ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products globally. Its portfolio encompasses over twenty prestige and luxury brands, including Estée Lauder, Clinique, M·A·C, La Mer, Jo Malone London, and TOM FORD. The company segments its offerings into skin care, makeup, fragrance, hair care, and other ancillary products. It sells products to wholesale partners such as department stores, duty-free retailers, specialty shops, salons, spas, and pharmacies, while also reaching consumers directly via freestanding brand boutiques and digital platforms.

Operating across approximately 150 countries and territories, the company maintains wholly-owned operations in more than 50 countries alongside distributor partnerships. It manages about 1,600 freestanding stores, including roughly 300 multi-brand outlet locations, and divides operations into four regional groups: The Americas; Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Emerging Markets; Asia/Pacific; and Mainland China. Manufacturing takes place predominantly in proprietary facilities located across Belgium, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, supplemented by third-party production networks. The company’s headquarters is not specified in the text.

Summary of the business section of Estee Lauder Companies's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

“As of June 30, 2026 and 2025, we had approximately 55,000 and 57,000 employees worldwide, respectively, including approximately 35,000 demonstrators at points of sale who are employed by us as of June 30, 2026 and 2025.”