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L’Oréal’s first-half growth showed beauty demand retaining unusual resilience globally. European sales, professional haircare, dermatological products, and ecommerce supported higher revenue, profit, and operating margin.
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Gucci’s second-quarter improvement strengthened Kering’s emerging luxury turnaround case. New products, North American growth, store closures, and tighter inventories reduced the brand’s comparable sales decline to 2%.
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Rathbones faces sustained remediation costs after further first-half client outflows. The wealth manager is balancing a £60m regulatory programme, onboarding restrictions, and lower fee income from client cash.
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Two major carbon frameworks will become one global corporate standard. The GHG Protocol and ISO plan to harmonise emissions accounting, reducing duplicated reporting while confronting unresolved Scope 2 questions.
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Airbus delivered stronger earnings as aircraft production regained operating momentum. First-half revenue, profit, deliveries, and defence orders increased, although higher output continued to absorb working capital across the group.
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X and advertisers have closed a defining brand safety dispute. The settlement ends litigation over GARM but leaves brands and platforms without the industry’s former common framework for harmful content controls.
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The FRC wants annual reports focused more tightly on materiality. Boards are being urged to remove immaterial disclosure clutter while retaining information that genuinely informs investor decisions.
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Corporate carbon accounting is progressing towards one consolidated global framework. GHG Protocol and ISO are combining major workstreams as companies prepare for revised Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3, and market instrument rules.
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Consumer borrowing accelerated while mortgage lending rebounded sharply during June. Annual unsecured-credit growth reached 9.1%, but weaker house-purchase approvals left a mixed picture for household demand and the property market.
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Financial services employers face sharper scrutiny over workforce conduct controls. New FCA misconduct rules increase pressure on rescreening programmes.