| Local communities |
Local communities Purpose of stakeholder dialogue
- Strengthening the link between the business world and non-profits representing local communities;
- Staying attentive to current and future expectations, needs and concerns, as well as confirmed and potential impacts;
- Identifying levers for action to be put in place with non-profits representing local communities.
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Local communities Examples of initiatives completed or implemented and awards in 2025
- Participation by 28,700 employees across 73 countries in Citizen Day, a day dedicated to volunteering during paid working time, benefiting 680 non-profits for 1,070 outreach initiatives;
- Commitment by the Group to combating food waste, in line with the French national objective of achieving further reductions in food waste: 6,571 meals were donated in 2025 by the Group's company restaurants to non-profits such as Restos du Cœur or Le Chaînon Manquant, and 259 meals were sold to employees via “too good to go” type platforms.
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| Scientific community, including researchers and academics |
Scientific community, including researchers and academics Purpose of stakeholder dialogue
- Incorporating scientific and academic insight into the Group's strategy and decision-making processes;
- Implementing new technology and innovation to accelerate the transformation of the Group and its value chain.
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Scientific community, including researchers and academics Examples of initiatives completed or implemented and awards in 2025
- Collaboration with numerous public and private research centres worldwide(1) in diverse areas such as green chemistry, life cycle analysis, synthetic biology, genomics, skin stem cells, microfluidics, bioprinting and microbiomes;
- Founding member of the Advanced Biotech for Sustainability Consortium and contributor to the first report, "Harnessing the economic and environmental benefits of advanced biotechnology";
- Participation by Group researchers in the implementation of sustainable agricultural practices through the development of evaluation methods. A methodology known as the Field Cultivation Index (FCI) was developed for this purpose with an expert from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE). Implementing sustainable practices also involves field projects, carried out with the CIRAD agricultural research centre, particularly in our palm operations in Indonesia. Lastly, ecosystem health measures are being put in place, in particular with the start-up Genesis, to gain a better understanding of soil health in our supply chains, and working methods and knowledge of minerals (accessibility, extraction processes, availability, etc.) are being developed with institutes such as BRGM(2) ;
- Collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal and the International Reference Center for Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition (CIRAIG), along with the Université du Québec à Montréal and other industry partners, through the International Research Consortium on Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition, which aims to implement strategies to accelerate the decarbonisation process and to develop new methodologies and databases to assess the environmental impact of organisations and products;
- Collaboration with consultancies specialising in measuring biodiversity footprints, such as I CARE, to create innovative approaches that can be applied to different areas (organisation, product, agricultural commodity, etc.), and with Quantis, a consulting firm specialising in environmental strategy, to create a methodology for assessing water-related pressures across the entire value chain by updating the usual water footprint and integrating green water in particular;
- Collaboration with Le Mans University to develop innovative methods for easily assessing polymer degradation and biodegradability;
- Working with Biotechmar to assess the ecotoxicity of substances and formulas in the marine environment;
- Within the International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety, contribution to the development of innovative non animal-based methods for assessing the human and environmental safety of ingredients and products: development of methods for assessing the persistence and bio-accumulation of cosmetic ingredients, potential endocrine-disrupting effects and consumer and environmental exposure;
- L'Oréal teamed up with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to launch a sustainable innovation accelerator, dubbed "L'AcceleratOR". The programme aims to identify, test and deploy breakthrough technologies that meet the sustainability challenges of the cosmetics industry. In terms of funding, €100 million has been allocated to the project over five years;
- Under the impetus of its Dermatological Beauty Division, the Group launched the L’Oréal Act for Dermatology programme, which has been allocated funding of €20 million. In partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) and the International Alliance of Dermatology Patient Organizations (also known as GlobalSkin), this programme aims to improve access to healthy skin.
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