L’Oréal Groupe Named to Fortune’s 2025 Change the World List for Innovative Sustainable Solutions

L’Oréal Groupe earned a spot on Fortune's annual Change the World list, recognizing the company's ongoing efforts in refill and sustainable packaging transformation. This accolade underscores L’Oréal Groupe’s commitment to creating more circular solutions and setting a new industry standard.

L’Oréal Groupe’s focus on building resilience for both the planet and people is intrinsically woven into its ambitious global sustainability program, L’Oréal for the Future. A key component of this program is the strategic evolution from traditional single-use models to a comprehensive system centered on refillable, reusable, and more sustainably designed beauty products. As the only major beauty player to scale refillable packaging across its entire category offerings, the impact of L’Oréal Groupe’s initiatives is vast, spanning luxury, consumer, professional, and dermatological beauty brands.

The Fortune Change the World list highlights companies that leverage their core business strategy to create positive social impact. L'Oréal Groupe stands out for its meaningful solutions to lessen the environmental impact of packaging consumption:

• The Group has significantly adapted its manufacturing sites around the world to enable a 17-fold increase in the number of refillable options available over the past five years, which now includes some of the world’s best-selling fragrances.
• Significant Reduction in Material Consumption: L'Oréal Groupe products and best sellers reach an incredible number of consumers across the world, emphasizing the quantifiable environmental benefits of its packaging design and refill strategy. L’Oreal Groupe also aims to keep existing materials in continuous use through reuse and recycling, leading to significant reduction in material consumption across several large brands and product categories.
• Empowering Consumers with Refillable Offerings: Making “refills the new normal” by making refillable options accessible and desirable, L’Oréal Groupe empowers millions of consumers to make more sustainable choices, thereby helping to reduce their personal plastic consumption and promote a more circular business model, ultimately sustaining a behavior shift that drives systemic change.

Honorees are selected by Fortune writers and editors who evaluate companies by their measurable social impact, degree of innovation, corporate integration, and the benefit the socially impactful work brings to the company.

See the complete list here. 

About L’Oréal 

For 115 years, L’Oréal, the world’s leading beauty player, has devoted itself to one thing only: fulfilling the beauty aspirations of consumers around the world. Our purpose, to create the beauty that moves the world, defines our approach to beauty as essential, inclusive, ethical, generous and committed to social and environmental sustainability. With our broad portfolio of 37 international brands and ambitious sustainability commitments in our L’Oréal for the Future program, we offer each and every person around the world the best in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility, while celebrating beauty in its infinite plurality.

With more than 90,000 committed employees, a balanced geographical footprint and sales across all distribution networks (ecommerce, mass market, department stores, pharmacies, perfumeries, hair salons, branded and travel retail), in 2024 the Group generated sales amounting to 43.48 billion euros. With 21 research centers across 13 countries around the world and a dedicated Research and Innovation team of over 4,000 scientists and 8,000 Digital talents, L’Oréal is focused on inventing the future of beauty and becoming a Beauty Tech powerhouse.

In 2025, L’Oréal Groupe has been named the most innovative company in Europe by Fortune magazine, out of 300 companies, in a ranking spanning 21 countries and 16 industries in Europe. More information can be found here.