Interview with Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman of L’Oréal

In 2009, the particularly difficult economic context has enabled L’Oréal to gauge its strengths, and to reassert its ownership of the founding values of the company, such as a quest for excellence and an appetite for challenges, combined with pragmatism and imagination. L’Oréal is an imaginative company full of resources, which is flexible in adapting to change. These are unquestionable advantages when weathering any storm. The huge efforts everyone has made to successfully overcome a year of great uncertainty have been combined with transformations that ensure we are fully prepared for the future. I would like to thank all L’Oréal’s teams for their exemplary commitment and solidarity.

Today, L’Oréal is ready to push back all boundaries: to win a further one billion new consumers throughout the world, and open up new horizons through science. We are well prepared: our governance is strong and vigilant, our teams are solid and resolute, and our research is anticipating tomorrow’s beauty in all its diversity.

More than ever before, L’Oréal is asserting its life force.