CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Beauty & Cosmetics
World’s Most Productive Companies
Beauty & Cosmetics
Beauty and Cosmetics spans color cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance. Productivity is built on brand strength, premiumization, and increasingly agile, digitally enabled supply chains.
The group had a strong 2025, finishing about 8% above its 2019 baseline. Coty and L'Oréal led as World’s Most Productive Companies. Gains were broad across the group.
Beauty & Cosmetics World's Most Productive Companies
Productivity Snapshot
- Beauty & Cosmetics ranks third of eight Consumer Products peer groups in 2025, at an Industrial Productivity Index of 1.07, about 8% above its 2019 baseline.
- 6 of 7 companies grew productivity in 2025.
- They are the group’s World’s Most Productive Companies: Coty (1.22), L'Oréal (1.13).
- Most of the group improved in 2025, leaving it comfortably above its 2019 baseline.
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