L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED is a private company limited by shares registered in England and Wales under company number 00271555. It was incorporated on 24 December 1932 and its status on the Companies House register was Active when the register was checked on 29 September 2026. The registered name carries brackets and full stops around “U.K.”; the company’s own audited accounts style it L’Oréal (U.K.) Limited. Companies House publishes one previous name for it: the company was registered as GOLDEN LIMITED from incorporation until 1 January 1986.
The registered office is Gateway Central, 187 Wood Lane, London W12 7SA, moved there from 255 Hammersmith Road, London W6 8AZ on 1 August 2023. Its registered activities are SIC 46450, wholesale of perfume and cosmetics, and SIC 47750, retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores.
The strategic report in the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 describes the principal activities of L’Oréal (U.K.) Limited as the sale and distribution, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, of beauty products, hair care, make-up, fragrances and skincare. The company reports through four divisions — Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, Luxe and Professional Products — and sells through retailers, department store chains, beauty and hair salons, wholesalers, online retailers, pharmacies and dermatology practitioners. The turnover note states that turnover originates from the United Kingdom and that its geographical destination is the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The figures that follow are this company’s own filed figures, not consolidated group figures. For the year ended 31 December 2025 the company reported turnover of £1,621.8 million (2024: £1,558.8 million), operating profit of £256.1 million (2024: £241.4 million) and profit for the financial year of £194.2 million (2024: £185.2 million). Total assets were £898.8 million. The average monthly number of persons employed, including directors, was 3,477 (2024: 3,451), of whom 2,756 were in selling and distribution and 721 in administration. The accounts were approved on 2 April 2026 and filed at Companies House on 25 April 2026.
On 1 October 2025 L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED purchased the Aesop UK retail business for a consideration of £34,234,000, described in the strategic report as a move into the skincare market within its Luxe division. The company is privately held and has no securities admitted to trading on any stock exchange.
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Shareholders
2
Shareholders of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED
Two shareholders are disclosed for L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED, and the share capital they hold reconciles exactly with the company’s filed statement of capital. The confirmation statement made on 28 June 2024 and note 17 of the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 both record a single class of 406,132,842 issued and fully paid ordinary shares with a nominal value of £0.25 each, an aggregate nominal value of £101,533,210.50 and nothing unpaid. The stored register extract, verified 28 September 2026, allocates 406,132,841 of those shares to L’Oréal S.A. of France and the one remaining share to SPARLYS, another French company in the same group. The Companies House register does not publish a member list for this company, so the split between the two holders is not separately confirmed by a filed document; the direction of it is corroborated by the persons-with-significant-control register, which records L’Oréal S.A. as holding 75% or more of both the shares and the voting rights.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No natural person is registered as a person with significant control of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED. The register carries one active entry, a corporate one: L’Oréal S.A., a French société anonyme registered at the Trade and Company Registry of Paris under number 632012100, notified on 6 April 2016, with its nature of control recorded as ownership of 75% or more of the shares, ownership of 75% or more of the voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors. A registrable legal entity is the first such entity in the chain, so this entry also records that the holding is direct rather than through an intermediate holding company. Because L’Oréal S.A. is itself a company admitted to trading on Euronext Paris and subject to its own disclosure regime, the UK chain stops at it and no individual is registrable behind it.
At the level of the parent, and not of this company, L’Oréal S.A.’s 2025 Universal Registration Document reports that at 31 December 2025 its 533,783,028 shares were held 34.79% by Françoise Bettencourt Meyers and her family (185,715,079 shares, principally through Téthys SAS and Financière L’Arcouest SAS), 20.16% by Nestlé through Nestlé Equity Holdings Limited (107,621,021 shares), 2.06% by employees and former employees and 42.99% by the public, with no treasury shares. The same document records that the Bettencourt Meyers family and Nestlé have not acted in concert since 21 March 2018. These are holdings in the listed French parent; no single natural person is disclosed there as holding a controlling stake, and none is registered as a beneficial owner of the UK company.
Data availability
Ownership disclosure for this jurisdiction is full at the level of capital and control — the United Kingdom publishes the statement of capital and the PSC register free of charge — but partial as to the member list, which is not published for this company. Two defects should be noted. First, the baseline record stores the nominal value of the ordinary shares as £0.025 and the resulting total nominal value as £10,153,321.03; the filed statement of capital and note 17 of the audited accounts both give £0.25 and £101,533,210.50, so the stored figure understates the nominal capital tenfold. The share count itself, 406,132,842, is correct. Second, the PSC register shows a withdrawn statement, filed on 19 July 2017, that the company believed there was no registrable person or registrable relevant legal entity in relation to it; it was withdrawn on 2 December 2020 and it coexisted with the active L’Oréal S.A. entry notified in 2016, so it should not be read as evidence that control was ever unregistered.
Sources
- Companies House, persons with significant control, L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED (00271555) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/persons-with-significant-control. Entry notified 6 April 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- Companies House, confirmation statement CS01 made on 28 June 2024, filed 12 July 2024, statement of capital — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- L’Oréal (U.K.) Limited, Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025, note 17 “Called up share capital and share premium account”, filed 25 April 2026 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- L’Oréal, 2025 Universal Registration Document, section 7.3 “Ownership structure”, published March 2026 — https://www.loreal-finance.com/system/files/2026-03/LOREAL_DEU_2025_EN.pdf. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
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| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'OREAL SA | 100% | Companies House | |
| SPARLYS | 0% | Companies House |
Officers
45
Directors and officers of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED
The Companies House officer register for L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED held 48 appointments when it was read on 29 September 2026, of which 42 had ended and six were current: five directors and one company secretary. The current directors are Thierry Herve Henri Cheval (appointed 16 November 2020, and named as Chair in the directors’ report for the year ended 31 December 2025), Madeleine Mary Haden (14 May 2021), Olivier Gerard Hubin (17 September 2021), Erin Elizabeth Schaffner (4 October 2022) and Alexis Philippon (1 September 2025). Emma Howes has been company secretary since 3 November 2025. The directors’ report in the 2025 financial statements lists the same five directors in office during the year and up to the date of the report, together with Emily Mary Chiverton, who resigned on 1 September 2025.
Companies House records nationality for the five directors: Mr Cheval French, Ms Haden British and New Zealander, Mr Hubin Belgian, Ms Schaffner American and Mr Philippon French. Country of residence is recorded separately and does not follow from nationality — England for Mr Cheval, the United Kingdom for Ms Haden, Ms Schaffner and Mr Philippon, and France for Mr Hubin. No nationality is published for the company secretary. Every current officer uses the company’s registered office as a correspondence address; that is a service address and not a residential one. All five directors are shown as having completed the identity-verification requirements introduced for UK company officers, Mr Hubin’s having been verified by an authorised corporate service provider on 27 February 2026.
Recent officer changes
- Emily Mary Chiverton ceased to be a director on 1 September 2025 and Alexis Philippon was appointed a director on the same date; both changes were filed on 2 September 2025 (forms TM01 and AP01).
- Mark Andrew Chesson ceased to be company secretary on 24 July 2025 and Erin Elizabeth Schaffner was appointed company secretary on that date, filed 21 August 2025 (forms TM02 and AP03).
- Ms Schaffner’s secretaryship ended on 3 November 2025, when Emma Howes was appointed company secretary; both changes were filed on 5 November 2025. Ms Schaffner remains a director.
Data availability
Officer information for the United Kingdom is full: Companies House publishes current and former appointments with appointment and resignation dates, role, month and year of birth, nationality and country of residence, free of charge. Two defects in the baseline data should be noted. The stored officer list holds 45 of the 48 appointments and omits three of them, including Mr Cheval’s current directorship — so the five records it marks active leave out the chair, while none of those five has in fact resigned. The other two omissions are a second directorship held by Jean-Jacques Lebel between 1 September 2013 and 10 March 2015, and Ms Schaffner’s 2025 company secretaryship; appointments, not people, are what has to be counted against the register. Separately, Companies House records seven of the oldest appointments as made “before 28 June 1991”, a boundary of the electronic register rather than a date; the stored data converts that qualifier into exact dates of 28 June 1991 or 25 June 1992, a precision the register never asserted.
Sources
- Companies House, officers of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED (00271555) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/officers. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- Companies House, filing history (forms TM01, AP01, TM02 and AP03 filed 2 September 2025, 21 August 2025 and 5 November 2025) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- L’Oréal (U.K.) Limited, Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025, Directors’ Report, filed 25 April 2026 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
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Group Structure
Group structure of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED is not independent. Note 28 of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 states that its immediate parent undertaking is L’Oréal S.A. and that L’Oréal S.A. is also its ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party, and that L’Oréal S.A. is the parent of both the largest and the smallest group of undertakings to consolidate these statements — wording that positively excludes an intermediate consolidating holding company. The Companies House PSC register reaches the same conclusion from the other side: it records L’Oréal S.A. as the only registrable legal entity, and a registrable legal entity is the first such entity in the chain, so the holding is direct. The company has one direct subsidiary, the non-trading Two Five Five Limited, and one verified sister company in the United Kingdom, Aesop UK Limited. The structure above this company sits in France; the verified relationships below and beside it are registered in England and Wales. The information is dated 31 December 2025 for the accounts and 29 September 2026 for the register readings.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L’Oréal S.A. | France | 632 012 100 (RCS Paris) | Immediate parent and ultimate parent / controlling party; sole registrable PSC | Ownership of 75% or more of shares and of voting rights (PSC register); register extract shows 406,132,841 of the 406,132,842 issued ordinary shares | Active; listed on Euronext Paris, ISIN FR0000120321 | PSC notified 6 Apr 2016; accounts note 28 at 31 Dec 2025 |
| Two Five Five Limited | England and Wales | 10277335 | Direct subsidiary | 100% of ordinary share capital | Active; described in the accounts as not trading | Accounts note 13 at 31 Dec 2025; PSC notified 13 Jul 2016 |
| Aesop UK Limited | England and Wales | 05192303 | Fellow subsidiary (same ultimate parent) | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | Aesop UK Limited accounts note 20 at 31 Dec 2024 |
L’Oréal S.A. is a société anonyme with its registered office at 14 rue Royale, 75008 Paris and its headquarters at 41 rue Martre, 92117 Clichy, and carries the legal entity identifier 529900JI1GG6F7RKVI53. Two Five Five Limited was incorporated on 13 July 2016 and shares this company’s registered office; its own PSC register names L’Oreal (U.K.) Limited, registration number 271555, as its sole person with significant control from that date, which corroborates the 100% holding disclosed in note 13. Aesop UK Limited’s own accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 state that its parent and ultimate parent company is L’Oréal S.A., which is what makes it a sister company rather than a subsidiary of this one.
Recent structural changes
- On 1 October 2025 Aesop UK Limited transferred its UK retail business to L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED. This was a transfer of a trade and its net assets between entities under common control, not a purchase of shares in Aesop UK Limited, which remains a separate active company. Note 18 of the 2025 accounts records the consideration as £34,234,000, paid to Aesop UK Limited on 21 November 2025, against trade and net assets with a book value of £5,096,000, the £29,138,000 difference being taken to the merger reserve. Aesop UK Limited’s own accounts describe the same transfer.
- Earlier intra-group business transfers into this company are recorded in the same merger reserve note: the assets and liabilities of YSL Beauté Limited on 1 July 2009, of IT Cosmetics Limited on 1 July 2018 and 8 January 2019, and of Azzaro Mugler Beauté Limited on 1 January 2021.
Data availability
Corporate linkage for this company is full upwards and downwards: the parent is stated in the audited accounts and independently on the PSC register, and the single subsidiary is named with its percentage in the accounts and confirmed on its own PSC register. Two limitations apply. The stored corporate tree holds 229 nodes rooted on a French “L’OREAL” node, carries no ownership percentage on any node, and places this company at depth one with two children; only one of those, Two Five Five Limited, is supported by a filing. The other, a node named “L’OREAL (UK) LIMITED” and tagged to Ireland, matches nothing in the accounts, which disclose exactly one subsidiary undertaking — the company’s Irish connection in its own filings is a sales destination in the turnover note, not a disclosed Irish subsidiary. The Irish Companies Registration Office search returned HTTP 403 to automated access on 29 September 2026, so no Irish registration could be checked either way, and nothing here should be read as evidence that one does or does not exist.
Sources
- L’Oréal (U.K.) Limited, Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025, notes 13, 18 and 28, filed 25 April 2026 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- Companies House, persons with significant control, L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED (00271555) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00271555/persons-with-significant-control. Notified 6 April 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- Companies House, persons with significant control, TWO FIVE FIVE LIMITED (10277335) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10277335/persons-with-significant-control. Notified 13 July 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- Aesop UK Limited (05192303), Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024, notes 20 and 23, filed 19 December 2025 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05192303/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- L’Oréal, 2025 Universal Registration Document, sections 7.1 and 7.5 (registration number, LEI, ISIN and market), published March 2026 — https://www.loreal-finance.com/system/files/2026-03/LOREAL_DEU_2025_EN.pdf. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED do?
L'OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED sells and distributes beauty products — hair care, make-up, fragrance and skincare — in the United Kingdom and Ireland, reporting through four divisions: Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, Luxe and Professional Products. Its registered SIC codes are 46450 (wholesale of perfume and cosmetics) and 47750 (retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores).
Who owns L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED?
The filed statement of capital records 406,132,842 issued ordinary shares of £0.25 each. The stored register extract shows L'Oréal S.A. holding 406,132,841 of them, with the single remaining share held by the French group company SPARLYS.
Who is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No natural person is registered as a person with significant control of L'OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED. The only active PSC entry is the corporate one for L'Oréal S.A., a company listed on Euronext Paris, so the UK chain stops there and no individual beneficial owner is registrable; the Bettencourt Meyers family's 34.79% and Nestlé's 20.16% at 31 December 2025 are holdings in that listed parent, not verified beneficial ownership of the UK company.
What is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's company registration number?
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's registration number is 00271555, filed with Companies House in United Kingdom. Its current status on the register is active.
Is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED still an active company?
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's status on Companies House is listed as active.
When was L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED incorporated?
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED was incorporated on 24 December 1932, according to Companies House.
What is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's registered address?
The registered address on file for L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED is London, United Kingdom.
What legal structure is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED registered as?
L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED is registered as a Private limited company (Ltd.) in United Kingdom.
What is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED's revenue?
In its own audited accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 the company reported turnover of £1,621.8 million (2024: £1,558.8 million), operating profit of £256.1 million and profit for the year of £194.2 million, with an average of 3,477 employees. These are company-level figures: the L'Oréal group's consolidated 2025 sales of €44,052 million are a group figure and are not this company's revenue.
Is L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED listed on a stock exchange?
The company is a private limited company and none of its securities is admitted to trading on any stock exchange. Its parent, L'Oréal S.A., is listed on Euronext Paris under ISIN FR0000120321.
Who are the officers/directors of L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED?
Companies House records 48 officer appointments for the company, of which six were current on 29 September 2026: directors Thierry Cheval (chair), Madeleine Haden, Olivier Hubin, Erin Schaffner and Alexis Philippon, and company secretary Emma Howes, appointed 3 November 2025.
Does L’OREAL (U.K.) LIMITED have a parent company or subsidiaries?
L'Oréal S.A. (RCS Paris 632 012 100) is both the immediate and the ultimate parent and controlling party, holding directly rather than through an intermediate holding company. The company has one direct subsidiary, the non-trading Two Five Five Limited (England and Wales 10277335, 100%), and a UK sister company, Aesop UK Limited (05192303), whose retail business it bought on 1 October 2025.
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