Sephora

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Sephora

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legal form Société par actions simplifiées
founding 1969
Seat Paris , France
management David Vercruysse
Number of employees 25,000 (2012)
sales 2.8 billion . EUR (2010)
Branch Cosmetics, perfumery
Website http://www.sephora.fr

Sephora is a French cosmetics chain, founded in 1969. With around 300 brands on offer, in addition to the house brand, Sephora offers beauty products such as makeup, skin care , perfume , nail polish and hair care. Sephora has been part of the luxury conglomerate LVMH since 1997 . The Sephora logo is a white “S” shaped flame on a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah ( Greek Σεπφώρα Sepphōra ), the most beautiful woman of Moses .

Sephora, Toronto Eaton Center , Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sephora branch in Plaisir near Paris

Sephora operates more than 1,700 stores in 30 countries worldwide; 2013 sales were estimated at $ 4 billion.

Sephora in Germany

In 2017, Sephora announced that it would be opening branches in numerous German cities, although the beauty chain initially did not have any independent branches, but instead became part of the Galeria Kaufhof department store . The first German store in the Galeria Kaufhof branches opened in Munich , followed by the Rhine-Main area in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum near Frankfurt am Main . In November 2018, Sephora then opened the first self-operated flagship store in Frankfurt am Main on the Zeil . There has been a Sephora store in Cologne since July 4, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Sephora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lauren Sherman: Inside Sephora's Branded Beauty Strategy . Business of fashion.
  2. ^ Walter Loeb: Sephora: Department Stores Cannot Stop Its Global Growth . In: Forbes . Retrieved January 3, 2014. 
  3. Heather Wood Rudolph: Interview Insider: How to Get Hired at Sephora . In: Cosmopolitan , February 19, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2015. 
  4. Born, Pete: Calvin McDonald Named CEO of Sephora Americas . In: Women's Wear Daily . October 24, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  5. Sephora.com: About Us . Sephora. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  6. https://www.top-magazin-frankfurt.de/news/sephora-erobert-frankfurt/
  7. Huda Kattan disappoints her fans in Frankfurt at the opening of the first Sephora flagship store . In: Top Magazin Frankfurt . November 19, 2018 ( top-magazin-frankfurt.de [accessed November 21, 2018]).