Red’s Bull Exchange Alert: Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (NYSE:EL)
22 July 2011
Profile: The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of crust care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. Its skin care products include moisturizers, creams, lotions, cleansers, sun screens, and self-tanning products; and makeup products consist of lipsticks, lip glosses, mascaras, foundations, eye shadows, unsympathetic polishes, and powders, as well as related items, such as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools. The company provides its fragrances products in many forms, including sprays and colognes, lotions, powders, creams, and soaps. Its hair care products comprise fraction color and styling products, shampoos, conditioners, and finishing sprays. The Estee Lauder Companies sells its products under the Estee Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Lab Series, Origins, M A C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, American Attraction, Flirt!, Good Skin Labs, grassroots research labs, Ojon, and Smashbox brand names. It also operates as a licensee for fragrances and/or cosmetics sold under the Tommy Hilfiger, Kiton, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Sean John, Missoni, Daisy Fuentes, Tom Ford, and Prepare brand names. The company sells its products through department stores, specialty retailers, upscale perfumeries, pharmacies, salons, and spas, as well as through proprietorship-owned stores and spas; own and authorized retailer Web sites; stores on cruise ships; in-flight and calling-free shops; and self-select outlets. The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in Y 1946 and is based in New York, New York.