Sephora
Sephora is a French multinational retailer of personal care and beauty products with nearly 340 brands,[3] along with its own private label, Sephora Collection, and includes beauty products such as cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, nail color, beauty tools, body lotions, and haircare.
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41 Rue Ybry, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
47°08′30″N 2°15′35″E / 47.141791°N 2.2598276°E
2,600+ stores[1]
34 countries worldwide
Guillaume Motte (CEO)
Over US$10 billion (2019) (estimated)[2]
The company was founded in Limoges in 1969[4] and is currently based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.[5] Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1996.[6][7] The name comes from the Greek word meaning beauty, sephos, and the Greek spelling of Zipporah (Greek: Σεπφώρα, Sepphōra), wife of Moses.[8]
Lawsuits[edit]
On 18 November 2014, four customers filed a class action lawsuit against Sephora.[57] The suit alleges that Sephora engaged in racial discrimination by wrongfully deactivating the customer rewards accounts of Asian customers under the pretense that these customers were buying products from Sephora in bulk and reselling them.[58][59] Sephora identified accounts to deactivate by looking at email domains from @qq.com (owned by Tencent), @126.com, or @163.com (both owned by NetEase).[60]