L’Oréal plans to double its India business and expand manufacturing, showing the country’s rising beauty market potential. With strong local demand and growing exports, India will now play a central role in the brand’s wider Asia growth strategy.
L’Oréal has announced plans to more than double its business in India in the coming years. The company will also expand its manufacturing facilities in the country. This move shows India’s rising role in the global beauty and personal care industry. The country’s growing importance in the industry also continues to attract multinational brands.
At present, L’Oréal manufactures around 500 million units in India every year. These include hair care and skin care products. Many of these are sold in India, while others are exported, mainly to Gulf countries. The company now aims to increase production volumes even further in the coming years.
L’Oréal India is a fully owned arm of the French beauty giant L’Oréal SA. It has been operating in India since 1994. The brand offers products across many categories, like mass-market, salons, luxury, and pharma retail.
Its popular mass-market brands include L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York, and NYX Professional Makeup. The salon line includes L’Oréal Professionnel, Matrix, Kerastase, and Redken. In the luxury segment, L’Oréal sells Kiehl’s, Lancome, and Yves Saint Laurent. CeraVe is its key brand in the pharmaceutical space.
The announcement came during a visit by India’s Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal, to France. He met L’Oréal’s top leadership to promote trade and investment. Goyal also met Renault Group’s CEO to discuss India’s growth in the electric vehicle sector.
L’Oréal’s decision supports its strategy to tap into India’s growing consumer base, modern beauty trends, and export strength. It aims to make India a key hub in its wider Asia strategy.
From the leadership desk
According to Nicolas Hieronimus, CEO of L’Oréal says, “India is a very strategic market for L’Oréal. We intend to more than double our business in the next couple of years, expand our factories which are today manufacturing 95 percent of what we sell in India and also exporting to the rest of the region.”