L'Oréal Groupe's impact in the UK
The Impact of Beauty in Every Postcode
From our homes to anchoring our high streets, the impact of beauty is felt in every postcode across the UK.
In 2025, the beauty and personal care sector contributed £28.3 billion to the UK economy, generated £8.8 billion in tax revenue and supported 595,000 jobs nationwide (British Beauty Council, Value of Beauty 2026).
The Impact of Beauty: Revealing its Social, Cultural and Economic Value, commissioned by the British Beauty Council, supported by L'Oréal Groupe, compiled by Oxford Economics, shows that for consumers in the UK, beauty and personal care is a daily necessity with far-reaching economic and societal contribution to the nation's well-being. The value of beauty lies not only in what it produces but in what it enables, powering participation in everyday life, directly contributing to well-being, confidence, social connection and high street vitality.
Discover the full report here.
Art concept: Chris Agius-Burke. CGI artist: Justin Metz
Our people across the UK
We employ 3,000 people across the country. Our Head office is based in White City, London and we have three distribution centres in Bury, Nottingham, and Trafford.
We are committed to investing in young talent by offering over 250 professional opportunities, including degree-level apprenticeships, industrial placements, summer placements and a graduate management trainee programme. Through our L'Oréal For Youth programme, we upskill youth to support employability, through a series of CV skills support masterclasses, mentoring and partnering with local youth centres.
In 2025, we have created over 25,000 professional opportunities for people under 30 globally.
Our commitment to the future of the beauty industry
We partner with 7,500 professional hair salons across the country, who are at the heart of our high streets. We invest in the future of beauty, training 20,000 hairdressers each year, many in our bespoke Academy facilities. We support the growth of the salon businesses through our digital platform L’Oréal Business Academy, providing business education training as well as support on financial and digital literacy, marketing and sustainability.
Head Up is a global programme created by L'Oréal Professionnel Paris in partnership with NAMI, to raise awareness of the mental health challenges facing hairstylists and provide them with free mental health resources.
This year, we celebrated 70 years of the L'Oréal Colour Trophy, the longest running live hairdressing competition in the world. The Awards celebrate hair artistry and ensure that across the UK, salons remain places where creativity, confidence and community come together, giving people the freedom to express who they are.
We bring pioneering beauty tech to the market, driving personalisation and inclusivity, launching products and services designed to address individual consumer needs and preferences. Learn more here.
Our commitment to
our communities
We recognise the power of our brands to address societal challenges. By supporting seven NGOs, we are committed to having a tangible impact. For example, in partnership with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and Women's Aid, L'Oréal Paris' Stand Up against street harassment and YSL Beauty's Abuse is Not Love campaigns focus on supporting efforts to tackle violence against women and girls.
Beyond our brand causes, since 2007, the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Programme has offered over £1 million worth of grants to promote, enhance and encourage the contribution of women pursuing their research careers. Learn more about For Women in Science
We partner with high street stores to provide dermatological training for 800 pharmacists, increasing access to skin health advice.
Since 2017, L'Oréal Paris has supported over 27,000 young people through workshops in partnership with The King's Trust, reflecting our long-term commitment to helping young people build confidence, develop their potential and access opportunities for the future.
Every year, we celebrate Citizen Day. A full day of employee volunteering, where we support NGOs in our local communities.
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Our commitment to sustainability
We operate one of the UK's largest make-up recycling project and are expanding our refillable product lines across a range of categories – skincare, haircare, fragrance. All three of our distribution centres are run on renewable energy.
Our flagship sustainable innovation programme, L'AcceleratOR, is run in partnership with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Backed by 100 million over five years, it aims to accelerate scalable solutions to urgent challenges in climate, nature and circularity by supporting 13 start-ups and SMEs every year. To date, it has supported four UK-based start-ups.
Learn more about L'Oréal's sustainability commitments here.
Our socio-economic impact
In 2023, Asteres analysed our socio-economic impact in the UK. The study showed a strong economic contribution with a total footprint representing £5.3 billion in sales and providing £894 million in public revenue through taxes and social revenues through L’Oréal’s value chain. A further 33,467 jobs are indirectly supported through operations. Learn more about the study here.
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One L’Oréal job in the United Kingdom supports 11.4 jobs in the wider economy
33,467
total jobs supported across L’Oréal’s value chain in the United Kingdom
€5.3Bn
in total sales generated across L’Oréal’s value chain in the United Kingdom