Estee Lauder posts loss of $17.9 million

An inside source tells FOX411 that Gwyneth Paltrow has secret plans to shift her public image and become the next Martha Stewart. She wants to create her own lifestyle brands for women and families and cut back to doing one movie per year. Husband and Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin has even dubbed Gwyneth's appointments to plan her takeover of the lifestyle sector her "Martha Stewart meetings"!

The insider, who works with paltrow, tells FOX411, "Her plan is to stay visible in the occasional film, but to create products for real women. She is working on new products for her own beauty line under Estee Lauder and looking at different products for moms at home that she can tie to her website, GOOP."

This from  Kaiser  via Celebitchy.com

Anyway, Fox News 411 is reporting that Gwyneth’s next step to becoming the snottier, goopier version of Martha is to launch a series of Goop-branded products. Part of the Goop brand will be beauty products, launched under the Estee Lauder umbrella. Which means that Gwyneth probably isn’t mad about the weird circumstances surrounding the loss of her Estee Lauder modeling contract - it was probably mutual, and Gwyneth remained friends with the Lauder women. Gwyneth also wants a “Goop For Moms” brand that she can sell through her website, or as Fox’s source says, she wants “to create products for real women.” Oh, barf. In Goopy’s mind, “real women” = fat peasants.

Here is a listing of all of Estee Lauder's cosmetic brands holdings

Almay • American Beauty • Anoo's • Artistry • Aveda • Avon • Bath & Body Works • Biotherm • Bobbi Brown • The Body Shop • Bonne Bell • Burt's Bees • Cargo • Carol's Daughter • Clarins • Clinique • CoverGirl • Creme 21 • Daigaku Honyaku Center • Dr. Hauschka • Eden Allure • Elizabeth Arden • Estée Lauder • Fabergé • Hard Candy • Helena Rubinstein • Kanebo Ltd. • Kao Corporation • Kevyn Aucoin • Kiehl's • Lancôme • Laneige • Laura Mercier • Lise Watier • L'Oréal • L'occitane • Love Cosmetics • Lush • MAC Cosmetics • Mary Kay • Max Factor • Maybelline • ModelCo • Nars • Natural Wonder • Neal's Yard Remedies • Neutrogena • Nexxus • Nivea • Open Sundaes • Oriflame • Origins • Red Earth • Revlon • Richard Hudnut • Rimmel • Sephora • Shiseido • Shu Uemura • SK-II • Stila • Tom Ford Beauty • Trish McEvoy • Ulta • Urban Decay • Vichy • Victoria's Secret • Wella



The only products I care for is Lancome, L'Oreal (really Lancome but made here in the USA), Shiseido, Shu Uemera and of course,  MAC.  Lise Watier is a great brand of drugstore cosmetics I always snapped up when in Quebec.  Great lip and eye pencils.  Every other company is sort of out dated and has been replaced by superior cottagey type brands.




Sorry, but Bath & Body Works and The Body Shop have lame ass chemistry backing them.  Kevyn Aucoin is dead.  Kiehl's needs to come up to the times.  They were great 10 years ago but now...meh.  Hard Candy has great packaging but too pricey for this economy.  Victoria's Secret pales in comparison to other brands and depends on fragrance, not the actual quality of the products.  Clarins has had too many clunkers in their line and seemed innovative at the time but I've never been WOWED by them.  So I'd say the Estee Lauder conglomerate has only a handful of classic investments.  Adding GOOPY is not gonna help.  They need to remember...Americans never forget.


Hard Candy Eye Palette Quad

Apparently, either do Palestinians...

Since at least February, 2001, Estée Lauder and its brands have been the target of a boycott campaign. The boycott has been led by pro-Palestinian actvists who have targeted the corporation because of the pro-Israel activities of Ronald Lauder.^[3][4] In June 2003, the San Francisco-based Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) took up the boycott with their "Estee Slaughter" campaign.^[5] The boycott has generated an anti-boycott campaign by supporters of Israel.^[6]

Here's a listing of their other holders.  Including Coach.  I've always been a Mark Cross person myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A9e_Lauder_Companies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A9e_Lauder_Companies