
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Despite the potential upside, we note that the scenarios illustrated above would still leave us below current market value for Estee Lauder.
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Analyst sentiment about Estee Lauder has waned during the last three months.
Competitors like Estee Lauder have followed Avon into broad international segments, and have outpaced Avon in many cases in successfully grabbing market share.
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The majority of analysts (62.5%) rate Estee Lauder as a buy.
If China decided to relax its customs duties, this could result in Estee Lauder gaining close to 8% market share of global skin care by 2012.
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Dr. Bronner's accuses these companies, which include Kiss My Face, Stella McCartney America, Estee Lauder and Hain Celestial Group , of using petroleum-based ingredients in their potions.
They took over the successful perfume business begun by their extraordinarily perspicacious mother Estee Lauder and built it into a global empire that made Revlon look like a scruffy second rate operation.
Of the major publicly traded cosmetics companies, only Estee Lauder Companies has been able to rebound strongly since the downturn began in October 2007 (up 48 percent over the past three years).
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