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Estée Lauder Companies

Fabrizio Freda

The Estée Exodus

Notes on the accelerated retirement of C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, the two senior executives following him out the door, and whether Jane Lauder will step into her uncle Leonard’s old job running the family cosmetics empire.
Rachel Strugatz • August 21, 2024
Lauren Sherman • July 22, 2024
Tom Ford After Tom Ford…
tom ford
The quick departure of Peter Hawkings, Ford’s handpicked successor, begets the question: Without the founder’s obsessive control and inimitable taste, what’s left?
Rachel Strugatz • July 17, 2024
I Know It Was You, Freda
Tracey Travis
The midsummer departure of Estée Lauder’s Tracey Thomas Travis raises some renewed questions about the future of the family-controlled, $23 billion cosmetics company.
estee lauder Fabrizio Freda, William Lauder, Leonard Lauder
Rachel Strugatz • June 12, 2024
King Lauder
News and notes on the very drawn out succession planning at Estée and the quasi-Shakespearean dynamic underpinning it all.
Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz • June 5, 2024
Estée’s $3.6 Billion Revitalizing Cream
News and notes on the most pressing murmurs in the beauty industry: Estée Lauder’s consummation of the Deciem deal, Freda’s decision to go mass, and an unlikely turnaround play at Olaplex.
Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz • May 8, 2024
Lauder & Order
A post-post-pandemic comeback for The Estée Lauder Companies hasn’t erased doubts about C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, his turnaround plan, and another round of layoffs. Could M&A be the answer to get Lauder back in business?
Estée Lauder
Rachel Strugatz • February 7, 2024
Estée in Distress
After a series of disappointing quarters, how can America’s oldest and most prestigious beauty conglomerate get younger—and fast?
Will Kering C.E.O. François-Henri Pinault’s controlling position in CAA mean that the talent agency will have to overcompensate with the LVMHs and Chanels and Brunello Cucinellis of the world?
Lauren Sherman • January 2, 2024
Ozempic Mysteries, Estée Succession & The CAA-ification of Fashion
Seven predictions, questions, and concerns for the fashion business in 2024.
Estée Lauder C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda with Jane and Ronald Lauder.
Lauren Sherman • November 2, 2023
American Beauty
On the past, present, and uncertain future of Estée Lauder.
Over the summer, the former Estée Lauder Companies executive John Demsey was appointed senior advisor to L Catterton, the LVMH-linked private equity firm.
Lauren Sherman • October 16, 2023
John Demsey Comes in From the Cold
A candid chat with the formerly canceled beauty executive on the state of the trade, the existential threat of the fashion conglomerates, and the future of D.T.C.