L'Oréal Groupe's impact in the UK

L’Oréal is the number one beauty player in the UK. For more than 90 years, L’Oréal has been investing in and driving growth across the UK, from helping small businesses, high streets and communities to thrive, to championing the UK in a competitive global marketplace. Beyond its economic impact, beauty benefits health and wellbeing, confidence, self-expression and belonging.

Our people across the UK

We employ 2,700 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 certified living wage degree-level apprenticeships, industrial placements, summer placements and a graduate management trainee programme.

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 sustainability.

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 nine 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 Boots to provide dermatological training for pharmacists in 200+ stores, increasing access to skin health advice.

Through our L'Oréal For Youth programme, we upskill youth to support employability, through a series of masterclasses, mentoring and partnering with local youth centres.

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 the UK's largest make-up recycling project and are expanding our refillable product lines across a range of categories – skincare, haircare, fragrance – empowering consumers to make choices that are better for the environment and more cost-effective. All three of our distribution centres are run on renewable energy.

We are proud to partner with Net Zero Now on a Net Zero Salons programme, to help salons reduce their carbon footprint and achieve a net-zero status.

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 methodology here.

1=11.4

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

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